Good dreams, bad script. This is a fantasy thriller which asks us to believe that someone with telekinetic powers could project themselves into another's dreams and, if need be, frighten that person so much that they could die from a heart attack in their sleep. The dream sequences that result from this imaginative idea are almost worthy of the most macabre paintings of Bosch, with death and decay ruling over all. The script, alas, is strictly for laughs - 'It's beginning to affect my job,' moans the nightmare-afflicted President (Eddie Albert, doing well in view of some of his dialogue), who is the next target of a dream-assassin hired by evil mastermind Christopher Plummer - and not even the personable Dennis Quaid, as the paranormal hero, nor Kate Capshaw, as surely the sexiest researcher in the States, can do much to retrieve it. If you can close your ears and keep your eyes open, though, this is an often fascinating film.

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