I guess it had to happen sooner or later. I've finally found a film so obscure that there is only one other rambling review on the IMDb and I couldn't find any thing else about it on the internet. Well ladies and gentlemen, I present here for your viewing pleasure my complete, authoritative, comprehensive and totally uncensored review for Terror Eyes! The only review of Terror Eyes you will ever need. It starts with an on screen caption that reads 'HOLLYWOOD Writer's Strike. No More Movies...No More Horror! What's the Devil to do?' And no, I don't know why they spelt Hollywood in capital letters. After the opening credits have played we find a young woman named Eva Adams (co-producer Vivian Schilling) who looks like a secretary in a room sat in front of a type writer. She appears to have writers block and can't seem to type anything she is happy with. Suddenly a cloud of smoke starts to seep in through the door, and a couple of red glowing eyes appear. As if by magic she begins to type, the camera shows us the piece of paper in the type writer and it says 'Book of Life' which leads us nicely into the opening story.
This tale is set almost entirely within an apartment belonging to Troy Floyd (Lance August) and his wife Starta (Vivian Schilling, again) who are getting ready to go out and meet some friends. Someone knocks their door, they answer it and a man named Clark Rogers (Daniel Roebuck, with a dodgy moustache) gives them a book. As they read it, they discover their entire lives have been accurately portrayed within the pages, past, present and a horrifying future............
Eva Adams wakes up, it was all a nightmare. Her husband Richard (Daniel Roebuck, without dodgy moustache this time) complains that they need to be up early tomorrow to go camping with their friends. Eva complains right back saying her boss has told her it's up to her to write a horror film because of the writer's strike, and that she can't remember her nightmare so she can't use that. The next morning Eva and Richard set of in their van and pick their friends up, Julie (Gina Hightower), Mannie (Dan Bell), Scott Parker (Lance August, again) and April (Becky McGovern). Once deep into the woods they set up camp and decide to try and help Eva by telling scary stories. Which leads us into the second story called 'Perfect Alibi'.
Mannie (Dan Bell, again) is a small time crook who owes a loan shark named Mike (Christopher Roland) some money. Mike gives him the opportunity to pay his debt off by robbing his ex-wife's (Elinor Baggett) house. He says they will spilt the loot 50/50. After Mannie has set himself up with an alibi he breaks into her house and finds her dead on the floor. He finds himself reliving the same night over and over again, only changing slightly each time. Mannie tries to use this to his advantage but just after he thinks he has the perfect alibi something rather unexpected happens that he hadn't seen coming...........
Back round the camp fire and it's on with our third and final story called 'Snake Eyes'.
Alex Bender (Diana James) has just beaten an opponent (Paul Caruso) to become the worlds first female champion chess player. Soon after facing the press she is kidnapped by her chauffeur (Gary Hodgson) and taken to an isolated mansion owned by Martin Rubenstein (Phil Lowey) president of the Rubenstein game corporation who make violent video games like 'slasher' where the object is to kill and rape as many people as possible and get the high score. Alex is a very outspoken critic of the Rubenstein corporation. Now Alex must play a deadly real life game that only one can win, and the price for defeat is death............
The film then switches back to the camp and rounds off with a couple of silly twist endings. Each segment have their own set of credits. The first segment and the wrap around story appear to be co-written and directed by Eric Parkinson, who also has a small role in the film as a T.V. reporter at the end. The second segment was written and directed by Steve Sommers and 'student produced at university of Southern California'. The third story has Micheal Rissi credited as writer and director and was 'student produced at USG', and also features footage playing 'under' the credits not found in the actual film. What this film appears to be is three student made films all stuck together with a wrap around story. It would be interesting to know what grades these films got! It's generally quite poorly made with bad acting, effects, music and production design. But I must admit I quite liked the individual stories, especially the third one 'Snake Eyes'. There's not much blood or gore, a melted face, a few gunshot wounds and a sequence in which a large snake eats a rat. Difficult to recommend as it's technically so rough around the edges, but I felt it wasn't a complete waste of my time. A+ for effort, E- for execution.
This tale is set almost entirely within an apartment belonging to Troy Floyd (Lance August) and his wife Starta (Vivian Schilling, again) who are getting ready to go out and meet some friends. Someone knocks their door, they answer it and a man named Clark Rogers (Daniel Roebuck, with a dodgy moustache) gives them a book. As they read it, they discover their entire lives have been accurately portrayed within the pages, past, present and a horrifying future............
Eva Adams wakes up, it was all a nightmare. Her husband Richard (Daniel Roebuck, without dodgy moustache this time) complains that they need to be up early tomorrow to go camping with their friends. Eva complains right back saying her boss has told her it's up to her to write a horror film because of the writer's strike, and that she can't remember her nightmare so she can't use that. The next morning Eva and Richard set of in their van and pick their friends up, Julie (Gina Hightower), Mannie (Dan Bell), Scott Parker (Lance August, again) and April (Becky McGovern). Once deep into the woods they set up camp and decide to try and help Eva by telling scary stories. Which leads us into the second story called 'Perfect Alibi'.
Mannie (Dan Bell, again) is a small time crook who owes a loan shark named Mike (Christopher Roland) some money. Mike gives him the opportunity to pay his debt off by robbing his ex-wife's (Elinor Baggett) house. He says they will spilt the loot 50/50. After Mannie has set himself up with an alibi he breaks into her house and finds her dead on the floor. He finds himself reliving the same night over and over again, only changing slightly each time. Mannie tries to use this to his advantage but just after he thinks he has the perfect alibi something rather unexpected happens that he hadn't seen coming...........
Back round the camp fire and it's on with our third and final story called 'Snake Eyes'.
Alex Bender (Diana James) has just beaten an opponent (Paul Caruso) to become the worlds first female champion chess player. Soon after facing the press she is kidnapped by her chauffeur (Gary Hodgson) and taken to an isolated mansion owned by Martin Rubenstein (Phil Lowey) president of the Rubenstein game corporation who make violent video games like 'slasher' where the object is to kill and rape as many people as possible and get the high score. Alex is a very outspoken critic of the Rubenstein corporation. Now Alex must play a deadly real life game that only one can win, and the price for defeat is death............
The film then switches back to the camp and rounds off with a couple of silly twist endings. Each segment have their own set of credits. The first segment and the wrap around story appear to be co-written and directed by Eric Parkinson, who also has a small role in the film as a T.V. reporter at the end. The second segment was written and directed by Steve Sommers and 'student produced at university of Southern California'. The third story has Micheal Rissi credited as writer and director and was 'student produced at USG', and also features footage playing 'under' the credits not found in the actual film. What this film appears to be is three student made films all stuck together with a wrap around story. It would be interesting to know what grades these films got! It's generally quite poorly made with bad acting, effects, music and production design. But I must admit I quite liked the individual stories, especially the third one 'Snake Eyes'. There's not much blood or gore, a melted face, a few gunshot wounds and a sequence in which a large snake eats a rat. Difficult to recommend as it's technically so rough around the edges, but I felt it wasn't a complete waste of my time. A+ for effort, E- for execution.