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Another day, another horror film to review.

In 1988, dreams and nightmares were playing a huge part in the horror genre due to the

success of the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise, so it's no wonder that others tried to jump

on the idea of people being put in real danger by their nightmares.

One of those movies is the movie I am reviewing today.

I am Torstein from Cinema Terror and here I present to you, Bad Dreams.

Bad Dreams starts in the 70's where we see a the last day of the Unity cult.

Their leader Harris is getting his family together for their final day on earth as he

has convinced everyone to drench themselves in gasoline before he sets their house with

everyone in it on fire.

The only survivor was a teenage girl named Cynthia who managed to escape from the burning

room, but was knocked unconscious before she was able to get out of the house.

Her life was saved by firefighters, but she was injured so badly that she had to spend

the next thirteen years in a coma.

To help her cope and come to terms with her past, she is put in a psychiatric hospital

after she has awaken from her coma.

Her struggles to adapt gets tougher when she starts to get visions and nightmares of Harris

and when other patients in the hospital start to turn up dead, Cynthia believes that Harris

has found a way to transcend beyond death and are out to get her and everyone close

to her.

The only thing I knew about Bad Dreams before pressing play on it today, was that it was

supposed to be a Nightmare on Elm Street ripoff and that it has been released on DVD and BluRay

on a double feature with Visiting Hours by the great guys at Scream Factory.

When it comes to being a Freddy Krueger ripoff film, yeah, Bad Dreams does have several similarities

and the entire setup does take place in a mental hospital with a group of people that

are having struggles, similiar to what we get in Nightmare on Elm Street 3 and they

of course also does give the bad guy played by Richard Lynch some burned makeup effects,

which makes it hard to not see the Freddy Krueger connection.

But I love Freddy Krueger and I do not mind ripoffs if they can bring something new to

the table, so I don't hold this against Bad Dreams.

What I will hold against it is how messy the story of the film turned out to be.

It feels unfocused and it didn't take advantage of the creative freedom you can have when

you are dealing with nightmares or hallucinations as there isn't all that much dreaming going

on in Bad Dreams as you might think.

The premise of having a cult leader come back from death to try to get the one cult member

that got away is pretty cool, but if you are going to have a dead villain come back to

life, you have to do something interesting with him.

Here the bad guy is basically just Richard Lynch, with little else to him.

I never got an understanding about his powers, his ultimate goal or why he needed to kill

off all of the other patients in the hospital.

Perhaps it was explained during the film, but I didn't catch it.

I generally tend to favor Lynch, but I felt he was just there during the film and could

not get engaged in his character.

However, one of the cast members that I did enjoy was Jennifer Rubin in the leading role

as Cynthia.

She was actually in Nightmare on Elm Street 3 only a year before as Taryn and while I

am sure that helped in getting her this part, she does prove that she also deserved it.

I found her charming in Bad Dreams and I quickly found myself starting to care for her.

The rest of the supporting cast are also mostly decent, but few of their characters got much

interest from me, except Dean Cameron, who was surprisingly good as the character named

Ralph.

I'm only used to seeing him in comedies that does not exactly rely on his great acting

skills, so it was fun to see him impress me in Bad Dreams.

A character or rather choice for character that I did not like at all was that they made

Bruce Abbott's character Dr. Alex Karmen fall in love with Cynthia.

I guess this was the only way they could add some romance to the film, outside of whatever

the hell this was but it's just wrong to have a psychiatrist

fall for a younger patient who are clearly lost and confused about everything that is

going on.

Bad Dreams is an uneven film that I had a decent time watching.

It's not a film that I would give a recommendation for, but if you are a big fan of 80's horror

then there are way worse films out there to be explored than this one.

Bad Dreams is not going to be a film that sticks with me, but did it provide me with

80 minutes of acceptable entertainment, so as such I am going to give Bad Dreams the

average score of 2.5 out of 5.

