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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Under appreciated thriller, January 10, 2006
Released in 1982, this film features effective performances and does a good job with creating creepy imagery. The story centers around a young man (Zeljko Ivanek) who becomes commited to a state run mental institution in order to cure his amnesia. Kathryn Harrold is the doctor who attempts to aid him. The catch is he can project his dreams to the concious world. Reality and dream reality run amok for Harrold in her quest to cure the young man. If you like intelligent thrillers, this is a movie to be viewed. Horror fans take note: this film does feature some gore, a prerequisite beheading, and enough chills to deliver the goods.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Now on DVD....Finally, November 13, 2008
Throw away that old VHS Version of this Now "CULT MOVIE"..it is now available on DVD..This long forgotten movie relies deeply on mood and great visuals, and wounderful new stereo sound...It is about a young man that can project his dreams (Nightmares) on others. What a wounderful revenge movie! You will like this one,..from the 80's.
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
your dreams will never be the same, September 15, 2001
Director Roger Christian's film is more supernatural than horror, with Zeljko Ivanek as an amnesiac attempted suicide who is brought to a Georgian state mental asylm and assigned Kathyn Harrold as his doctor. That Harrold's name is Farmer and resists the standard procedure of giving shock treatment to suicidal patients so as to destroy memory, may be writer Thomas Baum's tribute to Frances Farmer. Baum's screenplay features witticisms. A nurse calls Ivanek "fish" referring to his drowning attempt, Harrold tells Ivanel him thinking he is the messiah will be a problem because they already have one in the "elopement ward", and when Ivanek meets him the messiah spits on the ground in front of Ivanek and says "Walk on that". Soon however Harrold begins having visions of Ivanek, which allows for the contextually funny remark "He's driving you crazy", and we learn that he is a "sender" ie one who communcates via telepathy, using the skill it is said infants under 7 months have to mentally communicate with their mother. Ivanek experiences his telepathy as nightmares and these are seen as reality by whoever he sends to. At first it is only Harrold but soon others at the asylum get it too. The nadir of this is when Ivanek is given shock treatment where the attending professionals are shocked as well, and when Harrold rings to report that Ivanek is having a "nightmare", the answering nurse scores a laugh with "Tell me about it" and we see the staff trying to cope with anguished patients. Christian's skill with pace and atmosphere redeems the excesses of the nightmare visions - rats, blood, broken glass, cockroaches, fire - though occasionally the division between what is real and what is only imagined is unclear, and sometimes the music score by Trevor Jones is too much. However it's great to see Harrold in a rare leading role, I liked the staging of Ivanek's opening suicide attempt, the way a policeman places a necklace in her hand after her claim that it was taken from her is proven to be false, Shirley Knight as Ivanek's mother makes several enigmatic appearances, and Christian supplies a suitably spooky and unresolved ending.
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