Eye of the Storm (1991)

Director
Yuri Zeltser

Main cast
Lara Flynn Boyle; Bruce Gray; Bradley Gregg; Dennis Hopper; Ally Walker

Genres
Thriller, Romance

Description
At a highway gas station/motel/diner where they live, two young brothers witness their parents murder. The younger brother is blinded in the same incident. Ten years later both brothers are still there and the tragedy may have turned one of them psychotic. When the abusive Gladstone and his young and sexy wife are stranded at the gas station it brings out the worst in everyone.


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