Review of Beyond Dream's Door

Beyond Dreams Door - 1989 (This Films Rates an A ) A fun game of hide and go seek turns into a frantic nightmare but telling what is real from what is just a dream proves difficult. The story is a little jumpy right from the beginning, and it loses some cohesiveness but not the charm. A Psychology professor, Eric Baxter, is teaching about psychosis. Student Ben Dobbs attends an experimental dream lab where assistant Julie handles much of the experiments. On Ben's last day of the experiment, he takes a sleeping pill, and his nightmares start to never end. Reality just melts away. A hideous red monster terrorizes and kills, and it looks to have come from a door at the school. Seems like the lifelong dreams forgotten have come back to terrorize Ben and all those before him. A low budget with poor acting and dodgy script that is filled with some fantastic moments. Many of these are brief but include the poetry at the 46 min mark and just before the end of the film. The effects are pretty bad, the gore laughable, but the crazy dream sequences make this all seem worth it. A handless janitor, wandering zombies, bleeding water, headless bodies, and a foot gnawing book. T positive but nothing significant. A unique and twisted film where beyond dreams door is where horror lies.