I think my older sister had this on video and that's how I came to see it. My strong memories of it suggest that I saw it more than once, though. I found it scary enough as a kid.
Click here for a list of all other films reviewed and considered for this October 2012 series of horror reviews.
The entire premise of Bad
Dreams falls apart by listening to the philosophy of the Jim Jones-like
cult figure at the beginning who leads a 1970s hippie youth cult known as Unity
Field in mass suicide. The deepest thing he espouses is that “life and death
are two different states of being.” Whoa! If charismatic cult figures only peddled
such cheap nonsense, they’d have few followers. One young girl escapes the
flaming death trap at the last moment and wakes from her coma thirteen years
later in a psychiatric institution.
