Dreamscape (1984)

Director
Joseph Ruben

Main cast
Dennis Quaid; Max von Sydow; Christopher Plummer; Eddie Albert; Kate Capshaw

Genres
Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Description
A government funded project looks into using psychics to enter people's dreams, with some mechanical help. When a subject dies in his sleep from a heart attack Alex Gardner becomes suspicious that another of the psychics is killing people in the dreams somehow and that is causing them to die in real life. He must find a way to stop the abuse of the power to enter dreams.


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