Chillers (1987)

Chillers (1987)
Director: Daniel Boyd
Writer: Daniel Boyd
Cast: Jesse Emery, Marjorie Fitzsimmons, Laurie Pennington
While waiting for their bus, five passengers have just had horrible nightmares and decide to tell them to each other to help killing time. A swimmer, who has lessons in a swimming pool with a dead swimmer, tells the first one. A young boy, who goes camping with two friends and a crazy man as a leader, is the next. Then, a lonely woman, who has an infatuation with the anchor of a late night show, and finds that he is indeed a vampire. A young man, who finds he has the gift of bringing dead people back to life, brings a cold blood criminal back to life. Last, a skeptic professor of anthropology tells to his students about an evil Spanish creature from the Middle Ages called "Ixpe", and a young woman embodies it. When the bus arrives, they have a huge surprise.

Substandard anthology horror about a set of bored passengers retelling their nightmares while waiting for a connection in a bus stop. The first tales about a woman being stalked in a swimming pool by a guy who died in a divining accident five years before. Next is a tale about a scout being stalked by a crazed camp leader during a weekend camping trip. The third follows a lonely woman who fantasizes about a TV news reader, he later turns out to be a vampire. The fourth follows a man who gains the gift of bringing people back from the dead, only he ends up bringing an axe murderer back by mistake. The final tale follows a professor who gives a college lecture about an ancient evil creature, only one student becomes possessed. The film wraps with the passengers getting on their bus, only their destination is not where they expected to be heading.

Really poor offering from Troma this, they were clearly aiming for something like Creepshow but Chillers tales are as mild as those from the children television series Goosebumps.

(4 out of 10)