Bad Dreams (film)
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.
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| 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 |
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| Cinematography | Alexander Gruszynski |
| Edited by | Jeff Freeman |
| Music by | Jay Ferguson |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time | 84 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $4.5 million |
| Box office | $9.8 million |
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).