Dr. Berrisford

'''""It's a futile, empty gesture.""

- - Dr. Berrisford while Alex ignores tries to save Cynthia from him. '''

Dr. Berris is a brilliant psychiatrist but with a dangerous agenda, and was the new and ultimate main antagonist of Bad Dreams.

He was portrayed by Harris Yulan who played the skeptical judge in Ghostbusters II.

Scheme
After Cynthia awoken her 15-year-old coma, the first person she saw was Dr. Berrisford, a doctor who runs a clinic she's in. To Cynthia, he wanted to help her adjust to her new life in the 1980s, yet unknown to Cynthia and everyone, Berrisford wanted to test his secret theory on suicidal tendencies, starting with Cynthia.

The girl with a spiritual nature among the mental patients named Gilda was the only one before Berrisford's apprentice Dr. Alex Karmen, figured out it was Dr. Berrisford under the persona of the dead cult leader Harris who been killing the patients. She died saving Cynthia from Berrisford after she told that Gilda is not for this world but Cynthia is and can be.

In the end, after killing Cynthia's fellow patients, Berrisford fool the detective and Alex that he going to shoot himself with a handgun before tried killing them both point blank. But Cynthia after realizing it was Berrisford and not Harris, stopped him and pushed him off the rooftop and he died landing on the roof of a car.

Original/alternate ending
In the deleted scene that was the movie's original ending, after Alex saved Cynthia from commiting suicide, Berrisford while smiling at them, strangely jumped from the rooftop and killed himself, landed on a car.