Hammerman Ikon

Hammerman Ikon Film Guide

Dreamscape
1984
***
Director: Joseph Ruben
Cast: Dennis Quaid, Christopher Plummer, Max von Sydow, Eddie Albert, Kate Capshaw, David Patrick Kelly, George Wendt, Chris Mulkey

The gifted but selfish Alex joins a secret project where psychics like him enter people's dreams for therapy purposes. However, he discovers that a government agent is harnessing the mefhod to assassinate people in their sleep. This clever science fiction thriller is like a cross between The Dead Zone (1983) and A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), with a little bit of Inception (2010) thrown in for good measure. The story is intriguing but everything else, the not so special effects in particular, have dated poorly.