Chillers (1987)
Director: Daniel Boyd
Where to get it: CAV
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.
Here one lost horror anthology we have here in Chillers. And it is a film that loaded with an 80s vibe, but I think it has more of the negative sides of that decade than it does the positives. The movie opens with a dull intro and it lasts a bit before we actually get to the movie. The movie then goes from one person’s story to the next and I believe the last two are way better than our original three. In each we have some blood, not a lot. We also have some acting that starts at fair and heads down the other direction. But I would hope we would expect nothing less from a movie of this nature.
This brings us to a cheesy last shot, but I guess with what we have leading to that it is only the most fitting and appropriate way to do it. If I was a kid and I rented this one I’d probably like much more than I did here. I think it is a perfect film to play off nostalgia for fans of it who did like it as children. As far as what it brings to the table for first time viewers I think it is deeply lacking in that area. But this is an older movie put out by Troma so we should probably not expect much else than what we get.
(5/10)
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