Nightmare on Elm St ripoff, anyone?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Bad Dreams
cheekeeteeta — 19 years ago(October 03, 2006 03:07 PM)
Am I the only one who realized what a ripoff of the NoES movies (particularly the 3rd) this flick is? The horribly burned evil character who stalks a heroine who is stuck in a hospital. A group of mentally unstable people who die in violently (like the Dream Warriors). The music that is way too similar to the score in the original Nightmare, the male doctor who ends up being very protective of the heroine. The allusion to DREAMS (not just the title but the little hallucinations the main character has) I did find that the movie was well directed and that and if I hadn't seen the Freddy movies so many times, I might have thought it was a pretty good movie. But I couldn't overlook the similarities.
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djtizzy — 19 years ago(March 07, 2007 06:17 PM)
i am a pretty big nightmare on elm st fan and i must say that when i watched bad dreams, nightmare didn't even occur to me. there may be similarities but it is by no means a rip off. the nightmare on elm st series doesnt have a monopoly on horror movies about nightmares.
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devilsreject1981-1 — 18 years ago(April 22, 2007 04:15 PM)
Thanks for the newsflash Tom Brokaw. Critics(and horror movie people) have talked about it for years. It's still a good late 80's horror film. Check out Esplatter or Arrowinthehead or any horror movie site for that fact.
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cheekeeteeta — 18 years ago(April 24, 2007 04:50 PM)
Well, forgive me for being 6 years old when this movie came out and not paying attention to the reviews made about it at the time. Besides, I wasn't asking the professional reviewers if they'd noticed. The point of this thread is to mention that I was distracted by the obvious similarities to Nightmare 3 and that prevented me from enjoying the movie as much as I would have if I hadn't seen it. No review will change that. So take the pointlessly sarcastic tone elsewhere. Thank you.
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AirRaidPatrol — 18 years ago(April 29, 2007 09:38 AM)
I agree, Bad Dreams has a lot of similarities to Dream Warriors. With Bad Dreams being released just one year after the Elm Street sequel I wouldn't be suprised if the director had been heavily influenced by it.
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LilRed_RoRo — 18 years ago(September 18, 2007 01:46 PM)
I saw this film on T.V. when I was a little kid (no, I don't know why I was watching it, lol) but I hadn't seen NoES and my friend was describing it to me and I was like "oh yeah I saw that on T.V. when I was a little kid". Then we went and watched NoES and realised it wasn't