Did you ever see Dreamscape from 1984? It was about using a machine to put psychics in people's dreams for therapeutic reasons, but with a side project of using this for covert assasinations. That was another childhood favourite.
That's what I came here to say. I have always been a Dennis Quade fan, so I saw that one. So interesting it came out only a few weeks before Nightmare on Elm Street.
Can’t find/post any clips, so you’ll just have to take my word that the greatest dream sequences in film are Mt. Fuji erupting in lava from Akira Kurosawa’s “Dreams” 🌋😱, and a secret policeman walking into Anthony Perkins’ bedroom (“Wh-who are you, what’re you doing here?”) from the opening of Orson Welles’ “The Trial”.
I liked most of the movie -- the ending was a bit disappointing for me, though. Also, the speech from the priest was unconvincing -- a lowly priest knowing the deepest, darkest secrets of the Vatican just didn't quite ring true.
One great movie dream scene is the start of Aliens when it looks like a chestburster is about to pop out of Ripley. Great scene. Sets the tone nicely for the rest of the movie given that she's about to go off and face her worst nightmare.
I like that one as well. The worst dream sequences are when you realise it's one before it's over. But this one is perfectly believable till she wakes up
I think the givaway was that the room was bright and clean and the nurse affable and engaging. Then reality was the room was dark and nurse only checked on her by cctv then switched off very quickly.
Ya know, there's a Finnish symphonic metal band called Nightwish that has a song called Over The Hills and Far Away. I think that title describes this plot.
The Anime movie ''Paprika'' is a really great Sci-Fi/Mindf*ck movie abort ''diving'' into another person's dreams. Christopher Nolan took a lot of visual inspiration from it, for some of the dream sequences in ''Inception''.
For both the best and worst on screen dream scene how about the entire 9th season of Dallas that was written off as a dream after the backlash they recieved for killing of Bobby Ewing?
SNL lampooned it by having Madonna cameo in the cold open and announce their previous season was all a dream. It almost backfired when the live audience didn't know it was her at first. I think thats the season where Sinead tore a photo of the Pope or Nora Dunn refused to appear when Andrew Dice Clay guest hosted and was fired.
More importantly the lazy-ass "it was all a dream" summary ending actually has the unfortunate effect of nullifying the entire preceding film.. Think about that. It's the same cop-out device that spoiled (for me at least) otherwise excellent moves such as JACOB'S LADDER and DONNIE DARKO. It was also used as the ending in Jennifer Lynch's BOXING HELENA---but that doesn't matter because it was a shitty movie anyway.
He also doubled as a director of exploitation features. His credits include RACE WITH THE DEVIL(1975), the blaxploitation classic SLAUGHTER (1972), CLEOPATRA JONES (1974), and CRY BLOOD, APACHE (1970). Was he the one who played the loopy scientist in this week's movie? I couldn't tell.
I think this was one of Robert Tessier's last roles (as the doctor's assistant). Tessier was in a few crummy motorcycle movies back in the 1960s. One being, "The Glory Stompers," which was directed by Dennis Hopper. Hopper also starred in that two-wheeled drive-in swill. Tessier was also in, "Born Losers." I remember watching "Nightwish" with some friends. They were bored as much as I. Thanks, Robin. Keep those celluloid gems coming at us.
Best "it was all a dream": I would have to say *Jacob's Ladder* and in a way *Angel Heart* (as it might not be a dream per se, but a lot of things happen when Harry Angel sleeps that turn his life into a nightmare) Worst "it was all a dream": I know others have mentioned *Sucker Punch* (ugh), but I would like to nominate *American Psycho.* Brilliant performance by Bale or not, when you realize the entire movie was just in his head and was completely pointless? The movie was mediocre at best, but that was the icing on the garbage cake. It was like the movie itself was saying "so you thought the movie was a waste of time? Guess what? _IT IS!"_
Even though for once (?) it makes sense for it all to have been "just a dream", that revelation really pissed me off, and that's just watching this review and not the movie itself! I still can't work out whether the film looks interesting or pointless.
Perfect Blue, though that wasn't technically a dream, it was the main character hallucinating. Except she was playing a character in a TV series who was crazy, so you could never tell how much was real and how much wasn't. Paprika was also by Satoshi Kon (RIP), and it was a dreamscape, but I prefer PB.
Hey... I remember watching this one, back in the day. And, when drinking "Island Coolers" and watching with friends, it was fun. Ah, the 80s. Thanks for another enjoyable trip down memory lane.
