https://fictionmachine.com/2021/03/14/review-come-true-2020/ Deconstructing the machinery of cinema. Wed, 05 Jan 2022 06:25:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ https://fictionmachine.com/2021/03/14/review-come-true-2020/comment-page-1/#comment-15044 Wed, 05 Jan 2022 06:25:43 +0000 http://fictionmachine.com/?p=9193#comment-15044 […] gem. It went direct to online rental in Australia, and deserved much better. In my review, I wrote: ‘I find dreams to be one of the most difficult things for cinema to adapt. They have been […]

]]> https://fictionmachine.com/2021/03/14/review-come-true-2020/comment-page-1/#comment-14678 Fri, 26 Nov 2021 06:20:08 +0000 http://fictionmachine.com/?p=9193#comment-14678 […] It packs one of the most divisive endings for a science fiction film, but Anthony Scott Burns’ deeply unsettling and weird thriller Come True is a remarkable piece of work. A troubled young woman (Julia Sarah Stone) signs up for a sleep study as a means to make ends meet, only to find her sleep plagued with nightmarish black figures living on the edges of her dreams. This steps very much into the whole ‘experiment goes wrong’ style of science fiction feature, but what it lacks in terms of Altered States or The Fly body horror, it more than makes up for in bleak nightmare imagery and an increasingly paranoid narrative. (review) […]

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