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First trailer for Fantasia premiere “COME TRUE” will haunt your sleep

Monday, August 10, 2020 | News

By MICHAEL GINGOLD

Take a trip to the scary side of slumber with the new chiller from OUR HOUSE and HOLIDAYS writer/director Anthony Scott Burns.

COME TRUE will have its world premiere August 30 as part of this year’s Fantasia International Film Festival, running digitally August 20-September 2. The producers include Steven Hoban (GINGER SNAPS, SPLICE), Mark Smith and Brent Kawchuck (IN THE TALL GRASS), and among the executive producers is IN THE TALL GRASS, SPLICE and CUBE director Vincenzo Natali. Julia Sarah Stone, Landon Liboiron (HAPPY DEATH DAY) and Carlee Ryski star; the synopsis: “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 the 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…”

Tickets for the screening can be purchased at the Fantasia website.

 

Michael Gingold
Michael Gingold (RUE MORGUE's Head Writer) has been covering the world of horror cinema for over three decades, and in addition to his work for RUE MORGUE, he has been a longtime writer and editor for FANGORIA magazine and its website. He has also written for BIRTH.MOVIES.DEATH, SCREAM, IndieWire.com, TIME OUT, DELIRIUM, MOVIEMAKER and others. He is the author of the AD NAUSEAM books (1984 Publishing) and THE FRIGHTFEST GUIDE TO MONSTER MOVIES (FAB Press), and he has contributed documentaries, featurettes and liner notes to numerous Blu-rays, including the award-winning feature-length doc TWISTED TALE: THE UNMAKING OF "SPOOKIES" (Vinegar Syndrome).