Twixt (2022)

Perfectly adorable

The film was still a fun one that will make you laugh and have you leaving the theater feeling like you just stole something valuable and got away with it.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Coppola's exploration of the writer's process set against a vampire murder mystery evokes 1408, Twin Peaks, and of course the works of Edger Allen Poe. It is Poe's ghost that leads Val Kilmer on his dream world explorations of the underbelly of a small town "where people go to be left alone". In this blue-lit version of the town Kilmer meets Virginia, a porcelain Elle Fanning who may, or may not be the sole survivor of the town's serial killer. Eerie, pulpy and just a little great, Twixt is a modern AIP second feature. Another film demonstrating that film obsession can live through VOD.Also interesting is that the film was made almost entirely on Coppola's own property in the North bay.

Francis Ford Copppla writes and directs sometimes without thinking about his audience or following. Some projects seeming more than likely for his own admiration. TWIXT is more than just weird and hard to grasp. A bit boring and no doubt about it...a mess. Val Kilmer plays Hall Baltimore a has-been writer that stops in a small town, where strange visions and nightmares change the direction of the murder mystery he is writing. In his nightmares he frequently encounters a young girl...a dead girl...named V(Elle Fanning). The girl reveals some disturbing and dark secrets about a mysterious murder the town is trying to cover up. What connection does V have with this misdeed? And why does Baltimore want to place vampires in the mystery he is writing? Will this be his comeback novel or just another bargain basement book? Kilmer does nothing redeeming. Fanning may as well be the star. Others in the cast: Joanne Whalley, David Paymer, Don Novello, Ryan Simpkins, Anthony Fusco and Ben Chaplin plays Poe.

The preview looked interesting and seeing Coppolas name behind it seemed to suggest it would be good, but unfortunately it is not the case.By the end of the film I wondered if Coppola wanted to deliberately make a bad movie - there are dream sequences which go on for so long and seem to be where really anything happens. the things occurring when Baltimore is awake seem to often just have no reason to have even been shown - such as when he calls the police station and there is a cut-screen showing the call operator responding to his call and connecting him to the police station - i don't understand why this was even needed to be shown - that and the interactions between hall and his wife. too much just seemed unnecessary or made no sense to the plot at all, and the confusing nature of it all didn't work to raise any questions about possibilities as there was nothing firm to go on in the first placeas mentioned in the review title, i did like the Edgar Allan Poe figure and the visuals of Poe leading Baltimore with his lantern over dangerous ground was interesting - Poe had some interesting things to say. lastly reading in another review that Coppola released this as a 3d film makes me lean more toward thinking he really was deliberately trying to make a confusing, even irritating film

The decadent writer of witch tales Hall Baltimore (Val Kilmer) travels to Swann Valley, a small town where people go to be forgotten, as part of his tour to promote his recent novel. The town does not have a book store, and Hall stays in a hardware store waiting for his nonexistent fans. Later Sheriff Bobby LaGrange (Bruce Dern), who is an aspirant writer, arrives and tells that he is his fan and asks for an autograph in his book. Then he asks if Hall could read his recent work and invites him to go to the morgue to see the body of a victim of a serial-killer that was murdered with a stake through her heart. Then Hall goes to a coffee shop and discovers that Edgar Allan Poe has once come to a hotel in the town where twelve children have been murdered. He goes to his room and tells his wife through Skype that he is going to write a novel based on the weird events at Swann Valley. Hall falls sleep and in his dream, he walks along a park where he meets the twelve year-old Virginia "V" (Elle Fanning) that tells that is her fan, and then with Edgar Allan Poe (Ben Chaplin). On the next morning, Hall decides to team-up with Bobby to write a story based on his idea, but he is blocked and uses pills to sleep and dream. Along the creation process, Hall entwines reality with his dreams."Twixt" is a stylish and Gothic movie by Francis Ford Coppola, with a ghost story about the writing process, magnificent cinematography and atmosphere and great performance of Val Kilmer. Unfortunately, the screenplay is messy and disappoints most of the viewers including me. The potential of the storyline is lost with the poor script. My vote is six.Title (Brazil): "Virginia"Note: On 20 Juky 2016 I saw this film again.