The episode titled "A, B, and C" of the '60s TV show "The Prisoner" was clearly what the movie "Dreamscape" ripped its idea off from. Though its dream sequences were not meant to be visually spectacular, what happens, along with the use of music, does create a truly dreamy feel and was one of the best episodes of one of the finest series ever. The most mind-blowing dream scene was, of course, the hospital wake-up in "An American Werewolf in London".
Biggest unanswered question with this film: What the heck did she see in Dave in the first place? I suppose she was keeping him around in case civilisation collapses, because he'd take care of hunting for food easily. But in the long run you might get bored of rabbit every night. Worst one ever: Robot Monster.
This extravaganza is shockingly watchable. Its wacky as hell, but just appealing enough to keep watching just to see what will happen next! Ah the 80s...anything was possible!! By the way, love the voice overs for some of the characters.
I particularly love the whole crucifixion motif---it's so vintage Woody. You know, I sure wish Woody Allen had kept making funny movies instead of the boring, pretentious, self-indulgent, unrelatable, and totally unfunny "petit bourgeois" garbage that he started cranking out post-ANNIE HALL. I also wish that I had gills and could breath underwater like Aquaman or the Kevin Costner character in WATERWORLD. And I wish too that I could find a pair of magic underpants which would confer super-strength upon me, and I wished that solid gold doubloons would shoot from my bunghole whenever I sneezed or broke wind. As you can see, I wish for many things. But alas so alas.
@@ashleys9397 i agree with Harlan Ellison who argued that Woody is just about the best speclative fiction (HE's prefered term for science fiction/fantasy genre) filmmaker citing that films like Zelig and Purple Rose of Cairo fit right into the genre. I consider Midnight in Paris to be the best time travel movie ever made. I'm glad Woody moved away from his earlier style of comedy because he would have gone the way of Mel Brooks. Mel's later films have their moments but pale in comparison to his earlier output.
Brian Thompson, the rabbit killer- I've seen him in tons of stuff. I remember most as a vicious character on X-Files. The dream sequence that sticks in my mind, not because it was so great but because it started what became an annoying trend, was the final scene of the original Carrie, where Carrie fists her way out of the grave
Bad Dreams (1988) was a horror movie that promised a villain that would outdo Freddy Krueger. Instead of a supernatural antagonist, however, the flick served up a half-baked plot surrounding a medical researcher dosing unwitting patients with psychedelics.
@@shannondore holy crap, he was Admiral Mark Jameson in the TNG episode "Too Short the Season" (with the decrepit admiral who was taking the youth serum that recrepified him to death).
He was also the first guy killed by the Terminator and was in several Star Trek series and the pilot of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (which I've just started watching again) :)
BTW, what the heck are you doing watching Mortal Kombat Annihilation? They used to burn people as heretics for that sort of behaviour back in my day...
Best movie dream scenes. Alien 3 and Resurrection in their entirety. As for captain bunny killer I'll always remember him as the psycho from the Stallone movie Cobra. It was the way he said Pig! ''You can't kill me can you PIG!''
The REAL (and actually good) Inception is the 1984 film Dreamscape with Dennis Quaid and Kate Kapshaw. It has some awesome dream sequences, all done with super cool practical effects.
Best dream scene: Something something Oz I think? You probably never heard of it. Pee Wee's Big Adventure has some good ones too. Worst dream scene, that's a little more interesting and requires some actual thought. Forget what I just said, it's Sucker Punch. It's the movie I thought of when Robin said "meaningless drivel".
Do you guys remember *Altered States* (1980) with William Hurt? I think it's largely forgotten now, but it was a pretty big deal back in the day. Maybe you've already covered it? Edit: Of course you all know about it. I forgot where I was. I feel silly now.
Wake Forest alumnus here (undergrad). The fact that the "doctor" was kicked out of Duke only increases my respect for him. (Joke is funny if you're American. Well, it's explicable if you're American.)
The best ' it was all a dream ' was the end of INVADERS FROM MARS !!! OK , not really a horror movie , but scared the daylights outa me , when I was seven!!!
"We're five college students on our way to an old abandoned Cabin in the woods." Evil Dead the musical. I guess I could just reference a movie but I wouldn't know which one. Oh yeah. Cabin in the Woods.
3:01 wth are they eating? Tortilla chips, orange, some kine of sandwich and either an apple or a nectarine/peach. Oh and can't forget the red wine to flush it down.
