Byron
La historia arranca en 1979, cuando el cineasta Trent Harris se encuentra con ferviente soñador en un parking de Salt Lake City. Harris le ofrece la oportunidad de dar el salto cuando le invita a acompañarle a la ciudad de Beaver para filmar un show de talentos.
Junkman
A boy finds an old sailor and an ironbound submarine in a junkyard.
Milt
Joseph Gainer is a high priced attorney, notorious for getting guilty criminals off the hook. But Gainer is forced to take another look at the price you pay for defending the guilty when he takes on a case of three young men accused of a heinous crime. And when he discovers that his ex-wife is the prosecuting attorney, Gainer finds he suddenly has more on the line than he ever imagined.
Review Board Chairman
El agente Jack de la policía de San Francisco lleva cinco años investigando a un presunto jefe del crimen organizado llamado El Témpano, pero, después de un tiroteo en el que resulta muerto un inocente, es suspendido del servicio por Asuntos Internos. Entonces sólo tendrá 48 horas para encontrar a El Témpano.
Mike
Three women plot to catch wealthy husbands by throwing a party at a mansion to which they have temporary access. Obvious love stories follow involving an ex-ballplayer, a secretly wealthy mechanic and an ad exec.
Rupert
A female cop goes undercover as a dancer at an old theater to catch a serial killer who has been murdering women auditioning for a musical.
Lt. Avery Bonhomme (segment "Creatures of Habit")
Terrifying Tales contains three independently-produced shorts running about 20 minutes apiece. Only one of the three; Paul Bunnell's "Final Destination: Unknown" (copyrighted 1989), is actually horror. The other two; Armand Garabidian's "Ten Seconds to Countdown" (copyrighted 1986) and Ephraim Schwartz's "Creatures of Habit" (also 1986), are, respectively, science fiction and drama with only slight mystery components. The three used here are connected only in that they were shorts made by UCLA graduate students. Sadly, none of them is very good. The opening title screens and closing credits have been left intact for each.
Video Store Clerk
Un niño de doce años está de canguro de su hermanita. De repente, viendo un video alquilado, un extraño personaje sale de la pantalla, coge la niña y se la lleva dentro del televisor. Su hermano, Andy Colby, irá tras ella.
A bordello catering to rich and wealthy clients, run by Lil Hutton experiences a series of crises as one girl ends up pregnant, and another dead. As a subplot, a young woman, Julie Taylor, makes a trip to LA to surprise a friend, but never finds her. Julie is mugged, and seeks help from Lil Hutton. She sees how much the prostitutes are making, and is tempted into the lifestyle. On her first "job" is hired by a rich father for his 18-year old virgin son as a birthday gift, and they fall in love. But the relationship comes to a quick end as soon as the son learns she is a "whore"; Julie breaks down and runs off after realizing prostitution is a cold and loveless occupation that cannot fulfill her emotional emptiness.
Byron
Larry (Crispin Glover) organizes a talent show in an attempt to get on TV but the small town of Orkly, Idaho, isn't ready for his Olivia Newton-John impersonation.
