Terror Eyes (1989)

"You cook a wild weenie, dude." - Richard

A sort-of anthology of weird tales within a weird movie.
Starring: Vivian Schilling, Daniel Roebuck, Lance August, Dan Bell, Gina Hightower

Link to IMDB

I'm starting to regret this Bottom of the Barrel idea... Here's Exhibit #4

Eva

This movie is so poorly put together I must explain the format before anything else...
Eva is a writer trying to come up with some new ideas for horror movies, and each of her three ideas gets played out for us to see. The first story is about a married couple that find a book that has the details of their entire lives written in it, and this all-knowing power tears their peaceful home apart.
What's so odd is that you think this evil book story is the actual movie, and it's not until 20 minutes in that we first meet Eva and learn it was all in her head.
Basically, the entire premise shits the bed on how it presents itself.

Oh, and apparently Satan has taken an interest in Eva's stories, so he's haunting her dreams or something... Damn, Satan must be bored.

Anyways, Eva and her husband Richard go camping for the weekend with a group of friends, and as everyone sits around the camp fire they begin to tell scary stories. Two of the stories comprise the remainder of the movie, but at least now they make sense in context of this being an anthology of multiple stories.
Satan possesses Richard so that he can hang-out with the campers and hear the stories firsthand... It's basically just an excuse to let Daniel Roebuck ham it up and be a creep.

Richard                                      Satan

The first story is about a small time crook that gets caught in a time loop, and the second story is about a chess player that has to survive a deadly game in a human-sized rat maze.
These tales aren't too terrible and have some intrigue, mostly coming across like cheap episodes of The Twilight Zone, but they are nothing special or original.

This was the highlight...
You've now seen the best part of Terror Eyes

Setting aside the annoying fact that it takes about 40 minutes before the anthology format becomes clear, the biggest flaw here is boredom. The only original idea is having Satan get involved, but even that is more obnoxious than it is humorous.

Be sure not to miss:
- The "Slasher" video game looks insane.
- Who takes a VCR camping? Especially without a TV?
- Rats enough!

Internet review:
"It's hypnotically bad, but not always in a good way." - FoxyBoo

Should I watch it?
Not worth it.

Where can I find it?
Here on YouTube.

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