Best Dream Sequences: The ending of John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness, the zombies rising out of the graves in The Plague of Zombies Worst Dream Sequence: The ending of Wes Craven's Deadly Friend
I'm with you! The movie is totally bonkers and makes no sense... but it's so much stupid, colourful fun! And: Liz Kaitan is in it and as always looks ridiculously beautiful and charismatic! What more to ask for?!
The mature writing of St. Elsewhere was cinema grade and their dream sequence episode was very sureal. I did like the dream with ZZTop performing "Legs". One of the producers went on to create Homicide: Life on the Street and their dream sequence was set to the original version of Barbra Lewis' "Hello Stranger". A rookie detective has a stress nightmare about his unsolved child murder case.
I consider HOMICIDE: LIFE ON THE STREET to be possibly the best crime drama ever made for TV. The level of writing was exceptional and the ensemble cast acting exemplary; overall it was markedly better than the more widely watched but overrated NYPD BLUE. While ST. ELSEWHERE was a great series in a 1980s context, it doesn't really hold up all that well. Blame it on GREY'S ANATOMY, I guess.
@@ashleys9397 It was impeccable for the first 2 seasons. Absolutely flawless. Once they started the juke box treatment it began to slide a little. Totally jumped the shark when they stopped taking the events of the book and news articles as script inspiration and copied the "sexy cop soap opera" garbage everyone else was doing. God I loved that show.
Favorite or most memorable dream sequence? Hmmmmmm....For me the only one that springs most immediately to mind is the very stylized brief segment in Hitchcock's SPELLBOUND (1945). That's the movie with Gregory Peck as an amnesiac who ends up in the booby hatch. At some point his character is placed under deep hypnosis and experiences this really nutty dream that looks like something out of a Salvador Dali painting. That's most likely because the dream sequene was designed by Salvador Dali himself. Huh! How about that! And here's some riveting movie history trivia: In its original unscissored version the sequence ran for some 20 minutes. When it was screened for executive producer David O. Selznick, he totally flipped out and---once he stopped spitting up all over himself---immediately ordered extensive cutting. You have to remember that this was back in the day when stuff-shirted producers & dour cigar-chomping studio executives called all the shots, and directors & writers had little option but to shut up & put up. Consequently just a little over two minutes eventually made it into the final product. But for a few surviving stills the excised footage was summarily trashed and flushed down the movie studio crapper. This seemingly arbitrary destruction naturally invited speculation as to its putatively objectionable content. So for all that anyone knows it could well have been some outlandishly phallo-centric, eroto-maniacal, flamboyantly masturbatory, pseudo-Freudian dementia involving giant talking penises ("Howdy! I'm Peter Pecker!") or man-devouring tentacled multi-titted monstrosities exploding out of ladies' nether parts (Dali was more than just a bit pervy). It's not exactly recorded what Hitch thought of it. Who knows? Maybe he actually dug it. Though that would have to be on account of him being a big ol' perv too.
The actor that plays Dean also played the alien bounty hunter in the X Files. The special effects also rival Capt Zep Space Detective ... Remember that. 😣😅
I watched this movie recently and couldn't stop laughing. The awful acting, the boom mic being visible in multiple shots, crew members being visible in a few scene lingering in the corners, one character's hand injury switching from the right to the left and back to the right again. I get that they were attempting to capture the dream-like quality of 80's horror like Nightmare on Elm Street, Bad Dreams and even Dreamscape, but the result is a hilarious disaster.
Because there was no haunting. They _were_ bedeviled by fans of the movie who thought nothing of trespassing and trying to steal things from the property.
@@julietfischer5056 That---but even worse was Ricky "The Acid King" Kasso and his Eighties metalhead minions holding an impromptu Black Mass on the front lawn. For real.
The series MASH had a very creepy dream sequence episode where everyone had nightmares. Since they were all war themed I guess you could call it horror. Maj. Houlihan in a white wedding dress splattered with blood ala Carrie White was pretty graphic.
@@euansmith3699 I love that series, though it certainly had it's bad moments. That was how I came across Naked Souls, I was looking for more of her work.
Last night I dreamed that the only horror movies left on the planet were the super shitty ones from the 1980s reviewed here on Bad Movie Review. Woke up in a cold sweat. But was it all just a team? Bwahaha-ha-ha!
