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<B>Producer...........Dyrk Ashton</B></div> <div> <B>Executive Producer.....</B></div> <div> <B>Special Effects by Scott Simonson</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Dramatis Personae</U></B></div> <div> <B>Ben Dobs...............Nick Baldasare</B></div> <div> <B>Eric Baxter.............Rick Kesler</B></div> <div> <B>Julie Oxel..............Susan Pinsky</B></div> <div> <B>Professor Noxx......Norm Singer</B></div> <div> <B>D. F. White.............Daniel White</B></div> <div> <B>The Janitor.............John Dunleavy</B></div> <div> <B>Dream Seductress..Darby Vasbinder</B></div> <div> <B>Mrs. Oxel...............Marge Whitney</B></div> <div> <B>Ricky......................Lucas Simpson</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Critique</U></B><B>: A pretty cheap film, but with some good moments. The way Benjamin cautiously avoids the sewer drain for fear of monsters is a fun start. The little boy is scary enough but then his eyes go demonic--chill! The dream sequences are largely successful, though they eventually do get tired. The extremely stiff acting doesn't detract much from some real tension that is developed. Nice effect to have the action hinge on scraps of paper with messages written on them, recording what has gone before so that it won't get deleted from existence. There are occasional glitches, such as the embarrassing poem, but other than that, things move along pretty well. It is pretty funny when Eric, after going through hell with Ben, gets up in the morning and decides he's going to go be a TA even though everyone he knows back at the university is dead. As one can imagine, his attempt to put off the problem doesn't work out. A nice effect involves playing the prosthetic hook off the monster's claw. What started as a pretty good monster, evolved into a foam rubber thing that looks like a dog when director Woelfel insisted it be seen again. Also, the irritating demon voice cannot be understood. This film threatened to be an intelligent presentation of the power of dreams in our psychic life, but left irritating questions. What was that powerful monster so afraid of? What would anyone who found the damn piece of paper have done with it? Credits: Thanks to Helmut Schmidt?</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Plot Summary</U></B><B>: Ohio State University Department of Photography and Cinema. The phone rings marking the beginning of another of Benjamin's erotic monster dreams in which Benjamin's studies are interrupted by an impromptu game of hide and go seek with his little brother. He finds a great place behind a bookshelf but he can't get back out when a huge red monster attacks him. He awakens, book on his chest, in bed just as the thing is about to get him. Benjamin records his dreams on his very loud electric typewriter. At the university Eric Baxter the sexual harasser, has just moved into the office with the other Psychology Teaching Assistant, when an insane middle aged student walks and threatens to kill himself over a grade. Ha ha it's just Professor Knox doing an experiment. In lecture, the professor talks about the case of a man who turned on himself due to violent dreams - this man created a demon in his dreams to get himself and never moved until he died. As he speaks, Benjamin dreams his parents have been murdered and writes as he sleeps "Beyond Dreams Door Is Where Horror Lies". Benjamin gives Prof. Knox a copy of his dreams. Benjamin Dobbs is also participating in a dream research experiment conducted by the Teaching assistants. During his last session, she x gives him a mild sedative to see what effect it has. His recurring naked woman under a sheet appears inviting him to join her but her voice goes demonic when she says Its your dream and they won't...what? Professor Knox is intrigued or disturbed by Benjamin's paper. The little boy from Benjamin's dream appears to have found the professor. Knox is keeping his gun close to hand. Professor Knox calls Ben and asks him to come right over. When the Professor hangs up he has a vision of Ben's little friend saying I've found you. Ben describes the dream as like a chain, its a cliffhanger dream. The professor admits that "Ricky" from the dream had shown up in his neighborhood. They look at a case study about the student White who had lapsed into a coma. White had had the same dreams twenty years ago. The red monster appears to the professor. White appears and tells Ben that it hides its victims in nightmares. Benjamin sees the professor, badly gored ad reaching for the book with the White case study. The red monster finishes the job. Teaching Assistant Julie is followed around by the red balloon from a pleasant dream of Benjamin's. She tries to get a hold of professor Knox, but he seems to have disappeared from the face of the earth. Benjamin finds that some pages have been torn out of the case study. A Janitor with hooks for hands cleans up a pool of blood. When Benjamin goes to one of Knox's TAs, the ripped pages are gone. He tells the TA about the dream, and from the description, the TA realizes the place actually exists. The TA Eric explains it all as deja vu. When he suddenly finds keys to the trap door that fall out of nowhere, he is more than a bit curious. Julie says she's been up with dreams and is worried about Knox's apparent disappearance. Ben finds a missing sheet from the case study book describing the disappearance of the victims. Ben follows White through a sequence of sewer pipes. White urges Ben not to lose the paper in his pocket. He has a crumpled piece of paper himself. Ben has come to realize that this isn't precisely a dream anymore. There are shadows and snatches of the red monster, but Ben manages to escape. Eric and Julie watch a tape of Ben dreaming in which he yells that he can't feel anything. The tape has strange sequences of static. As Julie watches, a corridor appears mysteriously on the screen. Eric, who went out for a drink, begins finding paper airplanes. He then runs into the cackling, handless janitor who wants to shake. He urges Julia that it's time to leave the lab. Good choice. Eric picked up some bones on the floor in the studio, and comes to believe they belong to some lizard. Eric reads and realizes that he has experienced handless janitor mentioned in the dream. Ben chases someone around a ruin in the woods. Inside, there is a group of lost looking zombies with cheap makeup. He finally finds White. Apparently the problem is a chain started up when the first person forgot his first dream. After an uncomfortable recitation of a poem, Eric emerges from reading Ben's dream and he thinks he sees Julia having her head pulled off by a monster. Ben then opens his door to find Julie dripping with blood. Meanwhile Ben drives and sees Julie at each turn directing the way. When he arrives at her apartment, it does seem his vision was veridical. Eric says they will be safe at his place. When they get there, however, the place is in a shambles. The teeth have been stolen. They decide the monster is covering itself. Eric decides he wants out of Ben's nightmare. Ben's left to try to lure the monster back into the trap door with the scrap of paper and confronts a sneering denizen from dreamland who considers him a dreamless wimp. All Eric's attempts to stay out of Ben's dreams appear to have been thwarted. He finds himself stumbling around in the Long Home Inn, and soon inexorably sucked into the bowels of nightmare land. The dream denizens seem very adamant about getting a hold of the scrap of paper that Ben hid with him.</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>