A fun fact about Bad Dreams is that they actually had the big hit Sweet Child 'o Mine from Guns

'n Roses on the soundtrack and also playing during the end credits.

This was before Guns had made it big and they were actually considering shooting a music

video for the song using clips from this movie, but opted for a different idea instead.

I hope you enjoyed this review of Bad Dreams and if you are new around these parts of Youtube,

then check out my channel as there are plenty more of this stuff to be found on it.

Thank you for watching Cinema Terror, see you next time.

For more infomation >> Bad Dreams (1988) - Movie Review - Duration: 5:55.

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Could this be the BEST DIM SUM restaurant in North America? Top 5 Dim Sum in North America Part 5 - Duration: 12:48.

hi everybody welcome back for Richmond Canada today again we'll be going to

five different dimsum restaurants and picking out our top three

today we're at deluxe Chinese restaurant it's right off No 3 (Road)

it's convenient located right by Aberdeen station

Richmond is actually the first contact you if you're traveling by air

Richmond is the firstcity you'll land into this is where the Vancouver International Airport is at so

if you're having a layover come grab some dimsum

luckily came on a weekday. there wasn't a long line we just sat down

and we ordered and the food came relatively quickly actually

with the menus as usual it's like a scantron sheet but it's got English on

it so if you want to come and try it out and it's very user friendly

so this is one of the fancier Chinese restaurants that they give you your own public chopsticks too

along with your personal one so that's why you get two sets

they also offer you a toothpick

sure, this cold dish is jellyfish head with cilantro

that's this one jellyfish head with cilantro so we had jellyfish previously in our

other episodes but this one is a bit more interesting

usually jellyfish comes in like strands and they look like thin noodles

but this one is the jellyfish head looks like a whole head

this looks interesting I've never had this before too I'm looking forward to this one

let me grab a cucumber too

it's not super spicy it just has that hot chili sauce taste

but it's not that spicy it's super crunchy, I bit into it and it just kind of falls off

it's easier to chew than I expected I thought it'd be super chewy

but it's very crunchy instead

it's just as crunchy of this cucumber it's got like kind of the same texture as a cucumber

when you bite into it super jello-y, like jiggles when you move it

so I'm guessing this is the head and that's kind of the tail

although it's not spicy at first but I think if you eat more and more of it

I think the spice will build up

so next let's try the fried shrimp dumpling

yeah all the ones we tried are steamed dumpling

so I think we'll give it a nice texture let's try it

not as oily as I thought it would be so the skin is super crunchy and

but it still has that glutenous skin feel

you can tell before it's deep fried it has a very chewy skin

but at the same time it gets that crunch you first bite into it and

then the shrimp inside is super juicy it tastes very fresh

it's just shrimp and shrimp paste nothing else inside there's no vegetable fillings

or anything like I'm just gonna experiment with the spicy sauce

I like spicy foods I'm gonna try this because this spicy sauce tastes like LaoGanMa

it has a nutty taste to it too

I like it it's kinda like a different flavor

sometimes we use mustard on these shrimp dumplings

but with this spicy sauce it's kind of different it has more chinese flavor to it

I asked for the XO sauce I'm gonna try it later again with the XO sauce

this is called steamed hometown minced pork rice noodle

so it looks like steamed rice noodle but a little bit different

it's minced pork on top and then underneath it's just rice noodles

but it looks super different than the normal rice noodles that we usually get it at dim sum

it's like wavy and it looks very layered

and it came with a sauce it's like a sweeter soy sauce I guess I'll just dump it all in

yeah it's like chewing on a gummy bear but salty gummy bear

the layers doesn't just give you the texture it also traps all the soy sauce

when we worked our way into the more middle part they steamed it with just the minced pork