DRESSED TO KILL had a great dream scene at the end of the movie. I don't what they were doing, but it sure as Hell wasn't Parapsychology. And they had to pull in UFOs and Cryptology ( Charles Fort is rolling in his grave). ALTERED STATES had sex with a cheesy version of THE LEGEND OF HELL HOUSE and their hate child had sex with THE HILLS HAVE EYES. I'm surprised I did hear chainsaws and banjo music. If you want to see a decent movie about Parapsychology, watch THE ENTITY ( based on a true case).
I rented this movie, I thought it was okay. the ending sucked imho. I was sure Lori Singer started in this movie. Memories aren't trust worthy, at leat mine.
An American Werewolf in London has some of the best dream sequences and fake outs.
yeah, and probably the best metamorphosis into a werewolf, that film is really good...
3:22 "Do you have the slightest idea what parapsychology is?"
Uh, two psychologies?
Did you ever see Dreamscape from 1984? It was about using a machine to put psychics in people's dreams for therapeutic reasons, but with a side project of using this for covert assasinations. That was another childhood favourite.
They re-used the Cobra Man in WAXWORK ( 1987) and mixed with with FREAKS.
That's what I came here to say. I have always been a Dennis Quade fan, so I saw that one. So interesting it came out only a few weeks before Nightmare on Elm Street.
@@jackwells8107 Did you see him in Muppets Tonight? If not you should check that out, it was a great episode. :)
@@cord113 Speaking of Muppets Tonight, you should watch the episode that Pierce Brosnan appeared in.
@@mariakelly90210 You mean the one when they dress him up as a giant prawn? Soooo funny. :)
My directing professor at Los Angeles City College directed NIGHTWISH! :)
Could you please expand on that one? Really. We want to know more.
Can’t find/post any clips, so you’ll just have to take my word that the greatest dream sequences in film are Mt. Fuji erupting in lava from Akira Kurosawa’s “Dreams” 🌋😱, and a secret policeman walking into Anthony Perkins’ bedroom (“Wh-who are you, what’re you doing here?”) from the opening of Orson Welles’ “The Trial”.
I like the "message from the future" dream in John Carpenter's 'Prince of Darkness'; very creepy!
Good one. Very haunting.
I liked most of the movie -- the ending was a bit disappointing for me, though. Also, the speech from the priest was unconvincing -- a lowly priest knowing the deepest, darkest secrets of the Vatican just didn't quite ring true.
One great movie dream scene is the start of Aliens when it looks like a chestburster is about to pop out of Ripley. Great scene. Sets the tone nicely for the rest of the movie given that she's about to go off and face her worst nightmare.
I like that one as well. The worst dream sequences are when you realise it's one before it's over. But this one is perfectly believable till she wakes up
I think the givaway was that the room was bright and clean and the nurse affable and engaging. Then reality was the room was dark and nurse only checked on her by cctv then switched off very quickly.
Ya know, there's a Finnish symphonic metal band called Nightwish that has a song called Over The Hills and Far Away. I think that title describes this plot.
The Anime movie ''Paprika'' is a really great Sci-Fi/Mindf*ck movie abort ''diving'' into another person's dreams.
Christopher Nolan took a lot of visual inspiration from it, for some of the dream sequences in ''Inception''.
Good to know.
Remember that movie from the 1980s entitled Dreamscape. With the snake monster, always thought that movie was cool when I was a kid.
Just wrote pretty much the same thing only to see your comment when I hit refresh. :)
I still watch that from time to time. Great movie.
That’s what I was going to say
For both the best and worst on screen dream scene how about the entire 9th season of Dallas that was written off as a dream after the backlash they recieved for killing of Bobby Ewing?
I remember that pissing a lot of people off.
SNL lampooned it by having Madonna cameo in the cold open and announce their previous season was all a dream. It almost backfired when the live audience didn't know it was her at first.
I think thats the season where Sinead tore a photo of the Pope or Nora Dunn refused to appear when Andrew Dice Clay guest hosted and was fired.
@@skylx0812 Married With Children also wrote off a couple of episodes that way. They did it to deal with a bad situation.
The show St Elsewhere ended with it turning out to be in the head of an autistic kid.
"It was all a dream" - the MOST overused device in all of moviehood!
Used when the ending was a downer to avoid upsetting the moral guardians.
More importantly the lazy-ass "it was all a dream" summary ending actually has the unfortunate effect of nullifying the entire preceding film.. Think about that. It's the same cop-out device that spoiled (for me at least) otherwise excellent moves such as JACOB'S LADDER and DONNIE DARKO. It was also used as the ending in Jennifer Lynch's BOXING HELENA---but that doesn't matter because it was a shitty movie anyway.
