Chillers
"Chillers" was a 1990 French anthology horror series, with host Anthony Perkins presenting and screening tales based on Patricia Highsmith's short stories; that display a sinister atmosphere, and delve into the darkest depths of human nature.
- 1990-1990
- 1 season
- Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
- Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Suspense
"Chillers" was a 1990 French anthology horror series, with host Anthony Perkins presenting and screening tales based on Patricia Highsmith's short stories; that display a sinister atmosphere, and delve into the darkest depths of human nature.
Season 1 Episode Guide
12 Episodes 1990
Episode 1
A Bird Poised to Fly
53 mins
A young architect's obsession with unrequited love drives him over the edge.
Episode 2
The Cat Brought It In
52 mins
A pleasant country house weekend is interrupted when the family cat brings in a pair of human fingers instead of the usual mouse or bird. But not even murder can be allowed to disrupt the meticulous veneer of British respectability.
Episode 3
A Curious Suicide
53 mins
An American doctor in England for a conference with his spendthrift wife visits an old friend who stole the love of his life from him.
Episode 4
The Day of Reckoning
53 mins
A young man begins to have terrifying nightmares after visiting his obsessive uncle's automated chicken farm.
Episode 5
Old Folks at Home
52 mins
A yuppie couple takes in an octogenarian husband and wife from the local old folks' home, but the twosome proves to be more difficult to live with than expected.
Episode 6
Puzzle
53 mins
A philandering advertisement executive is offered a promotion if he marries one of his two girlfriends.
Episode 7
Sauce for the Goose
53 mins
A sweet-talking lounge singer charms a housewife into murdering her hotelier husband but is he truly in love with her or just out for her money?
Episode 8
Slowly, Slowly in the Wind
53 mins
Edward Skipperton is a wealthy hard-working businessman presently recovering from a recent divorce and a quadruple bypass open heart surgery. He is living in and renovating a beautiful old chateau in the Normandy region of France but has become determined to buy up the surrounding lands and river owned by Hubert de Gastine, his neighbor.
Episode 9
Something You Have to Live With
51 mins
This is the story of Jessica and Stanley, a married couple who finally achieve their dream of buying a new house. Unfortunately for them, this dream soon becomes a nightmare.
Episode 10
The Stuff of Madness
51 mins
After indulging his wife's taxidermy hobby for years, a lawyer starts to fetishize a boutique mannequin that reminds him of a former girlfriend.
Episode 11
The Thrill Seeker
53 mins
An encyclopedia proofreader escapes his loneliness by playing a twisted game involving kleptomania and assumed identities.
Episode 12
Under a Dark Angel's Eye
52 mins
Lee returns to England after a long absence to oversee the sale of his childhood home and visit the couple looking after his tyrannical mother whom he avoids seeing, but the couple's overbearing niceness may hide sinister intentions.