Dreamscape (1984)
Dreamscape is an American dark science-fiction adventure film from 1984 directed by Joseph Ruben. Starring Dennis Quaid, Kate Capshaw, Max von Sydow, and Christopher Plummer.
Plot
Alex Gardner a 26 year old has strong psychic abilities. 
He was once in a psychic abilities scientific study under the leadership of Dr. Paul Novotny, but left the study seven years ago without a word or a trace, no longer wanting to live continually hooked up to electrical probes.
Dr. Novotny does locate Alex for the two to discuss his latest scientific breakthrough: dream therapy. Through electronic connections, he has discovered a way for psychics to be able to enter into the dreams, or as the case may be, nightmares of others. 
This in order to treat the patients through or in dealing with the dreams/nightmares. Alex is attracted to Novotny‘s associate, Jane DeVries. (Capshaw). 
the President himself has of late been suffering from recurring nightmares – something only his inner circle knows – which is now dictating his political agenda. Maybe Alex can stop the nightmares with his capabilities.
Notable scenes
The dream with the snake.
Making of Dreamscape
Was the second film to be Rated PG-13 under then new MPAA ratings guidelines following Red Dawn (1984), which had come out weeks prior to this film’s release.
Dennis Quaid was the first and only choice for Alex Gardner, after the producers loved his dedication for the role and the project during its pre-production stage.
Originally the producers wanted Maurice Jarre to write the music for the film orchestrally, but Jarre insisted on scoring the film electronically because he felt that it was the right approach for the material and also sets the tone of the film.
One of three movies to come out within a year of each dealing with dream manipulation and its potential consequences. The other two were Brainstorm (1983), released a year earlier, and A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), released 3 months later.
Kate Capshaw starred as the love-interest in not one, but two 1984 movies that featured a scene where a man’s still-beating heart was ripped from his chest: this movie and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984).
Christopher Plummer and Max von Sydow would be in competition with each other for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 2012, in which Plummer succeeded.
Christopher Plummer and Max von Sydow both voiced characters in the video game Skyrim (2011).
Tommy says he saw Enter the Dragon (1973) six times, which starred Bruce Lee. David Patrick Kelly who plays Tommy, later went on to star in The Crow (1994) which starred Brandon Lee, Bruce’s son.
Our view on Dreamscape
Dreamscape is a scary sci-fi thriller about dreams. Made in 1984, the same year as A Nightmare on Elm Street, Dreamscape is suspiciously similar, thematically, to Wes Craven’s famous horror flick. Since Craven’s film had been in development for some time before Dreamscape, one can only assume that the people behind this thriller had caught wind of Wes’s project, and decided to borrow certain elements for their own dream-based adventure. 
It doesn’t really matter, however, because the film ends up taking its own path: where Wes’s film was purely an out and out horror, Dreamscape is part action, part sci-fi, part horror, and part comedy. Exploitflix must see!
