Beyond Dream’s Door

In 1988, Ben Dobbs, a college student, begins experiencing increasingly surreal nightmares featuring a red balloon, a hook-handed janitor, a non-existent younger brother named Ricky, a sensuous woman, and a monstrous red demon-werewolf. The intensity of these visions unsettles him and pushes him to seek answers. These dreams set the stage for a phenomenon that blurs the line between sleep and reality.

He hands a leaflet describing his dream to Professor Noxx and asks him to read it. Noxx's assistant, Julie Oxel, runs a dream research session and administers a sleeping pill while recording Ben's dreams. This marks the start of a controlled experiment into his nightmares.

That night, Noxx calls Ben to discuss the dreams, hinting at a past case from 20 years earlier involving D.F. White. Ben and Noxx go to the college library to investigate, where he sees a ghostly vision of White who warns that the thing will take those he helps and hide them within dreams. Moments later, Ben witnesses Noxx being brutally murdered by the monster and escapes.

The next day, Ben returns to the library and finds the pages detailing White's case have vanished as though they never existed. He then meets Eric Baxter, Noxx's other assistant, who guides him to the recurring dream location with large concrete trapdoors. Eric identifies this as an old unused room in the college and speculates the monster may originate beneath the trapdoors.

That evening, Eric receives a call from Julie noting that Noxx's phone is disconnected and his name has been erased from the college register. Meanwhile, Ben learns that Noxx's entire house has mysteriously disappeared.

That night, Eric and Julie review a tampered recording of Ben's dream. Eric studies animal-like teeth found in the trapdoor room, and while reading a transcript, both share a vision of Julie in danger. They rush to Julie's house, only to discover she has been decapitated.

Ben cannot return home and takes shelter with Eric. They find Ben's leaflet shredded and the strange teeth missing, signaling that the monster is erasing evidence as it closes in on them. Ben concludes the creature will target him and Eric next.

Having recovered one missing page about White's case, Ben devises a plan to lure the monster back beneath the trapdoors and banish it from reality. He believes baiting the creature with the page can force it back into the pit.

That night, Ben and Eric break into the college and set up a crane mechanism to hold the trapdoors open, intending to lure the monster into the pit. During the preparation, Eric is killed by the monster.

In a final bid to banish the creature, Ben uses the page to bait it into the pit beneath the trapdoors and releases the mechanism, slamming the doors shut. Ben's fate is left unknown.