Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Bad Dreams (1988)

4 / 5
Tagline: It's A Scream!
Directed by: Andrew Flemming
Written by: Andrew Fleming, Michael Dick
Actors include: Jennifer Rubin, Bruce Abbot, Richard Lynch
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Length: 84 minutes
Banned: Norway
Country: USA

Review:
It's undeniably similar to the Nightmare on Elm street films, but it's not as much of a rip off as you might think. For starters our lead Cynthia is the lone survivor of a mass cult suicide! She wakes up after a really long coma (for 13 years) and tries to adapt to society while in the psych ward. Soon she is haunted with terrible flashbacks of the leader of her previous cult. Then other members of her group sessions seem to die in really strange ways...who could be responsible? Yeah it's not all that innovative, but some of the deaths are...and it's fast paced and fun much like the Nightmare on Elm street series. I guess at least if you are going to use something as a "guide" they did the right thing and took the good stuff! Oh and the lead actress in this film Jennifer Rubin appears in "A Nightmare On Elm Street part 3: Dream Warriors"!

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