Review of Dreamscape

Dreamscape (1984)
8/10
Immensely satisfying sci-fi thriller
27 October 2019
An atmospheric and creepy sci-fi thriller that's still immensely satisfying today, despite '80s artifacts like a cheesy synthesizer score and Kate Capshaw's hair.

A young and devilishly handsome Dennis Quaid plays a psychic who, as part of a college experiment in sleep disorders, learns to enter people's dreams.

Intrigue and murder arise when the government takes over the program to train assassins.

Dreamy, intense, surprisingly sexy and sometimes scary as hell (stop-motion or not, Snakeman will haunt your own nightmares), "Dreamscape" still holds up after more than 30 years.

Kate Capshaw is alluring, genre greats Christopher Plummer and Max Von Sydow are, of course, tremendous, and '80s bad guy staple David Patrick Kelly sneers appropriately as the villain.
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