Bad Dreams (film)

Bad Dreams is a 1988 American horror film co-written and directed by Andrew Fleming and starring Jennifer Rubin, Bruce Abbott, E.G. Daily, Harris Yulin and Richard Lynch. It was produced by Gale Anne Hurd. The plot follows a young woman who awakens from a thirteen-year-long coma and finds herself being stalked by the ghost of a cult leader who led a mass suicide by fire that she survived as a young girl.

Synopsis

In 1975, a sinister hippie cult called Unity Fields commits mass suicide in a horrific manner - by fire - at the behest of its psychopathic leader, Franklin Harris (Richard Lynch). Only one young woman named Cynthia (Jennifer Rubin) survives to tell the tale, though she lies in a coma for thirteen years. After she wakes, Cynthia has grim reminders of the mass suicide, as people around her begin to die one at a time. Cynthia finds out quickly that the ghost of Harris is back to claim his 'love child'.

Cast

• Jennifer Rubin as Cynthia
• Bruce Abbott as Dr. Alex Karmen
• Richard Lynch as Franklin Harris
• Dean Cameron as Ralph Pesco
• Harris Yulin as Dr. Berrisford
• Susan Barnes as Connie
• Paul Rawson as Billy
• John Scott Clough as Victor
• E.G. Daily as Lana
• Damita Jo Freeman as Gilda
• Louis Giambalvo as Ed
• Susan Ruttan as Miriam
• Sy Richardson as Detective Wasserman
• Missy Francis as Young Cynthia
• Sheila Scott-Wilkenson as Hettie
• Ben Kronen as Edgar

Release

The film was released theatrically in the United States by 20th Century Fox on April 8, 1988. It grossed $9,797,098 at the U.S. box office.^[1]

The film was released on DVD in the United States by Anchor Bay Entertainment in 2006.^[2] This version is currently out of print.

The film was released by Shout Factory along with Visiting Hours as a double feature DVD on September 13, 2011.

See also

• A Nightmare on Elm Street series

References

External links

• Bad Dreams at the Internet Movie Database
• Bad Dreams at AllMovie