@@ashleys9397- Here, it looks as if they're implying she's still dreaming.
Still a cop-out.
I saw that this was Jack Starrett second to last movie before he’s died.He was Gabby Johnson in Blazing Saddles and Deputy Galt from First Blood.
He was also a director.
He also doubled as a director of exploitation features. His credits include RACE WITH THE DEVIL(1975), the blaxploitation classic SLAUGHTER (1972), CLEOPATRA JONES (1974), and CRY BLOOD, APACHE (1970). Was he the one who played the loopy scientist in this week's movie? I couldn't tell.
@@ashleys9397 His voice definitely gives it away.
Apparently the Professor made more sense in his legendary role as Gabby Johnson in Blazing Saddles.
Definitely, because "no sidewindin', bushwackin', hornswagglin' cracker croaker is gonna rouin me bishen cutter!" Now who can argue with that?
I had no idea this masterpiece existed, and it stars Brian Thompson. I shall hunt for this gem asap. Thanks, Robin. You rock!
I think a certain Finish symphonic metal band has something to say about this.
I think this was one of Robert Tessier's last roles (as the doctor's assistant). Tessier was in a few crummy motorcycle movies back in the 1960s. One being, "The Glory Stompers," which was directed by Dennis Hopper. Hopper also starred in that two-wheeled drive-in swill. Tessier was also in, "Born Losers." I remember watching "Nightwish" with some friends. They were bored as much as I. Thanks, Robin. Keep those celluloid gems coming at us.
I remember him as second in command to Paul Lynde's Chief Nerrrvous Elk from "The Villian".
@@skylx0812 -- Ha! I remember that film!
1:52 It's like Kirk Douglas with Michael Ironside's voice.
Best "it was all a dream": I would have to say *Jacob's Ladder* and in a way *Angel Heart* (as it might not be a dream per se, but a lot of things happen when Harry Angel sleeps that turn his life into a nightmare)
Worst "it was all a dream": I know others have mentioned *Sucker Punch* (ugh), but I would like to nominate *American Psycho.* Brilliant performance by Bale or not, when you realize the entire movie was just in his head and was completely pointless? The movie was mediocre at best, but that was the icing on the garbage cake. It was like the movie itself was saying "so you thought the movie was a waste of time? Guess what? _IT IS!"_
Even though for once (?) it makes sense for it all to have been "just a dream", that revelation really pissed me off, and that's just watching this review and not the movie itself!
I still can't work out whether the film looks interesting or pointless.
That ectoplasm effect was very nicely animated, I'll give it that!
I do like some good process work; hand drawn lightning effects are a personal favourite.
Perfect Blue, though that wasn't technically a dream, it was the main character hallucinating. Except she was playing a character in a TV series who was crazy, so you could never tell how much was real and how much wasn't. Paprika was also by Satoshi Kon (RIP), and it was a dreamscape, but I prefer PB.
Hey... I remember watching this one, back in the day. And, when drinking "Island Coolers" and watching with friends, it was fun. Ah, the 80s. Thanks for another enjoyable trip down memory lane.
The episode titled "A, B, and C" of the '60s TV show "The Prisoner" was clearly what the movie "Dreamscape" ripped its idea off from. Though its dream sequences were not meant to be visually spectacular, what happens, along with the use of music, does create a truly dreamy feel and was one of the best episodes of one of the finest series ever. The most mind-blowing dream scene was, of course, the hospital wake-up in "An American Werewolf in London".
Stanley is played by Robert Tessier, another career henchman, who I first remember getting pummeled by Charles Bronson in Hard Times, 1975. RIP, 1990.
Biggest unanswered question with this film: What the heck did she see in Dave in the first place? I suppose she was keeping him around in case civilisation collapses, because he'd take care of hunting for food easily. But in the long run you might get bored of rabbit every night.
Worst one ever: Robot Monster.
You mean Dean? That was all part of the dream sequence.
This extravaganza is shockingly watchable. Its wacky as hell, but just appealing enough to keep watching just to see what will happen next! Ah the 80s...anything was possible!! By the way, love the voice overs for some of the characters.
The parking dream in Bananas is so random. Love it.