s o these ones underneath they soaked up all the minced pork juiciness

and the goodness of it as well

this is like a bigger steamer basket compared to the rest as you can see

and this is only ten bucks but it definitely fills you up

now I'll try the shumai

so their take on the shumai they also have truffles on the top as well

it looks so juicy it's like glistening

YES! that's a huge serving of it's like a big spoon of truffles on top

I think with their servings are quite generous too most of the dishes come in fives so

there is 5 shrimp dumplings there's 5 minced pork dumplings

usually sometimes it's usually 4

yeah like all over yeah

whao so the first taste you taste is the truffles because it's so strong

but afterwards it mellows out and then you get that shrimp dumpling taste but

it's so juicy on the inside and there's actually a whole scallop am I wrong

it was like a cross-section of a scallop

truffles on top super juicy on the inside and still taste the juice

so next up let's try the bean curd wrap with prawn and abalone sauce

wow abalone, that seems fancy.

so the beancurd wrap on the outside is very tender

you can barely taste it kind of like the melts and then goes away

and then instantly you taste shrimp it tastes very very it's very juicy

and then that carrot and the celery gives that fresh flavor has that little sweetness to it

the carrots and the celery is a nice touch it gives it a sweetness

like a natural sweetness and juiciness that brings out the flavor of the shrimp even more

next up steamed spare ribs

steamed spare ribs is very well marinated and it's very tender

they didn't use black bean sauce like a lot of the other Chinese restaurants do

but instead they use chili flakes on top but it doesn't taste spicy at all

I think the chili flakes is just to kind of suppress the gaminess of pork

like how people use a lot of garlic on pork so there's also pumpkins underneath

and it soaks up all the oiliness so the pumpkin has been the steamer for a long time

as you can see it's super soft. The pumpkin is good too. It still retained that pumpkin flavor

although it's been steamed with the port for a long time it's still very good

for dessert we have green tea mango crêpe so if you're allergic peanuts do not order this

it's got tons of peanuts on the inside it's loaded in with peanuts

the first thing I noticed is when I bite into it's the outer layer it's kind of mochi

it's kind of like rice cake texture it's kind of che wy

although it's green tea but you don't taste green tea it's not bitter at all

and then instantly you get peanut explosion of peanut flavor

so the peanuts are very sweet it's crushed peanuts with a lot of sugar

and that's wh at gives you the sweetness of it

right after you get into the mango the mango is a bit sour so I kind of cuts through that sweetness

the fruitine ss of the mango is a good combination

it's a nice touch at the end to bring out that peanut flav or. it's a good dessert I like it

it's something I've ne ver had before but I'm pleasantly surprised.

so this dish was highly recommended by our friend

this is the same dish that they have this in the GuangZhou restaurant

This is the exact dish they have in GuangZhou China

my friend been having this for over 20 years

and it's good yes a lot of history into this desert in this restaurant

wow it's so cold outside but that was a great lunch

the total bill came to be close to CAD$75 we ordered seven dishes I fed the two of us

the most expensive dish was the jelly fish head

the average price is nine dollars each dish so it's more towards the higher end

of the dim sum restaurants we've been to however the servings are a bit larger

with the shu mai the minced pork dumplings they give us five and the

shrimp dumplings there is also five shrimp dumplings I would recommend the

I'd recommend the steamed rice roll that one is quite delicious and if you're hungry that one

is definitely the one to get instead of like usual fried rice or beef noodle

that's a good substitute for that carbohydrate if you're craving that and

it's quite filling and on the plus side it's very good what can go wrong

another dish I recommend is the dessert the Green Team mango pancake

that was one of the dishes that our friend highly recommended she told us it's a must get

if you go there and I'm glad we had an insider to point that out for us yeah so

overall the restaurant is very nice it's got a great interior great service

great food most importantly

although it's a little bit more expensive but

it's definitely worth the price I would definitely come back again

next episode we'll be doing a full comprehensive review of all the five different dim sum

restaurants and pick out our top three the best three in North America

let us know in the comment below which of the five dim sum restaurants you think is the best

or if you ever been there let us know

thanks for watching

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