Trailer Debut for COME TRUE, Sci-Fi Sleep Paralysis Nightmare – March 12th

IFC MIDNIGHT 

Presents…

What if all of your dreams could come true….especially the darkest ones?

WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY ANTHONY SCOTT BURNS

STARRING JULIA SARAH STONE

SOUNDTRACK BY ELECTRIC YOUTH and PILOTPRIEST 

Watch the trailer for #ComeTrue, in theaters and on demand March 12th

*FANTASIA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2020 – OFFICIAL SELECTION*

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 “Exhilarating. A sublime journey as fresh in its execution as it is in its narrative.”

– Rob Hunter, Film School Rejects

 “Radical. COME TRUE wants to be the kind of sci-fi movie that warrants multiple viewings. It deserves them.”

– Nick Allen, RogerEbert.com

“A neon-soaked cinematic nightmare…a beautiful yet truly frightening examination of the power of dreams that features some of the most evocative dreamscape imagery this writer has witnessed since The Cell…”

– Heather Wixson, Daily Dead

Julia Sarah Stone as ‘Sarah’ in Anthony Scott Burns’ COME TRUE. Courtesy of IFC Midnight. An IFC Midnight Release.

High school student Sarah (Stone) is at her lowest point yet when she runs away from home and finds herself with no one to rely on and struggling with recurring nightmares. She chances upon a university sleep study that offers the promise of safety and money and brings her an unexpected friend and confidant in the overseeing scientist Jeremy (Liboiron). But there’s something curious about proceedings and being under observation seems to make Sarah’s disturbing dreams even worse. As the darkness begins to close in, it’s soon clear that Sarah has unknowingly become the conduit to a horrifying, new discovery…

Landon Liboiron as ‘Jeremy’ in Anthony Scott Burns’ COME TRUE. Courtesy of IFC Midnight. An IFC Midnight Release.

A distinctive and compelling work of science fiction that haunts the space between wakefulness and sleep, COME TRUE is the sophomore feature by Canadian writer, director, cinematographer, and composer Anthony Scott Burns. Featuring an unforgettable electronic score by Electric Youth and Pilotpriest (the filmmaker’s composing moniker) and a striking performance from breakthrough actress Julia Sarah Stone (ALLURE, EVERY THING WILL BE FINE, AMC’s The Killing), COME TRUE is a cinematic dream well worth the submersion.

Julia Sarah Stone as ‘Sarah’ in Anthony Scott Burns’ COME TRUE. Courtesy of IFC Midnight. An IFC Midnight Release.

DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT

“I’d been fascinated with this concept of sleep paralysis since I first experienced it in my youth,” said writer/director Anthony Scott Burns. “When people are in this state, they often seem to see the exact same thing: dark shadows with eyes watching over them. Science obviously declares this a mass hallucination, but you have to wonder… Why do people see the same thing?” Inspired by the work of Nicolas Roeg, William Friedkin, Stanley Kubrick, and David Cronenberg, as well as sleep studies conducted by Berkeley University, COME TRUE seeks to ask what would happen if we could see other people’s dreams? What would we see? What would we discover about ourselves? What if these shadows from our collective dreams saw us looking back at them? “Artistically, the goal of the film was to create a classic genre narrative that could slowly hypnotize” adds Burns, “that would clearly deliver a building ‘feeling’, and finish with a moment for the audience that leaves them disoriented, lost, questioning where the line between the film and their own life ends. A dream come true”

Julia Sarah Stone as ‘Sarah’ in Anthony Scott Burns’ COME TRUE. Courtesy of IFC Midnight. An IFC Midnight Release.

COME TRUE will open in select U.S. theaters, digital platforms, and cable VOD on Friday, March 12, 2021 courtesy of IFC Midnight, and available in Canada on the same date courtesy of Raven Banner.

120 MIN / 2021 / ENGLISH / COLOR

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