Welcome to Thriller Recapped, Today, I will show you an American Psychological Horror
film called, In Dreams, Spoilers Ahead, watch out and take care.
The movie begins in rural Massachusetts with two scuba divers swimming to search for a
missing little girl in the sunken Northfield Reservoir.
Near the lake where the scuba divers and boats gather, Claire Cooper helps her daughter,
Rebecca Cooper, in memorizing her lines for an upcoming Snow-White play.
Later at home, Claire draws illustrations of her bizarre dreams.
While from outside, Claire’s husband, Paul, comes back to home from abroad.
Rebecca welcomes him with hugs and kisses.
Not long after he notices the drawings of Claire, and she explains that the dreams she
saw were of a little girl, in an orchard following either a man or a woman with red hair.
Paul suggests her to report it to the cops, but she objects it, she mentions that the
scuba divers were investigating the reservoir earlier, and she believes that the little
girl they are searching for is still alive.
Later that night, Paul says he’ll leave for a flight after Rebecca’s play to Claire,
he then brings out the kimono he bought from Tokyo, and he gives it to Claire.
Soon, they kiss until they fall onto the bed, while kissing, Claire sees a vision of the
missing little girl following someone.
She cries because it’s terrible to see a little child being lured by a stranger.
The following day, Paul reports Claire’s dream about the missing girl to Detective
Jack Kay.
At first, Jack entertains by Paul’s report, until he gets confused when Paul says the
kidnapper is either a man or a woman.
Jack tries to end the conversation when Paul explains that Claire is not crazy.
He then reveals that they found the missing little girl, at the bottom of a storm drain
with stones in her pocket.
Jack excuses himself because he’s busy in investigating about the murderer.
Later at home, Claire decorates Rebecca’s wings for the play and once again practices
her lines.
Rebecca is running through her script, when a letter falls out of Paul’s jacket that
she’s wearing.
Claire smokes while watching the news about the discovered missing little girl, then Paul
gets back to home, and she confronts him, about his mistress in Australia which she
learnt about from the letter.
Paul reasons that nothing happened between him and his mistress, he also brings up Claire’s
obsession of her dreams, and he feels tired every time he gets back to home, he tells
her that their love is gone.
Later, they both prepare for Rebecca’s play, and they watch her doing her role perfectly,
after the play he says goodbye to both of them, then Rebecca joins her friends, while
the couple reconcile and share a moment before he leaves.
Claire returns to the crowd and searches for Rebecca, panic surges through her when every
little girl in the crowd is not Rebecca, she then calls for a search party, and in the
middle of the woods is Rebecca’s wing costume, stuck on a bush, Paramedics arrive after Claire’s
yelling.
While she slips into sleep, she sees a vision of her daughter cornered in a room, and a
person approaches her, she realizes the vision she saw foretells the events.
The following day, Claire calls for police and detective Jack to the reservoir, a scuba
diving team searches the waters, and beneath the surface is Rebecca’s sunken corpse.
Paul arrives at the reservoir, and he wants to talk to Claire, but she can’t speak from
the shock.
He then asks Jack, if it’s Rebecca’s corpse, while Claire absentmindedly drives Paul’s
car onto the road.
Detective Jack decides to follow Claire.
Suddenly, Claire drives towards the cliff, submerging into the water.
While unconscious, Claire dreams about an underwater house and writes on the wall: My
daddy was a dollar.
I wrote it on a fence.
My daddy was a dollar.
Not worth a hundred cents.
Six weeks have passed, and Claire wakes up on a hospital bed with Paul sitting beside
her.
Dr. Stevens explains that she survived the incident.
Instead of feeling grateful, she asks why they even brought her back, Claire eventually
falls asleep, and she dreams of a boy chained to a bed while water floods his room, the
boy shouts for his mom, while trying to get out of the room.
Suddenly, Dr. Stevens wakes her up and notices her bumping heart rate.
He then recommends a psychiatrist to help her, and stop her dreams.
Asleep once again, she sees apples everywhere, and at the far end of the hall is a man singing
with a deep voice.
She wakes up, and she hears Paul singing the same song she heard in her dreams.
Paul explains that it’s her, who’s singing it and he’s only singing along with her.
