No photo
Anthony Scott Burns
18 connections found
Filmography
View:
Connections, in both directions
There’s a Prince of Darkness (1987) vibe to some of it, so it’s safe to say I land squarely with the delighted.
Like the rest of Come True , it’s an homage to Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness , specifically the dream sequence where a voice intones, “This is not a dream, not a dream.”
Although Burns references George A. Romero and The Shining — and his score echoes John Carpenter’s icy synthesisers — his film is more intimate and emotional than those horror touchstones, and so the whys of the plot ultimately aren’t so important.
“Come True” wears its many influences on its sleeve, notably the work of David Cronenberg and Philip K. Dick, “A Nightmare on Elm Street” and “Donnie Darko,” with nods to “The Shining,” “Night of the Living Dead” and “The Terminator” thrown in for good measure.
Come True also exploits the patchy, out-of-focus “reception” these scientists receive while monitoring Sarah’s dreams, conjuring hazy glimpses of apparitions in a way that reminded me of Hideo Nakata’s Ringu and its unsettling vision of vengeful ghosts in the machine.
The popularity of Stranger Things – and, less memorably, J.J. Abrams’s time-capsule Super 8 – recontextualized ’80s horror and sci-fi touchstones as cradles to rob and veins to tap.
The film’s It Follows vibes are cool and moody, but a film should be just more than a calling card concept.
It could have taken a page from the book of It Follows and kept all of the technology vague but by going this way, it felt inconsistent, though it does explain it away and allow for suspension of disbelieve in favour of style.
There, she dons an all-white padded outfit and skull cap that resemble something out of “Videodrome” or “eXistenZ” (or Brandon Cronenberg’s recent “Possessor”), and is hooked up to machines via tangles of serpentine cables.
Come True’s vapid center is completely undone by a last-minute plot twist pulled right out of Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Real.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Directed by Michel Gondry
influenced Come True (2020)
Visuals
The visuals bring to mind the wall of television screens watching characters fall asleep in Shock Treatment and the invasive dream examinations in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind .
“Come True” wears its many influences on its sleeve, notably the work of David Cronenberg and Philip K. Dick, “A Nightmare on Elm Street” and “Donnie Darko,” with nods to “The Shining,” “Night of the Living Dead” and “The Terminator” thrown in for good measure.
“Come True” wears its many influences on its sleeve, notably the work of David Cronenberg and Philip K. Dick, “A Nightmare on Elm Street” and “Donnie Darko,” with nods to “The Shining,” “Night of the Living Dead” and “The Terminator” thrown in for good measure.
Unlike the evasiveness of the consistency of the whole sum of V/H/S (2012-14), Southbound (2015), Holidays (2016) and XX (2017), Wild Tales (2014) and now The Ballad of Buster Scruggs have mastered that which seemingly eludes so many filmmakers.
The latest is Holidays , an anthology featuring segments from the directors of Dracula Untold , Tusk , Dark Skies , The Pact , and other recent horror movies of varying critical reception.
Gary Shore's (2014's "Dracula Untold") "St.
The St. Patrick’s Day one comes from Gary Shore, the director behind Dracula Untold.
Today, A24’s influence through films like The Witch and Hereditary (among others) have inspired a brand of filmmaking defined by existential, often unexplained narratives.
Soon, she meets another member of the sleep study team, a researcher named Jeremy, quirkily played by Landon Liboiron ( Hemlock Grove ), who goes by the nickname Riff, which is short for Riff Raff from The Rocky Horror Picture Show .
Come True is possibly the most original film I’ve seen about dreams this side of Christopher Nolan’s labyrinthine Inception .
Once the nightmares have been unleashed toward the beginning of the third act, there is a sense that Burns is attempting a Mulholland Drive-style inversion of reality.
Burns – who wrote/produced/edited – creates an intriguing world from scratch like a cross between “A Scanner Darkly'' and “A Nightmare on Elm Street.”
In her mind, Sarah’s alternate reality is a blend of Silent Hill imagery in surreal 3D spaces that’s all about lingering inexplicableness.