Dream Trap (1990) User Reviews

Teensploitation at its cheesiest, this one is BAD

[Dreaming-2 · 4/10 · 13 March 1999]

Now, I love a cheesy teen movie as well as anyone else (well, actually a lot more) but this film was just ridiculous. : Kristy Swanson shows a little potential, but the wistful sighs of a high school geek just doesn't suit Sasha Jenson, who is excellent as Don Dawson in dazed and confused. The high pitched voice and bunny character was ridiculous.

The plot is unbearably slow ... half the movie seems devoted to dressing up the two attractive stars in various weird costumes as they play out their "fantasies" , which are lame and definitely bear no resemblence to real adolescent fantasies.

The subplot is even more tedius ....a headmaster who spies on the sorority house and steals panties, two little boys who spend the whole movie spying on de-topping co-eds. Ugh.

Don't bother unless you're a die hard teensploitation fan!

Tedious and troubling

[Groverdox · 3/10 · 18 May 2016]

"Dream Trap" is an almost unwatchably boring movie. I say "almost" because I did manage to keep an eye on it while I did whatever else. It's one joke, admittedly a fairly original one, stretched past breaking point in maybe the first few minutes, and then repeated, painstakingly, all the way to the full extent of feature film length.

The main character, a dorkus malorkus, day dreams constantly of a perfect dream woman, and then one day he meets her, or someone who looks exactly like her. He attempts to engage her in conversation but his day dreams keep encroaching and leading to embarrassing situations.

Not only are the comedic possibilities of this idea exhausted after a few minutes, the idea stops being suitable material for comedy when you watch someone battling with their invasive fantasies, scene after scene. Then it becomes a study of mental illness.

There's some, very scant, nudity, of the typical walk-on variety done by models who were probably paid fifty bucks for a few hours work. There's no eroticism, no comedy, and even less reason for anyone to watch this justifiably forgotten movie.

This film is fantastic

[TheMan76 · 10/10 · 5 April 1999]

Dream Trap is a film for those who enjoy a little fantasy with a little bit of that late 1980's College Frat silliness. Kristy Swanson is great in this film and many will fall in love with her innocence and beauty. Sasha Jenson plays his role terrifically as the nerd that has fantasies about a character and actually meets the identical looking twin to his dream in real life. I wish Kristy Swanson had shown more skin in the film however she has a terrific body and a great personality.