This "Dream Lover" (not to be confused with the 90's James Spader/Madchen Amick film of the same title) is a stinker. It was the kind of lazily written film in which they depict how crazy the psycho-killer guy is by showing him lifting weights, cos, you know, the scriptwriter saw "Taxi Driver". It did the same thing for Kristy McNichol's career that "Fresh Horses" did for that of Molly Ringwald.