10 Most Twisted Asylum Horror Movies

Released in 1988, Andrew Fleming's Bad Dreams sees Cynthia Weston (Jennifer Rubin) awaken in a psychiatric hospital after spending 13 years in a coma.

For Cynthia, she was part of the Unity Fields cult when she was a child. When cult leader Franklin Harris decides that his group need to embark on a mass suicide via fire, Cynthia is the only person who manages to just about make it out of a torched house alive.

Having been plunged into a coma following that trauma, Rubin's character is plagued by nightmarish flashbacks to her time at Unity Fields, with doctors also suspecting Cynthia may have a personality disorder as a result of these horrors.

It's not just flashbacks that Cynthia is having now, though, for she is also having visions of her fellow patients dying - with these visions soon becoming premonitions when said patients do indeed die in the ways Cynthia had seen it.

Adding further to the mental strain, cult leader Franklin is seemingly back from the dead and doing his best to goad Cynthia into taking her own life. With dreams within dreams - nightmares within nightmares, to be precise - Bad Dreams rockets to a conclusion involving corrupt doctors and mental manipulation.