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Bad Dreams is a american film of genre Thriller directed by Andrew Fleming released in USA on 8 april 1988 with Jennifer Rubin

Bad Dreams (1988)

Bad Dreams
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Released in USA 8 april 1988
Length 1h24
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Thriller,    Horror,    Slasher
Rating56% 2.802042.802042.802042.802042.80204

Bad Dreams is a 1988 American horror film directed and co-written by Andrew Fleming and starring Jennifer Rubin, Bruce Abbott, E.G. Daily, Harris Yulin and Richard Lynch. It was produced by Gale Anne Hurd. The plot follows a young 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 young girl.

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In 1975, a sinister hippie cult called Unity Fields commits mass suicide in a horrific manner - by fire - at the behest of its psychopathic leader, Franklin Harris (Richard Lynch). Only one young woman named Cynthia (Jennifer Rubin) survives to tell the tale. Now, 13 years later, Cynthia is having grim reminders of the mass suicide, as people around her begin to die one at a time. Cynthia finds out quickly that the ghost of Harris is back to claim his 'love child'.

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