Bad Dreams (1988)

Director:

Andrew Fleming

Writers (WGA):

Andrew Fleming (story) &
Michael Dick (story) ...
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Release Date:

8 April 1988 (USA)

Genre:

Horror | Thriller

Tagline:

The Scream You Don't Hear... Is Your Own

Plot:

In the mid-'70s, a cult group called Unity Field commits mass suicide, but a young girl survives. After...

Plot Keywords:

Suicide | Cult | Mass Suicide | Fire | Psychiatrist

Cast

Jennifer Rubin	...	Cynthia
Bruce Abbott	...	Dr. Alex Karmen
Richard Lynch	...	Harris
Dean Cameron	...	Ralph
Harris Yulin	...	Dr. Berrisford
Susan Barnes	...	Connie
John Scott Clough	...	Victor
Elizabeth Daily	...	Lana (as E.G. Daily)
Damita Jo Freeman	...	Gilda
Louis Giambalvo	...	Ed
Susan Ruttan	...	Miriam
Sy Richardson	...	Detective Wasserman
Melissa Francis	...	Young Cynthia (as Missy Francis)
Sheila Scott-Wilkenson	...	Hettie
Ben Kronen	...	Edgar
Jon Menick	...	Night Guard Anthony
Charles Fleischer	...	Ron the Pharmacist
Brian Katkin	...	Physical Therapist
Steven Anderson	...	Reporter #1
Ellaraino	...	Reporter #2
Alba Francesca	...	Reporter #3
Maria Melendez	...	Reporter #4
Chip Johnson	...	Reporter #5
Diane Zolten Wiltse	...	Reporter #6
Steve Whiteford	...	Reporter #7
Coleen Maloney	...	Unity House Nurse
Annie Waterman	...	Unity Member #1
Lee Waddell	...	Unity Member #2
Tim Trella	...	Unity Member #3
Philip Granger	...	Unity Member #4
Kristina Loggia	...	Unity Member #5
Patricia Veselich	...	Unity Member #6
Elizabeth DuNah	...	Unity Member #7
Julianne Dallara	...	Unity Member #8
James Bolt	...	Unity Member #9
Evan MacKenzie	...	Unity Member #10
Darnell Gregorio-De Palma	...	Unity Member #11
Caroline Walter	...	Unity Member #12
Anthony Cecere	...	Fireman
James Purcell	...	Paramedic
Don Sparks	...	Policeman at Fire
Julianna McCarthy	...	Nurse #1
Sarina C. Grant	...	Nurse #2
Romy Rosemont	...	Nurse #3
Randy Oglesby	...	Cynthia's Policeman (as Tom Oglesby)
Charles Bouvier	...	Ralph's Policeman
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
George Coutoupis	...	Man in elevator
Michael Joiner	...	Doctor
Linda Kaye	...	Unity Woman on Fire
John Solari

Directed by
Andrew Fleming

Writing credits (WGA)
Andrew Fleming		(story) &
Michael Dick		(story) &
P.J. Pettiette		(story) &
Yuri Zeltser		(story)
Andrew Fleming		(screenplay) and
Steven E. de Souza		(screenplay)

Produced by
Gale Anne Hurd	....	producer
Ginny Nugent	....	associate producer

Original Music by
Jay Ferguson

Cinematography by
Alexander Gruszynski

Film Editing by
Jeff Freeman

Production Design by
Ivo Cristante

Costume Design by
Deborah Everton
Ronald Leamon
Patricia Norris

Makeup Department
Michèle Burke	....	special makeup effects (as Michelle Burke)
Kimberly Felix	....	assistant makeup artist

Production Management
Charles Skouras III	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
John R. Woodward	....	first assistant director

Art Department
Babak Shokrian	....	art p.a.

Sound Department
Richard L. Anderson	....	supervising sound editor
Ron Bartlett	....	sound effects editor
Greg Curda	....	foley mixer
Christopher Flick	....	foley editor
Oscar Mitt	....	sound
Jerry Trent	....	foley artist
Allen Hurd	....	sound recordist (uncredited)

Special Effects by
Roger George	....	special effects
Lise Romanoff	....	special effects

Visual Effects by
Bret Mixon	....	rotoscoping
Jon Warren	....	model maker
Mike Warren	....	special effects technician: Fantasy II

Stunts
Anthony Cecere	....	stunt coordinator
Linda Fetters	....	stunts
Jeff Habberstad	....	stunts
Lee Waddell	....	stunts

Camera and Electrical Department
Albert Malvaez	....	second assistant camera
Bob Myers	....	key grip
John 'Fest' Sandau	....	assistant chief lighting technician
Paul Trimble	....	grip (uncredited)

Editorial Department
Greg Hittelman	....	apprentice editor (as Gregory Hittelman)

Music Department
Mary Patrao	....	assistant music editor

Other crew
Jim Fall	....	production assistant
Ernest D. Farino	....	title designer: main titles
Greg Hittelman	....	production assistant (as Gregory Hittelman)
Robert Rippe	....	on-set production assistant

Production Companies

• No Frills Film Production

Distributors

• Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation (1988) (USA) (theatrical)
• Anchor Bay Entertainment (2006) (USA) (DVD)
• CBS / Fox Video (1990) (Greece) (VHS)
• CBS/Fox (1988) (USA) (VHS)
• CBS/Fox (1989) (USA) (laserdisc)
• Shout! Factory (2011) (USA) (DVD)

Special Effects

• Fantasy II Film Effects

Other Companies

• Clairmont Camera  camera equipment provided by

Also Known As:

Runtime:

Australia:80 min | 84 min (FMC Library Print)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Australia:R | France:-12 | USA:R | Iceland:16 | Norway:18 (video rating) | Norway:(Banned) (1988-2003) (cinema release) | Finland:(Banned) (1988) | Finland:K-18 (re-rating) | UK:18 (cut) | Portugal:M/18 | Singapore:NC-16

Company:

No Frills Film Production

Quotes:

Detective Wasserman:[draws his gun on Ralph] Drop those knives.
Ralph:Knives? These are not knives, these are fine surgical instruments.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film (2006)

Soundtrack:

Time Has Come Today

typical eighties

Well well, this surely surprised me. I didn't know what to think about this flick. The cover showed me some deformed hand holding a face. I catched this at a garage sale, 3 movies for 1 dollar. So I bought it. Glad that I could put it into my collection. First of all, it's a typical era movie, the end of the eighties. The slashers were over and movie makers were searching for new things, so they decide to make supernatural flicks, with the most famous Elm Street. Bad Dreams isn't bad after all, it's watchable for everybody in the genre. The storyline is simple, a girl is in a cult, the cult made a suicide, she's the only survivor. And waking out of a coma she suddenly has bad dreams about the leader of the cult. It's bloody, not gory. The filming is perfect and the score is nice too, only at the end they stated My Way as from a band but it's Sid Vicious, sure of it. Perfect performance by the girl and the leader of the cult. If you can catch it cheap, you won't be disappointed.