True Fiction-- My take on the movie with spoilers!

PLOT SUMMARY: A woman gets the chance of a lifetime to work with her idol, a famous writer. But when she reaches his house, she finds that not all wishes should come true. 

As a writer, what I wouldn’t give to work with my favourite author. It would be a once in a lifetime opportunity to learn everything I can from the master of horror because at some point I do feel like I could use a bit of guidance.

But if the question arises of how desperate I am to work with the author, if I’m ready to accept all of their eccentricities, and willing to participate in their experiments...

Maybe I may just let go of this opportunity. Especially after watching True Fiction.

TRUE FICTION Movie Plot 

The movie begins with Avery being interviewed by an unimpressed woman and an eager man.

Avery pretty much tells them she is ready to do anything just to work with Caleb Conrad, a renowned author who needs help with his new book.

The interviewers don’t seem too enthused to hire her and Avery is dead sure she hasn’t landed the job, particularly when she notices them both outside at the parking lot, arguing.

The next day, as she is working at the library, she receives a call that she has been hired.

Ecstatic, Avery packs her bag and allows herself to be driven to a remote cabin by a driver who barely speaks. She also willingly gives up her cellphone.

Avery dresses up to meet Conrad and when he doesn’t show up, she plays a record and dances around the house. That’s completely normal to do in a stranger’s house. In this case, it is her boss.

Caleb soon shows up and Avery is flustered. She agrees to be subjected to his experiments so he can understand the fear and draw inspiration from it for his next book.

Avery is made to wear sensory-deprivation suits, look at inkblots, watch patchy videos, one of which has a night video of her sleeping.

Avery later checks her bedroom but doesn’t find a camera. She keeps seeing things, hearing voices, and when she tries to run out the door, finds it locked.

Caleb calmly explains to her that it is in her job description to stay put in the house. She yells about a woman’s voice and he agrees to take her to the blue locked door that she was told to avoid.

The door opens to reveal a staircase that leads to a basement where a woman is chained. She has cuts and blood all over her but Caleb cannot see her.

Just for a minute, Avery believes she is losing her mind as she keeps pointing in the corner and Caleb keeps denying her existence.

Then when he finally holds the captive woman’s arm up, Avery freaks out and rushes up to the front door, locking the blue door behind her.

Upstairs she can’t find the key and also finds that the windows cannot be shattered.

She goes downstairs to confront Caleb of his intentions but he continues to pretend he is innocent. Then the woman screams and Avery imagines she is killed.

Then there’s a masked man who chases her and who Avery eventually kills. With blood all over her face she meets with Caleb, certain that her idol wouldn’t resort to such treachery and that the man before her isn’t who he says he is.

Caleb reveals he is the author and that all the others were actors. The masked man was his brother. He is devastated to learn that Avery has killed him.

Avery still can’t believe he’s the real Caleb and puts him on the lie-detector machine. That too proves he is the real Caleb.

Avery refuses to believe Caleb would try to have her killed. She reviews the tapes and sees that Caleb did make two of them and one of them did have someone in night vision goggles touching her.

She slices off his fingers in order for him to admit the truth. When he tells her he is an actor, Avery calls the agent and has him tell her who is playing Caleb.

TRUE FICTION Ending Explained with Spoilers! 

Finally understanding that the man before her is Caleb Conrad and that he is a sick person who derives pleasure from harassing women, she decides to fight back.

The woman in the basement is revealed to be an actor and Avery concludes she has been played and that Caleb picked her because she was completely alone in the world.

She has him chained up in the basement and when she goes up to check his drawers, finds a draft of his novel in which he was planning to kill her for the story.

Meanwhile, Caleb cuts off his wrist to free himself and reaches upstairs to confront her.

In the ensuing fight, Avery gets the front door keys and escapes.

Later, she is being interviewed after writing a book on her experiences. She gets sympathy from the audience and even makes a joke about rewrites being worse than what she experienced, showing that Avery is no longer the timid girl she used to be.

True Fiction has some interesting scenes and definitely and fear-inducing premise. Watching a woman’s dream come crashing down will draw sympathy. They do after all say you should never meet your idol.

There are flaws, however. The story gets a little muddled in the middle and in the climax, where it gets a little hard to follow what is going on.

Apart from that, it’s an enjoyable movie if you don’t mind a bit of gore.

Scare scale: 2.5/5