I particularly love the whole crucifixion motif---it's so vintage Woody. You know, I sure wish Woody Allen had kept making funny movies instead of the boring, pretentious, self-indulgent, unrelatable, and totally unfunny "petit bourgeois" garbage that he started cranking out post-ANNIE HALL. I also wish that I had gills and could breath underwater like Aquaman or the Kevin Costner character in WATERWORLD. And I wish too that I could find a pair of magic underpants which would confer super-strength upon me, and I wished that solid gold doubloons would shoot from my bunghole whenever I sneezed or broke wind. As you can see, I wish for many things. But alas so alas.
@@ashleys9397 i agree with Harlan Ellison who argued that Woody is just about the best speclative fiction (HE's prefered term for science fiction/fantasy genre) filmmaker citing that films like Zelig and Purple Rose of Cairo fit right into the genre. I consider Midnight in Paris to be the best time travel movie ever made.
I'm glad Woody moved away from his earlier style of comedy because he would have gone the way of Mel Brooks. Mel's later films have their moments but pale in comparison to his earlier output.
Brian Thompson, the rabbit killer- I've seen him in tons of stuff. I remember most as a vicious character on X-Files. The dream sequence that sticks in my mind, not because it was so great but because it started what became an annoying trend, was the final scene of the original Carrie, where Carrie fists her way out of the grave
Another Elizabeth Kaitan classic on this channel!
That one multi-faceted backstory was like something out of Cabin in the Woods.
‘Anyone have radioactive demon houses?’
This review is an especially satisfying and funny one. Thank you!
The dream sequences in "Dreamscape" are pretty damned good, considering it was practical effects back then.
Bad Dreams (1988) was a horror movie that promised a villain that would outdo Freddy Krueger. Instead of a supernatural antagonist, however, the flick served up a half-baked plot surrounding a medical researcher dosing unwitting patients with psychedelics.
Another great and funny show!! Thank you for doing all the editing and homework you do for these movies!
4:24 why does the guy in the pink shirt look so familiar? Also... is that Thor from *Starcrash?*
Clayton Rohner was in a bunch of bad movies in the 80's. I remember him from "Just one of the boys" and "April fool's day"
@@shannondore holy crap, he was Admiral Mark Jameson in the TNG episode "Too Short the Season" (with the decrepit admiral who was taking the youth serum that recrepified him to death).
@@TheRealNormanBates Yep! that's him. I remember that episode.
I thought Dean looked familiar, he's played by Brian Thompson, Shao Kahn from Mortal Kombat Annihilation.
He was also the first guy killed by the Terminator and was in several Star Trek series and the pilot of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (which I've just started watching again) :)
BTW, what the heck are you doing watching Mortal Kombat Annihilation? They used to burn people as heretics for that sort of behaviour back in my day...
Has a Altered States kinda vibe especially the tank scenes
Great review Weird movie
- Thanks!
Best movie dream scenes. Alien 3 and Resurrection in their entirety.
As for captain bunny killer I'll always remember him as the psycho from the Stallone movie Cobra. It was the way he said Pig! ''You can't kill me can you PIG!''
The REAL (and actually good) Inception is the 1984 film Dreamscape with Dennis Quaid and Kate Kapshaw. It has some awesome dream sequences, all done with super cool practical effects.
Best dream scene: Something something Oz I think? You probably never heard of it. Pee Wee's Big Adventure has some good ones too.
Worst dream scene, that's a little more interesting and requires some actual thought. Forget what I just said, it's Sucker Punch. It's the movie I thought of when Robin said "meaningless drivel".
Do you guys remember *Altered States* (1980) with William Hurt?
I think it's largely forgotten now, but it was a pretty big deal back in the day. Maybe you've already covered it?
Edit: Of course you all know about it. I forgot where I was. I feel silly now.
You're not going to turn into an alsatian are you?
Wake Forest alumnus here (undergrad). The fact that the "doctor" was kicked out of Duke only increases my respect for him. (Joke is funny if you're American. Well, it's explicable if you're American.)
The best ' it was all a dream ' was the end of INVADERS FROM MARS !!!
OK , not really a horror movie , but scared the daylights outa me , when I was seven!!!
I thought 'Dreamscape' was pretty intense!
Was that Gladys Kravitzs, of "Bewitched" at the fruitstand?
Why is it always a cabin in the woods? Why couldn't it be a hut on the beach?
There is one in "The Serpent And The Rainbow".
"We're five college students on our way to an old abandoned Cabin in the woods." Evil Dead the musical.
I guess I could just reference a movie but I wouldn't know which one.
Oh yeah. Cabin in the Woods.
Or a shed in the garden? Actually, "Tool Shed", sounds like a solid horror movie title.
@@euansmith3699 Kurt Russel mocked Bruce Campbell while shooting Escape from LA for his overdub of "Tool Shed" in Evil Dead.
@@tskmaster3837 I love how "Evil Dead" always seeks to get the point over without worrying too much about overly polishing each shot.
Whoa! I watched this last night. One of three screwy endings I've seen the past few days, the others being Grotesque (1988) and The Incubus (1982).
The dream within a dream in Night of the Comet was pretty good.
Brainstorm was a pretty good dream-based film, in its day.
I was going to write that one.
At first I didn't even recognize that d1ckhead cop from First Blood. He's the beardy professor guy. One of his last films.
Elizabeth Kaitan is an all time 80s crush for me. So cute
Wow! I forgot all about this movie! Nice choice bro!
..."You can't wear a bra; it messes with the uh, yeah"... 😂
3:01 wth are they eating? Tortilla chips, orange, some kine of sandwich and either an apple or a nectarine/peach.
Oh and can't forget the red wine to flush it down.
Best Dream Sequences: The ending of John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness, the zombies rising out of the graves in The Plague of Zombies
Worst Dream Sequence: The ending of Wes Craven's Deadly Friend
I'm so happy to see Nightwish getting some attention! I love this insanely bad movie. Sure, the ending is much of a payoff, but it's still a fun ride.
I'm with you! The movie is totally bonkers and makes no sense... but it's so much stupid, colourful fun! And: Liz Kaitan is in it and as always looks ridiculously beautiful and charismatic! What more to ask for?!
The mature writing of St. Elsewhere was cinema grade and their dream sequence episode was very sureal. I did like the dream with ZZTop performing "Legs".
One of the producers went on to create Homicide: Life on the Street and their dream sequence was set to the original version of Barbra Lewis' "Hello Stranger". A rookie detective has a stress nightmare about his unsolved child murder case.
I consider HOMICIDE: LIFE ON THE STREET to be possibly the best crime drama ever made for TV. The level of writing was exceptional and the ensemble cast acting exemplary; overall it was markedly better than the more widely watched but overrated NYPD BLUE. While ST. ELSEWHERE was a great series in a 1980s context, it doesn't really hold up all that well. Blame it on GREY'S ANATOMY, I guess.
@@ashleys9397 It was impeccable for the first 2 seasons. Absolutely flawless. Once they started the juke box treatment it began to slide a little. Totally jumped the shark when they stopped taking the events of the book and news articles as script inspiration and copied the "sexy cop soap opera" garbage everyone else was doing. God I loved that show.
Favorite or most memorable dream sequence? Hmmmmmm....For me the only one that springs most immediately to mind is the very stylized brief segment in Hitchcock's SPELLBOUND (1945). That's the movie with Gregory Peck as an amnesiac who ends up in the booby hatch. At some point his character is placed under deep hypnosis and experiences this really nutty dream that looks like something out of a Salvador Dali painting. That's most likely because the dream sequene was designed by Salvador Dali himself. Huh! How about that!
And here's some riveting movie history trivia: In its original unscissored version the sequence ran for some 20 minutes. When it was screened for executive producer David O. Selznick, he totally flipped out and---once he stopped spitting up all over himself---immediately ordered extensive cutting. You have to remember that this was back in the day when stuff-shirted producers & dour cigar-chomping studio executives called all the shots, and directors & writers had little option but to shut up & put up. Consequently just a little over two minutes eventually made it into the final product. But for a few surviving stills the excised footage was summarily trashed and flushed down the movie studio crapper. This seemingly arbitrary destruction naturally invited speculation as to its putatively objectionable content. So for all that anyone knows it could well have been some outlandishly phallo-centric, eroto-maniacal, flamboyantly masturbatory, pseudo-Freudian dementia involving giant talking penises ("Howdy! I'm Peter Pecker!") or man-devouring tentacled multi-titted monstrosities exploding out of ladies' nether parts (Dali was more than just a bit pervy). It's not exactly recorded what Hitch thought of it. Who knows? Maybe he actually dug it. Though that would have to be on account of him being a big ol' perv too.
