i saw this movie and a i think most people have these day and on the out of print academy home entertainment videotape under the title slash dream . i doubt that be the original title and a it appear on the screen via a bad video effect and and appear to be block out the original title by be place on a large green rectangle ( probably sunburst ) . the videotape date from 1986 and and since robert englund ( who later play freddy kreuger ) appear in it ( albeit briefly and towards the end ) and the title be probably meant to suggest a nightmare on elm street ( 1984 ) . none of the actor name be mention on the box and although my box be cut and so maybe the name just get cut off . slashed dream be probably also mean to suggest slasher film and but this be at most a proto slasher while nobody get kill and and the only slashing be of one bad guy by another . the video box suggest that the movie start with a skinny dipping scene and with the character watch by someone with a knife and and then flash back to how they get there . in fact and it entirely present in chronological order and start with a bunch of young people in college . in a class and they talk about the meaning of life and and where people have their root while in the earth and one suggests and in heaven and suggest another . one of the student and jenny and bring up her friend michael and who would drop out of college and move into the mountain . her boyfriend doesn not think much of a dropout and and he doesn not like jenny lifelong brainy friend either . at a frat party and her boyfriend get really belligerent and and jenny and her old friend drive off to find michael . on the way and they get direction at a country store . the proprietor be find in a back room and rehearse his night club act ( he say ) and talk and sing on a microphone . he a former radio star who be forget ( play by the crooner rudy vallee ) . he about the most chipper old man to ever warn a couple of young people not to go in the wood . he press some licorice nip on them and and try to impress on them the need for a knife . they pass on the knife and and make their way into the wood and where they encounter a bear and and find a cabin they think might be michael . it make out of rather thin branch and so that it be possible to see right through the wall . there be also window and and at least two large hole in the roof and so that when they say they wish they could lock the door and it sound rather funny . there an odd sort of rape scene and in which one of the assailant seem to be at most dry hump a sleeping bag ( and he couldn not get it up either and we learn ) and and the other also seem to be do some dry humping and but also do some bruise face slapping . later and some strange advice be give to the victim and to push the demon out and to find some truth in what happen . the movie end with one of the character take a slim illustrate hardcover book down from a shelf in michael cabin and and read represent your pain be the breaking of the shell that enclose your understanding . even a the stone of the fruit must break and that it heart may stand in the sun and so must you know pain . and in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and and sharing of pleasure . for in the dew of little thing the heart find it morning and be refresh . these be two different passage ( on pain and and on friendship ) from kahlil gibran popular ( more then than now and i think ) book the prophet . not much of a horror movie and and may not have be intend to be one . between the opening scene in the college classroom and and the reading from the prophet and and some of the dialogue in between and it seem the filmmaker may have be try to reach for something meaningful and but .