A suburban housewife learns that she has a dreamworld connection to a serial murderer, and must stop him from killing again.A suburban housewife learns that she has a dreamworld connection to a serial murderer, and must stop him from killing again.A suburban housewife learns that she has a dreamworld connection to a serial murderer, and must stop him from killing again.
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- TriviaThe mental institution scenes were filmed at the Northampton State Hospital, an actual asylum in Northampton, Massachusetts, which was abandoned at the time.
- GoofsDuring sentencing, the judge tells Vivian "the State of Massachusetts has declared you insane," thus making him ineligible for the death penalty. In legal parlance, Massachusetts is always referred to as a Commonwealth, and does not practice the death penalty.
- Quotes
[repeated chant]
Vivian Thompson: My daddy is a dollar / I wrote it on a fence / My daddy is a dollar / not worth a hundred cents.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Last Days of the Board (1999)
- SoundtracksDon't Sit Under the Apple Tree
Written by Lew Brown, Sam H. Stept and Charles Tobias
Performed by The Andrews Sisters
Courtesy of MCA Records
Under license from Universal Music Special Markets
Featured review
A True Nightmare
This film was indeed a nightmare - a solid cast with a very poor script and a lot of pretty pictures and great sets. An art director's dream come true.
So here's this cool opening premise of an underwater ghost-town that just kind of gets lost somewhere along the way. I was intrigued at the beginning, and by the end (with the Carrie-esque sequence) I was howling at what a mess this film had become. Can't quite figure out how this obviously upper middle class woman gets put in an asylum that makes Cuckoo's Nest's digs look like the Ritz. Guess Mr. Jordan decided that would look better.
I enjoyed the previous comments about how the apple factory happened to have such fresh product since the only occupant was a crazed Anthony Perkins wanna-be. I too had questions about that little stretch. Of course you must suspend some disbelief for any horror film - but this one just asked a little too much of the audience. Rent it if you want to see Annette Benning embarrass herself but look good doing it.
So here's this cool opening premise of an underwater ghost-town that just kind of gets lost somewhere along the way. I was intrigued at the beginning, and by the end (with the Carrie-esque sequence) I was howling at what a mess this film had become. Can't quite figure out how this obviously upper middle class woman gets put in an asylum that makes Cuckoo's Nest's digs look like the Ritz. Guess Mr. Jordan decided that would look better.
I enjoyed the previous comments about how the apple factory happened to have such fresh product since the only occupant was a crazed Anthony Perkins wanna-be. I too had questions about that little stretch. Of course you must suspend some disbelief for any horror film - but this one just asked a little too much of the audience. Rent it if you want to see Annette Benning embarrass herself but look good doing it.
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- Aug 4, 1999
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- Blue Vision
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- Budget
- $30,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $12,017,369
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $3,992,449
- Jan 17, 1999
- Gross worldwide
- $12,017,369
- Runtime1 hour 40 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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