Twixt (2011)

Twixt (2011 [theaters] 2013 [DVD]) is the latest film made by legendary director Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather, Apocalypse Now). It was panned by most critics but is a good concept and does some things well even if it isn't that great as a whole. It's a horror movie narrated by Tom Waits featuring Val Kilmer as a washed up horror writer having long in depth philosophical discussions with Edgar Allan Poe in dream sequences all taking place within a Twin Peaks-like small town, to boot. Need I say more? The actual plot involves possible vampires/witchcraft and for sure serial killing/mass murder and ghosts. The movie even though very low budget and sometimes seeming amateurish with the cinematography retains a well polished dreamlike-ness to it which is appropriate because the majority of plot development takes place in dreams. The movie has a bunch of story elements that never get fully explained though, so they either just don't make sense and you have to accept them, or, for some of them they could have just cut that detail completely. But even though those flaws exist it still kind of works because most of the movie takes place in dream sequences, and how many of you fully understand and can make total sense of your dreams? I know I rarely can. The film makes up for whatever story flaws it may have with an interesting enough concept, some surprisingly hilarious scenes, an interesting cast, and some good acting (though there is some bad acting too). I give the film an A for effort and a 3.5/5 (P.S. the film also stars Elle Fanning and Bruce Dern). Below is the trailer, followed by the funniest scene from the movie IMO (val kilmer gets drunk while trying to write his next book after his publisher tells him "I don't want any of that 'fog on the lake' crap!"):