From a Whisper to a Scream (1987)

The uncle of an executed murderess relates four stories of his hometown Oldfield to a reporter In the first an elderly man pursues a romance with a younger woman even to the grave and beyond In the second a wounded man on the run from creditors is rescued by a backwoods hermit who holds the secret to eternal life In the third a glasseating carny pays the ultimate price for looking for love on the outside And in the fourth a group of Civil War soldiers are held captive by a household of orphans with strange intentions for them