Eyes of Fire (also known as Cry Blue Sky) is a 1983 American folk horror film written and directed by independent filmmaker and noted still photographer Avery Crounse.

[3][4] The film takes place in the year 1750 on the American frontier during the colonial days, before the United States declared its independence.

At this time, Eloise's husband Marion Dalton returns home to find news that his wife was scheduled to be executed along with Will for adultery and also learns that the two are on the run with others from the town.

Though the pioneers are no longer under the threat of attack from the Shawnee, they find a young Native American orphan on the outskirts of their camp.

The little girl also shows her true form, an evil spirit born out of the grief and blood of every living thing that was killed.

He is freed and the spirit mortally wounded just as Eloise and Cathleen hide Meg and Fanny in a cabinet which is to be carried downstream.

Caryn James from The New York Times gave the film a somewhat neutral review, calling it "an imagistic morality tale" and "a bizarrely fascinating story told in flashback", but also was somewhat critical saying "If Mr. Crounse had stayed poised on the line between human reality and horrific visions of evil, he might have turned out a small masterpiece, or at least a cult film.

As it is, Eyes of Fire is an ambitious idea gone haywire, as if The Scarlet Letter had zoomed into the future and collided with the movie version of The Exorcist.

The Severin release also features an earlier cut of the film, titled Crying Blue Sky, "restored in 2K from [the] Director's personal 35mm answer print.

Crounse explained in a 2021 interview with author Stephen Thrower that he "cut it down to something that didn't necessarily make much sense," adding that "there are some people who really loved the first version, but there was money that had to be made, so I did what needed to be done."