The actor that plays Dean also played the alien bounty hunter in the X Files. The special effects also rival Capt Zep Space Detective ... Remember that. 😣😅
And Shao Kahn in MK Annihilation
Also the main bad guy in Stallone's ''Cobra''
I watched this movie recently and couldn't stop laughing. The awful acting, the boom mic being visible in multiple shots, crew members being visible in a few scene lingering in the corners, one character's hand injury switching from the right to the left and back to the right again. I get that they were attempting to capture the dream-like quality of 80's horror like Nightmare on Elm Street, Bad Dreams and even Dreamscape, but the result is a hilarious disaster.
The shackling scene seems to be borrowed from Michael Curtiz's Dr. X.
LOVE the dream sequences in Brazil
Honestly, that list of kooky occult stuff reminded me of the Harbinger of Doom-type from South Park
I understand subsequent owners of the actual Amityville house reported no problems and rather liked the place.
Because there was no haunting. They _were_ bedeviled by fans of the movie who thought nothing of trespassing and trying to steal things from the property.
@@julietfischer5056 That---but even worse was Ricky "The Acid King" Kasso and his Eighties metalhead minions holding an impromptu Black Mass on the front lawn. For real.
@@ashleys9397S - Hadn't heard of that bit of dipsh*ttery. Not surprised, unfortunately.
Review wishes? Hell yes... "Jug Face" by Chad Crawford Kinkle. Almost no budget, but the most original thing I've seen in the last decade :)
The first draft of the reboot of The House On Haunted Hill was quite the mess.
Hey, Donna is a rollerblade nun!
I own it and have seen it long ago and my brain completely erased its existence. I literally forgot it existed until this video.
Mr. Sardonicus/Night of the Lepus!
Getaway! He shouted as he hit puberty.
What about Dreamscape?
The series MASH had a very creepy dream sequence episode where everyone had nightmares. Since they were all war themed I guess you could call it horror. Maj. Houlihan in a white wedding dress splattered with blood ala Carrie White was pretty graphic.
Please do The Incredible Shrining Man.
The time when we rented three horrors for weekend.
How this film got greenlighted?
Any idea if this was one of those straight to cable movies.
That actress appeared in Friday the 13th part VII. She got great assets
Could you please do a video about John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars?
Another great dream scene was the one with Justinia Vail in Naked Souls. Now there was a woman with fantastic range.
Hey, thank you for reminding me of the TV series "Seven Days" that Justinia Vail was in.
@@euansmith3699 I love that series, though it certainly had it's bad moments. That was how I came across Naked Souls, I was looking for more of her work.
so if it's like Inception, did people also complain about how confused they were by THIS movie's not-that-fucking-complicated plot, too?
Last night I dreamed that the only horror movies left on the planet were the super shitty ones from the 1980s reviewed here on Bad Movie Review. Woke up in a cold sweat. But was it all just a team? Bwahaha-ha-ha!
Have you seen what's coming out of Holywood lately? The dream just turned into a nightmare...
Is this movie where the band got its name from?
Someone paid for some really cool art direction,
This movie has everything: mutants, aliens, demons, triple doors...
...and several varieties of bad acting. I guess,
Am i the only one who read the title and thought this was about the Finnish Symphonic Metal group?
DRESSED TO KILL had a great dream scene at the end of the movie. I don't what they were doing, but it sure as Hell wasn't Parapsychology. And they had to pull in UFOs and Cryptology ( Charles Fort is rolling in his grave). ALTERED STATES had sex with a cheesy version of THE LEGEND OF HELL HOUSE and their hate child had sex with THE HILLS HAVE EYES. I'm surprised I did hear chainsaws and banjo music. If you want to see a decent movie about Parapsychology, watch THE ENTITY ( based on a true case).
3:20 ask your father
Needs more Dutch Angles
Dutch Angles, "Get to the chopper!"
Mac, "We can't, Dutch; it is all skew-whiff!"
Drainiac - can't say I recommend it but it has dream sequences and some random nudity thrown in
Normally I'd watch anything with Brian Thompson.......but...no. Thanks for taking the bullet on this one, Robin.
Kim's an ordained minister now...
No comment about drinking wine from styrofoam cups?
Me at 15:
I couldn't care less about Inception, but the film The Thirteenth Floor is pretty good
If nothing but cannon fodder for the Wayan's brothers...
Seems like an extremely funny film
This film looks awful.
Blood and Roses has a great dream sequence. Very surreal.
I rented this movie, I thought it was okay. the ending sucked imho. I was sure Lori Singer started in this movie. Memories aren't trust worthy, at leat mine.
I watched _Nightwish_ a few months ago. It's certainly a steaming hot mess.