Then Dr. Stevens introduces her with Dr. Silverman, the psychiatrist who will help Claire with
her dreams.
She asks them if another child is missing, but she starts doubting her own sanity, Claire
leaves the hospital with Paul, they arrive back home to find a new housekeeper, Mary,
waiting for them.
Paul assures Claire that they’ll deal with grief together, then She locks Rebecca’s
room and goes to her bedroom.
Paul, who took their bags from the car, searches for Claire and he finds her asleep on their
bed.
During night-time, he makes out on the bed with Claire, while they’re busy locking
lips, Claire’s visions return.
A man calls for her and says, I know you’ve been dreaming of me, and I’ve been dreaming
about you.
Then she kisses the man in her dream, Claire forgets about Paul and accidentally bites
his lips.
Paul shouts in pain and washes the blood off his lips.
She then cries and apologizes for her visions appearing out of nowhere.
She says she’ll try to cope with the nightmares alone, and if none of that works, she’ll
let Dr. Silverman help her.
The following day, Claire sunbathes while smoking, then Paul appears beside her and
says goodbye, since he has a flight that day.
Claire works in her office, drawing apples on the computer.
Then she accidentally spills the red paint, and washes it off in the sink.
Mary asks if she is okay, and Claire says she only needs to buy more cigarettes.
Outside, she hears Dobie barking on a swing, she runs to the lawn and sees an apple on
the swing, then a cassette player plays a song, she retrieves it from the desk chair
and throws it to the ground, destroying it.
She then follows Dobie, who’s endlessly barking and running towards the orchard.
While running she bumps into Detective Jack, He says that Paul advised them to check the
perimeter of the house every half an hour, Then Claire asks if he saw Dobie, but Jack
says they didn’t see anyone in the woods.
She then returns to her house, and she rages up in the kitchen, she throws every apple
on the counter at the sink, causing the juice to flood the sink.
She then rushes to her office, she then hears a computer typing the sentences she saw in
the dream, then it repeats every word she says.
Claire shouts at the monitor and throws it out the window, Paul gets back to home, and
stumbles upon words written on the wall with red paint.
Then he goes to their room and finds Claire with her wrists bloodied from self-harm.
At the hospital, Dr. Silverman shows Claire photographs of the words she wrote on the
wall, she reasons that somebody made her do it, as for the cuts, it’s her choice because
she has given up on life.
Doctor then asks about the meaning of the verses, she claims that she doesn’t know,
she claims further that it’s from somebody else’s childhood and not hers.
Doctor asks her if the boy in her dream and the man in the orchard are the same, and she
agrees but it doesn’t make any sense.
Paul goes home alone and finds Mary looking for Dobie, who's been missing all day.
Mary asks about Claire, and Paul answers that they want him to put Claire into a psychiatric
institution.
While Claire sleeps at a medical care building, she wakes up to Dobie’s sudden appearance
at her window, and she follows it outside and onto the road, she tries to catch Dobie
on the road, when suddenly an upcoming truck is about to hit her.
Luckily, she is saved but it causes mayhem on the street.
Paul, along with the police and Dr. Silverman, arrives to retrieve the unstable Claire.
Doctor then asks Paul’s opinion on allowing the psychiatric institution to take Claire.
The following day, Claire dreams about going into an abandoned hotel, and in-room 401,
she finds Dobie eating her husband’s corpse, she wakes up in a white cell room and she
panics from seeing her husband dead.
Nurse Floyd and Rosco arrive there, she believes Paul is dead, she then instructs the nurses
to contact police, and to go to an abandoned hotel room, to look for her murdered husband.
However, the nurses want to put her to sleep, she cries because the man in her dreams is
making her crazy.
Paul gets back to home, he tells Mary that he’ll sell the house and move into a new
place, he wants to do anything that will help him get Claire out of the hospital.
Then suddenly, someone calls Paul to inform him about Dobie’s location.
Paul arrives at the same hotel Claire saw in her dreams, he enters the room number 401,
and he finds Dobie tied to an old bed, he tries to untangle the knot, when someone stabs
his eyes.
Claire tells Dr. Silverman not to let Paul visit the hotel at all, but it’s too late.
