Harris (Richard Lynch) is the Jim Jones-style leader of a cult called Unity Fields who dies during a mass suicide in a fire in 1973.
Somehow he returns 13 years later to terrorise the lone survivor, Cynthia (Jennifer Rubin) when she finally comes out of a coma and is being cared for by psychiatrist, Dr Berrisford (Harris Yulin) and Dr Alex Karmen (Bruce Abbott).
With its burnt-faced baddy and dream-like visions, the film is highly derivative of the Nightmare on Elm Street series but holds up quite well as a decent standalone slasher flick.
Unfortunately, the deaths are neither imaginative nor particularly gruesome and the final-act twist is just dumb.
Cynthia
Jennifer Rubin Dr Alex Karmen
Bruce Abbott Harris
Richard Lynch Ralph
Dean Cameron Dr Berrisford
Harris Yulin Connie
Susan Barnes Victor
John Scott Clough Lana
Elizabeth Daily Gilda
Damita Jo Freeman Ed
Louis Giambalvo Miriam
Susan Ruttan Detective Wasserman
Sy Richardson Young Cynthia
Melissa Francis Hettie
Sheila Scott Wilkinson Edgar
Ben Kronen Ron the Pharmacist
Charles Fleischer
Director
Andrew Fleming
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