Spencer Charnas is the lead vocalist and songwriter of the metalcore band Ice Nine Kills. He stars as a fictional version of himself in the Silver Scream music videos, where he serves as the main villainous protagonist.
Biography (Silver Scream timeline)[]
Part 1: The American Nightmare[]
Spencer Charnas, lead singer of the metalcore band Ice Nine Kills, attends a meeting with his new therapist, Dr. Ian Black. He tells him that he has been having recent nightmares and, when asked, recaps his most recent one, which involves a girl (whom Spencer says resembles Ian's receptionist, Karen) being hunted by what Spencer describes as a "dream demon", whom is able to attack her in her dreams and whom has been the cause of various apparent teen "suicides" throughout the girl's local suburbs, which include that of the girl's best friend. After the girl realizes that she can pull the dream demon into the real world, she springs a plan to kill the entity in her sleep with a baseball bat, but Spencer says that this is the part of his dream where he always wakes up. Dr. Black gets Spencer to agree to months of expensive therapy and tells him to get some diazepam from his colleague, a psychiatrist named Dr. Nancy Stonebridge. Based on his violent dream, Ian thinks Spencer may be a budding psychopathic murderer and considers writing a book about it if that happens to be the case.
Part 2: Thank God It's Friday[]
The second music video beings with a news report, where reporter Roy Merkin states that seven people were murdered at a Texas summer camp by an unidentified man with a machete. Spencer, whom had just gone to Texas as part of a tour with the rest of the band, then attends another meeting with Ian, where he inform him that the nightmares have been continuing, even with the diazepam. Spencer says that this time, the nightmares have been different, and that they involve him, his bandmates and two girls who resemble Karen and Dr. Stonebridge shutting down a camp for the off-season, only for all of them to be slaughtered one-by-one by a man in a hockey mask. After describing the nightmare, Ian suggests to Spencer that he should try and find the root cause of the nightmares. After the session ends, Spencer leaves to attend a recording session in Los Angeles, and Ian goes to talk to Nancy about his suspicions regarding Spencer being a murderer. Unbeknownst to them, however, Spencer secretly spies on them during their conversation.
Part 3: A Grave Mistake[]
With his suspicions becoming stronger, Ian follows Spencer into a bar in Massachusetts. After he gets distracted, Spencer slips drugs in Ian's drink, and upon drinking it, Ian becomes light-headed and stumbles outside the bar. There, he witnesses two muggers harassing a young woman, before a man in make-up resembling Spencer appears and saves her, brutally killing the muggers in the process before Ian passes out. Ian is found by the bartender when he reawakens, but when he tries to describe what he saw, the bartender accuses him of being drunk and angrily forces him to leave. The next morning, Dr. Black watches the news and sees a report involving two men being found dead, with their bodies 'hanging from streetlights", further fueling his suspicions.
Part 4: Stabbing in the Dark[]
Prior to his next session with Spencer, Ian does some research and learns that Spencer appeared on the music scene with "seemingly no past" and that the dates and locations of Ice Nine Kills's recent tour line up with those of murders similar to the ones shown in the previous three music videos, which makes Ian's suspicions even stronger.
During the session, Ian brings up how Spencer has been seemingly unwilling to discuss his childhood in detail, and suggests that it may be the cause of the nightmares. Funnily enough, Spencer then tells Ian that his most recent nightmare features him as a child, being looked after by a babysitter resembling Dr. Stonebridge, who brings over her friends and some guys (who just so happen to be Spencer's bandmates) so they can party and do drugs. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to them, a mental asylum patient (whom Spencer refers to as "the Shadow Man") brutally kills a security guard and breaks free, donning a white mask following his escape. The Shadow Man then breaks into the house and begins to murder each of the teenagers one-by-one with a knife, and also kills a police officer whom gets brough onto the scene. The Shadow Man is then attacked and successfully subdued by Spencer's babysitter, but the nightmare apparently ends with a traumatised young Spencer taking a knife and stabbing the babysitter to death. Following the session, Ian does some more research and learns that events described in the dream actually happened in real life back in 1994, with an unidentified 9-year-old boy its sole survivor.
Part 5: IT is the End[]
Following a concert during an INK tour, Spencer shows up unusually late to the bus waiting to take them to their next location. INK guitarist Justin "JD" DeBlieck notices that Spencer has a wound on his hand, but Spencer insists that he shouldn't worry about it. Some time later, whilst researching Spencer online, Ian sees that JD and fellow INK member Justin Morrow have gone missing, and gets excited over the prospect of writing a successful book about Spencer's apparent descent into madness. All of a sudden, however, Ian is abducted by an unseen kidnapper. Ian wakes up strapped inside a mine cart ride, with Spencer and Dr. Strongebridge chained to the wall beside him. When asked about the murders, Spencer swears his innocence, before he disappears behind a revolving wall. The ride then starts up, and Ian is left to watch as a man dressed like Pennywise psychologically torments him. During the chaos, Dr. Stonebridge is killed, and after the ride ends, Spencer reveals himself as having been the real killer this whole time, spurred by desires for revenge against Ian since his negligence "ruined [his] fucking life". Is it revealed that the events of "Stabbing In The Dark" were real -- back in 1994, a young Ian who was working at the institute had carelessly released a man named Floyd Schecter, claiming he was "mentally stable". Upon being released, Floyd broke into Spencer's house and murdered his sister (the babysitter) and her friends, then, as Spencer hid under the stairs, killed his parents after they returned home, before Spencer was able to catch Floyd off-guard and stab him to death. Spencer then reveals that he injected Ian with a poison, and leaves him to die as he cleans up the crime scene. Ian is ultimately framed for the murders, and his death is labelled as a suicide. 3 weeks later, Spencer attends a session with another doctor in another therapy session.
Victims[]
- Dead Teen - Killed by Dream Demon Spencer
- Mean Mugger #1 - Stabbed in stomach
- Mean Mugger #2 - Stomped to death
- Prison Guard Martinez - Eyes thumbed out
- Dream Sister Nadia - Stabbed at least 8x by Dream Child Spencer
- 4 Circus Corpses - Seen dead along Spennywise's ride
- Dr. Nancy Stonebridge - Stomach torn open by an evil clown face
- Dr. Ian Black - Poisoned by Spencer
Deaths[]
Thank God It's Friday[]
They went to a boat when Jason follows them into the lake. Jason is super mad that he didn't get the chance to kill them and walks off. The next day, Spencer and Nadia were sleeping in the floating boat, when Jason pops up in the water and drowns the both of them. Back at the therapist room, Spencer leaves Dr. Black's room for his next show in Los Angeles. Before he did that, Spencer spy on Dr. Black, listening to him on the microphone he planned in the office and wrote down all the things he said.
A Grave Mistake[]
With the song and music video being based off of The Crow, Spencer is shown filling in for the role of Eric Draven, and his "murder" is shown briefly in a flashback that plays during the music video.