Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

Greenes Please don't spend money on this.

Rijndri Load of rubbish!!

Mathilde the Guild Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Uriah43 "Alex Gardner" (Dennis Quaid) is a gifted young man who has the ability to do things of a psychic nature that normal people cannot. As a result his talent is in great demand from several sources. Gamblers at the race track want him for his amazing ability to pick winners. A scientist by the name of "Dr. Paul Novotny" (Max von Sydow) wants him to explore dream research at a nearby university. Yet another person named "Bob Blair" (Christopher Plummer) works for the government and has more sinister plans for him. Now rather than reveal any more of this movie and risk spoiling it for those who haven't seen it I will just say that this was an enjoyable sci-fi film in spite of the mediocre special effects found in some of the dream sequences. I especially liked the performance of David Patrick Kelly who played the mentally disturbed psychic named "Tommy Rae Glatman". Likewise, Kate Capshaw (as "Jane DeVries") certainly didn't hurt the scenery in any way. In any case, while it isn't a great movie by any means it manages to entertain and I rate it as slightly above average.

AaronCapenBanner Dennis Quaid plays Alex Gardner, a young man with psychic abilities who is on the run from gangsters who want him to work for them.(He can pick the winners from horse races). Alex is saved by the timely intervention by his former teacher(Max Von Sydow) who wants his help with the secret government project he had once been involved with, in order to help both a young boy traumatized by nightmares, and also the U.S. president(played by Eddie Albert) who is having horrible nightmares about WWIII, and so wants a treaty with the Russians, which forces in the government(led by Christopher Plummer) want to prevent...Exciting and highly entertaining film is well acted by its stars, and has imaginative and scary visuals(including the Snake man) that work quite well. Villains may be one-dimensional, but film still works, and has a good score and satisfying ending.

wingedheartart I don't remember seeing this in the 80's, but watched it on AMC recently. The dream scenes may have been "cheesy" as some put it, but they worked. Better than having them all shiny and computerized. The style looked a lot like the Twilight Zone movie....all crooked doors, funky angles etc. It might be cool to see it redone, maybe not TOO computerized though. More psychological than visual. Some seriously big names in this movie though. Was fun seeing Dennis Quaid all perky and cocky, like he was in Breaking Away. Have fun...there is nothing better than a good sci-fi or any sci-fi for that matter!!!

Christopher T. Chase Less an outright "horror" film than a sci-fi/fantasy actioner, DREAMSCAPE gets the score it does from me for reasons of fondly-remembered nostalgia, and because of its strategy of making up for the super low-budget special effects by front-loading the movie with some of the best actors ever assembled for an indie project like this. Dr. Paul Novotny (FLASH GORDON'S Ming, Max Von Sydow) has developed an extraordinary system that allows psychically-gifted subjects to enter the subconscious minds of other subjects and actually affect the shape and the outcome of their dreams, (hence the title.) His most gifted subject, Alex Gardner (Dennis Quaid) is the one he wants to work with the most. But it seems Alex abandoned Novotny's experiments some years ago, in favor of using his gifts to play the ponies AND the "honeys."With a little "friendly persuasion" from the project "facilitator", the sinister Fed Bob Blair (Christopher Plummer, still shaking off his SOUND OF MUSIC image), Alex comes reluctantly 'back into the fold', where Paul Novotny's associate, the curvaceous Dr. Jane DeVries (Kate Capshaw, the future Mrs. Spielberg) makes the prospect of participation a lot easier for Alex.Once on board, Alex immediately butts heads with the only other psychic who has successfully navigated the "dreamscape," the sociopathic Tommy Ray Glatman (David Patrick Kelly from 48 HRS. and THE WARRIORS), a very disturbed - and disturbing - individual who would seem a very unlikely candidate to be allowed to go stomping through somebody's head. Things become a lot more clear and sinister when Alex has a "chance" encounter with horror author and conspiracy theorist "Charlie Prince," (George Wendt in a very different role from 'Norm' on CHEERS.) I guess when Stephen King saw this movie, he must have taken this character as a sign that he had truly 'made it to the big time.'Charlie explains the situation to an already suspicious Alex: it seems that the President (Eddie Albert) has been having some vivid and horrifying nightmares about a nuclear holocaust, and his dreams have influenced his decision about what action to take at an important upcoming summit with the Russian government (yeah, THAT is how old this flick is, folks.) So, do the math. It isn't very hard to figure out what Blair and Glatman's connection is with Dr. Novotny's experiments, or that it's really important that Our Hero Alex steps up his game to stop them.So, yes, DREAMSCAPE obviously cribs from A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET and even some parts of THE TERMINATOR. And the special effects, considered state-of-the-art in '84 are more than state-of-the-hokey now. (With all the newly advanced CGI technology, maybe it's time to dust this one off for a remake.)But the casting definitely works as everyone (particularly Kelly) deliver some strong, believable performances, and there are cameos by some familiar genre favorites, (Chris Mulkey, Kelly's co-star as part of the TWIN PEAKS ensemble, and John Carpenter favorite Peter Jason just to name two). And there you have it. For what it's worth to those who saw it decades ago (like Yours Truly), DREAMSCAPE still holds some entertainment value. For those who have never seen it, it's an interesting example of '80's indie film-making, and a chronicle of how far effects and makeup work have come since.