Underplayed Gems

Bad Dreams (1988)

Bad Dreams poster
Directed by
Andrew Fleming
Genre
horror film, slasher film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 20m
Rated
R
Rating
5.7 of 10 from 110 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A woman wakes from a 13 year coma to find the ghost of the cult leader who made her and others start a mass suicide. Now she is being stalked by him as he tries to finish the job.

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What happens

Bad Dreams is a 1988 American supernatural slasher film co-written and directed by Andrew Fleming and starring Jennifer Rubin, Bruce Abbott, E. G. Daily, Dean Cameron, Harris Yulin, and Richard Lynch. It follows Cynthia Weston, a woman who awakens from a thirteen-year-long coma and finds herself being stalked by Franklin Harris, the ghost of a cult leader who led a mass suicide by fire that she survived as a child. Bad Dreams was released by 20th Century Fox on April 8, 1988, and grossed $9.8 million at the box office on a budget of $4.5 million. However, it was criticized by horror fans and critics alike because of its similarities to A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), even taking into account that Jennifer Rubin was a supporting actress in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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