Bad Dreams (film)

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Bad Dreams
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Andrew Fleming
Screenplay by	Andrew Fleming Steven E. de Souza
Story by	Andrew Fleming Michael Dick P.J. Pettiette Yuri Zeltser
Produced by	Gale Anne Hurd
Starring	Jennifer Rubin Bruce Abbott Richard Lynch Dean Cameron Harris Yulin
Cinematography	Alexander Gruszynski
Edited by	Jeff Freeman
Music by	Jay Ferguson
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date	April 8, 1988 (1988-04-08)[1]
Running time	84 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$4.5 million[1]
Box office	$9.8 million

Bad Dreams is a 1988 American supernatural mystery slasher film co-written and directed by Andrew Fleming and starring Jennifer Rubin, Bruce Abbott, E. G. Daily, Dean Cameron, Harris Yulin and Richard Lynch. It was produced by Gale Anne Hurd. The plot follows a woman who awakens from a thirteen-year-long coma and finds herself being stalked by the ghost of a cult leader who led a mass suicide by fire that she survived as a child.

Bad Dreams was released on April 8, 1988, and grossed $9.8 million at the box office on a budget of $4.5 million. However, it was criticized by horror fans and critics alike because of its similarities to A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), even taking into account that Jennifer Rubin was a supporting actress in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987).