After his parents die at a young age, young Ben Dobbs represses his dreams until his mid teens when they come back to haunt him in the form of nightmares. The only problem is his nightmares are coming to life and killing everyone he associates himself with. His only hope is finding a way to stop the beast his repressed dreams created.
Played out like a normal 80's movie with monsters, lots of guts and a pretty damn good story. You see Ben's in highschool when we find out he had stopped dreaming since he was a little kid because of being traumatized from his parent's death. Once he starts dreaming again it's in the form of a huge red gooey monster, which they did a great job of keeping out of the light for most of the movie to keep suspense and whatnot. Anyways this monster kills anyone that associates themselves with Ben's dreams, including the people that are trying to help him. It erases their lives, their homes, any record they were ever born. The monster keeps it's victims in Ben's nightmares trying to cover it's tracks so no one will be wise to it's existance. The nightmares are so fierce they even come to life during the day while he's wide awake, and he has no way of stopping them, or does he? He's running out of time to try to stop his nightmares from erasing him too.
 
Man this movie was excellent! The story was pretty solid, the Fx were kinda cheesy at parts but other times it was just outstanding; blood, guts, decapitation, head crunching, come on, that's what we all love right?
So the movie kicks in pretty quick with the story so your not sitting around for the first half hour guessing what the hell is happening. Ben himself is kinda nerdy but you get over that by the ending of the movie. He just wants answers, well that and to see his shrink naked, which he does on many occasions which is cool for us viewers. In all this plays out to be a pretty good 80's flick, even if it was made at the tail end.
For all you 80's horror fans this movie is great, has everything you'd want, but for more modern horror fans you might or might not like this. Personally I'd suggest this to all, to watch at least once.
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MOVIE YEAR: 1989
DIRECTOR: Jay Woelfel
WRITING CREDITS: Jay Woelfel
GENRE: Horror
CAST: Nick Baldasare, Corey Frakes, Darby Vasbinder
COUNTRY: USA
RUNTIME: 80 min
RATING: 8/10
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