True Fiction

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True Fiction

2020

1h 34m

Mystery & Thriller

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Terror strikes when a world-famous horror writer conducts a psychological experiment on his new assistant at a remote cabin.

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Dolores Quintana

Nightmarish Conjurings

TRUE FICTION is sewn together from the pieces of a lot of other horror films and the surgery wasn’t very successful.

Dec 28, 2022

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Bobby LePire

Film Threat

Even if you are sick to death of twists in your horror movies, stick with True Fiction; I guarantee it will surprise you.

Rated: 9/10

Apr 1, 2020

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Chris Knight

National Post

Croft frames the story with slowing creeping camerawork, and Garcia does a great job of gradually going from dumbstruck to vengeful.

Rated: 3/5

Mar 5, 2020

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Sara Clements

Daily Dead

True Fiction is incredibly true to its title, as writer/director Braden Croft blurs the line between what's real and what's not, for both the film's protagonist and the audience, creating an interesting, but an often confusing mind game.

Rated: 3/5

Mar 2, 2020

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Kat Hughes

THN

With echoes of The Shining and Misery, Braden Croft has created an intriguing plot and atmospheric tale that Stephen King himself would be proud of.

Rated: 4/5

Aug 28, 2019

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Anton Bitel

SciFiNow

Pitched somewhere between Peeping Tom (1960) and Misery (1990), True Fiction is a tense and twisty near two-hander that carefully negotiates the convoluted connections between authorship and imposture in any work of make-believe.

Aug 25, 2019

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Megan D

This scenario is intriguing at first and then fails to deliver. The main character chooses to let that man gaslight and traumatize her continuously and stays ? It’s emotionally disturbing and not a good horror film.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

04/25/25

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Daniel F

Is it low budget? Yeah. But that doesn't stop the story from taking off. The acting is pretty good here and there's one scene in particular that had me feeling claustrophobic.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

08/30/24

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Patrick C

Glad I gave this one a chance. I love this sort of story where it's just 2-3 characters stuck in one place. I was very tense throughout the whole movie. Only complaint is the ending was confusing. Still though, the acting was good, the plot was very twisty and turny, really fun idea for a story like Misery in reverse. Also the movie is more violent than you may expect if you're patient. It really takes a wild turn in the second half that you will enjoy if you just let go and strap in.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/16/25

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william d

Delightfully scary and weird, with numerous twists that will keep you guessing to the end.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

this was very good; much better than i was expecting it to be, for sure. there's a couple fun twists at the end which i appreciated.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/20/23

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Audience Member

Well where do I start??...I seen the trailer and thought it looked pretty interesting and I said why not watch it. My husband & I watched thinking it would be cheesy like most horror movies now a days. But guess what there's a freaking development not only in the movie, but with our eyes glued to the screen we were enjoying every minute of this damn movie. You have to watch it to understand the amazement I had to this movie.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/01/23

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Synopsis

Terror strikes when a world-famous horror writer conducts a psychological experiment on his new assistant at a remote cabin.

Director: Braden Croft
Producer: Julian Black Antelope, Braden Croft, Sarah Moore
Screenwriter: Braden Croft
Distributor: Self Distributed
Production Co: 775 Media Corp
Genre: Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 21, 2020, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 21, 2020
Runtime: 1h 34m

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