Bad Dreams (film)

Bad Dreams
Theatrical release poster
Directed byAndrew Fleming
Screenplay byAndrew Fleming
Steven E. de Souza
Story byAndrew Fleming
Michael Dick
P.J. Pettiette
Yuri Zeltser
Produced byGale Anne Hurd
Starring
CinematographyAlexander Gruszynski
Edited byJeff Freeman
Music byJay Ferguson
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release date
  • April 8, 1988 (1988-04-08)[1]
Running time
84 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
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).

  1. ^ a b "Bad Dreams". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. Los Angeles, California: American Film Institute. Archived from the original on March 31, 2020.