Bad Dreams

Bad Dreams is a 1988 American horror film directed and co-written by Andrew Fleming.

Plot
In 1975, a hippie cult called Unity Fields commits mass suicide under the control of the cult's charismatic leader Harris (Richard Lynch).

Thirteen years later, sole survivor Cynthia (Jennifer Rubin) awakens from a coma with no memory of the horrific event. As Cynthia recovers, she starts having visions of Harris.

When members of her therapy group start dying one by one, Cynthia realizes that the ghost of Harris has returned to reclaim her and she must confront her past before it confronts her.

Box Office
"Bad Dreams" grossed $9,797,098 at the box office. It grossed $4,008,870 during its opening weekend.

Critical Reception
Based on 9 reviews, Rotten Tomatoes gave "Bad Dreams" a rating of 11% with an average rating of 3.4\10.

Roger Ebert reviewed the movie, giving it one star, stating:

"Why do they make movies like this? The hypocrisy begins with the gruesome imagery and violence, which earned the film an R rating, even though the primary audience for “Bad Dreams” is under 17. This is another of those foul teenage vomitoriums in which the only message is that the world is evil and brutal. In this world, adults, with a few exceptions, want to kill teenagers. The healing professions contain, of course, the sickest people of all."

Richard Harrington from the Washington Post also gave the movie a less than positive review, stating:

"''Fleming wants us confused as to whether this sequence is real or whether Cynthia's imagining the whole thing, but all he succeeds in doing is convincing us it's just a movie we're seeing, and one with too many shades of "Nightmare on Elm Street" at that (Rubin was also in that film series' most recent sequel). Unfortunately, only "Bad Dreams' " last lines ring true: "There's nothing there. There's nothing to be scared of.''"