The sporadic emphasis on gory bursts of brutality does help alleviate the otherwise interminable atmosphere (as does the left turn taken by the narrative near the picture's end), and yet Bad Dreams is, for the most part, a fairly disastrous trainwreck of a thriller that'll test the patience of even the most ardent horror fan. de Souza (!) prove hopelessly unable to offer up even a single sympathetic figure, and it is, as such, impossible to work up a rooting interest in the rapidly-dwindling protagonists' success. Screenwriters Andrew Fleming and Steven E. The familiar atmosphere is far from the most troublesome element within the proceedings rather, it's the total lack of compelling, three-dimensional characters that secures Bad Dreams' downfall.
(It doesn't help, certainly, that Cynthia finds herself experiencing visions of her former cult leader.) It's clear virtually from the word go that Bad Dreams has been "inspired" by the Nightmare on Elm Street series, as the movie plays like a blatant clone of, especially, the third installment (ie both movies involve a ragtag assortment of unbalanced characters and, obviously, an emphasis on creepy, ominous dreams).
Bad Dreams casts Jennifer Rubin as Cynthia, the sole survivor of a suicide cult who, after waking up from a 13-year-long coma, is sent into group therapy to prepare her for life in the real world - with complications ensuing as Cynthia's fellow patients begin dying at an alarming rate.
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