Movie Review: Bad Dreams

(1988)
Directed by Andrew Fleming
Starring Jennifer Rubin, Richard Lynch, Bruce Abbott, Harris Yulin, E.G. Daily, Dean Cameron, Susan Ruttan, Sy Richardson

I would make a strong guess this film was made to jump on the Freddy bandwagon when it first was being made. First, it came out right after Nightmare 3, which seemed to be at the peak of Freddy-mania, and even getting one of the cast from the film, Jennifer Rubin to play the lead protagonist. Whatever the reasoning behind it, I remember not really caring for it when it first came out in the theaters way back then. When I recently watched it again, I tried to watch it with a fresh set of eyes and see if it played any better this time. Well . . . not so much.

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