Nightmares are our mind’s own personal horror movies. Abstract or hyperreal, these stories we find ourselves in while we sleep are bone-chilling, haunted, and creep into the subconscious waiting to reveal themselves.
Come True aims to explore the layers of the dreamworld, and the terrifying monsters that lurk in the depths of our minds. Yet the unconscious world writer/director Anthony Scott Burns dissects appears to evade him as well, with layers that lead to empty answers and a leading woman who is paper thin.
Sarah (Stone) is a young woman, fresh out of high school. She crashes at her classmate’s house because her home life is presumably bad, although Burns’ script is not interested in the details of why. Sarah stumbles her way into a college sleep study, and under a bundle of sleek looking wires and bulky sleepsuits, her dreams are recorded in fuzzy monochrome.