IFC Midnight Releases Official Trailer For "Come True"

 Source: IFC Films Press Release 

IFC Midnight/Come True 

IFC Midnight has released the trailer for the sci-fi film, Come True.

Come True is the sophomore feature by Canadian writer, director, cinematographer, and composer, Anthony Scott Burns. The film stars Julia Sarah Stone (ALLURE, EVERY THING WILL BE FINE, AMC’s The Killing). 

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.

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"

Come True was part of the Official Selection of Nightstream 2020 and Fantasia International Film Festival 2020. 

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. 

Below is the trailer: