Chillers (1987), dir. Danny Boyd, Troma Entertainment
Honestly this one flew under my radar until pretty recently.
A group of different folks are mulling around in a rundown bus station late at night. Their bus is running late, so to pass the time they sit around talk and some weird dreams they have been having.
A woman tells of her hobby of swimming. She's noticed one particular swimmer who catches her eye, but what secret is he hiding?
A young boy (who really shouldn't be out by himself at night), recalls a camping trip he went on. The rest of the campers were your typical 80's stock characters, and then there's the scoutmaster (Gary Brown). He's a dorky kind of guy, but he seems to know the woods. He also seems rather fixated on the full moon, which is rising...
Another woman dreams nightly of her local anchor man. Odd that he only ever seems to work the late shift, isn't it?
A man chats about his dream next, in which he discovers he can bring the dead back to life, but only if he reads about them first. Pity he was reading about the recently executed mass murderer...
The last yarn is told by an old man. He's a teacher by trade and his dreams feature his students and why one should not read ancient texts without proper supervision.
Earnest but lord. The characters don't even qualify as flat, as that implies that they have some dimension. Cliched in all the worst ways.