She attacks Dr. Silverman because they’re not listening to her, and Nurses purge Claire’s
room to sedate her in a different room.
Later that night, Claire stays in a new room with a new roommate.
While trying to sleep, she removes the old wallpaper and sees a name, "RIP Vivian," engraved
on the wall.
Claire tells her roommate that the person who carved the words on the wall is the same
man who’s in her head.
The next day, Claire shares with Dr. Silverman about her dream, that the man in her head
is Vivian, who is hunting for a new victim named Ruby.
She explains to him that Vivian is possessing her and feeding her dreams.
He asks on Vivian’s purpose for kidnapping children, and she assumes that Vivian is lonely.
Later that night, Claire sleeps deliberately to let Vivian possess her dreams.
While in a dream, Vivian broke free from the bed and swam to the surface, Doctors brought
Vivian to the same psychiatric institution where Claire is staying.
He screams nonstop while they test on him.
As for Dr. Silverman, he browses Vivian’s profile in hospital’s archives, and finally
he believes that all her dreams are true, she jolts from sleep and successfully connects
with Vivian, as a result, she now knows how Vivian escaped the institution, he killed
a nurse, and he dressed up as a nurse to blend in with the crowd, then he went outside, and
an officer offered him a ride.
The officer kissed Vivian, and he surprised the officer with a gun, He then instructed
the officer to go to the reservoir, and when they arrived, he shot him in the head.
Coincidentally, Vivian’s escape plan parallels with Claire’s escape, where she successfully
flees the institution.
While she’s on the road with an officer, she threatens him to contact other officers
to go to the location of Paul’s corpse at the abandoned hotel, she drives to the cliff
near the reservoir.
The morning dawns, and Claire finally meets Tony Stark, I mean Vivian.
He enters the car and directs her to his house, which is an old fruit factory.
However, before Vivian lets Claire get out of the car, he knows she’s hiding a gun,
with no choice she surrenders the gun to him.
She then walks out, and Vivian hugs him, He confesses his crimes and apologizes for killing
Paul.
She cries while listening to his fantasy about making a perfect family with Claire.
Inside the factory, Claire meets Ruby, who's been brainwashed by Vivian’s flowery words,
while Vivian prepares their food, she accompanies Ruby upstairs, she tries to convince Ruby
in escaping the place, but instead, Ruby screams alarming Vivian downstairs.
He climbs upstairs and hits her head, making her unconscious.
She wakes up and finds her hands tied.
Later that night, Detective Jack and Dr. Silverman arrive at the abandoned hotel, they get to
room 401, and they find Paul’s body mauled by Dobie.
As for Claire, she endures a night with Vivian, but he suddenly wakes up, and he cries about
seeing Claire unconscious in the water.
The following day, Ruby frees Claire from the rope so she can escape, but Vivian wakes
up, and he holds Claire’s foot with a gun pointing at her.
Fortunately, his gun is unloaded, so she kicks him on the head, and she runs with Ruby.
She sees an opening window and hoists Ruby up.
Ruby runs across the field; she comes across the SWAT team and cops who are searching for
Claire and Ruby.
As for Claire, she plays hide and seek with Vivian, but she is cornered upstairs.
With no choice left, Claire jumps down, and rotten apples soften her landing.
She then runs outside the orchard and goes to the bridge.
Helicopters surround the fruit factory, and some follow Claire and some follow Vivian.
On the bridge, he catches her, and he holds her at a gunpoint.
She then shouts at the SWAT team on the helicopters that the gun is empty, she then elbows Vivian,
she bolts away, but Vivian rushes towards her.
The sniper finally shoots Vivian, but unfortunately, he stumbles towards Claire, and both fall
off the bridge.
Later, a SWAT team finds Claire unconscious on the water, but what Claire sees is that
she finally joins her daughter.
The movie ends with Vivian locked in the same psychiatric institute where Claire was.
Vivian attempts to sleep, but Claire’s spirit haunts him.
Sweet dreams, Vivian, bloody words begin to paint on his walls and ceilings.
He crawls to the door and screams for help.
The horror he brought upon Claire is
happening to him now.
And the movie ends, please like & subscribe, it really helps the channel grow.