What is Bad Dreams?
Topic: Film "Bad Dreams" (1988). Constraint 1: Use ONLY verifiable facts from the provided SYNOPSIS and SOURCES.
- Type
- Film
- Year
- 1988
- Release date
- Apr 8, 1988
- Genres
- Horror, Thriller
- Updated
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- Rating
- ★ TMDB users: 5.7/10
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Topic: Film "Bad Dreams" (1988).
Constraint 1: Use ONLY verifiable facts from the provided SYNOPSIS and SOURCES.
Constraint 2: No inventing/guessing titles, names, dates, counts, awards, ratings, box-office, viewership, or plot points.
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Constraint 6: First sentence must not contain spoilers.
Constraint 7: Do not use information from Source [3] unless it relates to the film "Bad Dreams" (it seems to be about Dean Stockwell and Blue Velvet, so I must check if "Bad Dreams" is mentioned. Source [3] mentions "it bad-dream karaoke" but that's a stylistic description of a scene in Blue Velvet, not the film Bad Dreams).
Title: Bad Dreams
Year: 1988
Release Date (US): 04/08/1988
Genre: Horror and Thriller
Rating: R
Runtime: 1h 26m
Synopsis details:
Unity Field: a "free love" cult from the '70s.
Known for a notorious mass suicide led by Harris (charismatic leader).
Members were supposed to burn in a fire together.
Cynthia was spared by chance.
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Should you watch it?
“A cult massacre survivor wakes from a coma, only to face mysterious suicides and visions of her past.”
- Features a sole survivor of a seventies free love cult mass suicide.
- Directed and co-written by Andrew Fleming.
- Stars Jennifer Rubin, Bruce Abbott, E. G. Daily, Dean Cameron, Harris Yulin, and Richard Lynch.
- People around the protagonist start killing themselves under mysterious and gruesome circumstances.
Watch it if you want to see a cult survivor confront the buried nightmares of her past.
This is a 1988 American supernatural slasher film that deals with dark themes of cults, mass suicide, and mysterious deaths.
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Bad Dreams is a 1988 supernatural slasher film directed by Andrew Fleming that features a cult survivor facing mysterious deaths in a psychiatric ward.
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The film has a runtime of 1 hour and 26 minutes.
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The film stars Jennifer Rubin, Bruce Abbott, E. G. Daily, Dean Cameron, Harris Yulin, and Richard Lynch.
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