Very best movie i ever watch

Powerful

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

In Twixt, a "bargain-basement Stephen King" writer (Val Kilmer) visits a small town on a going-nowhere book tour only to find himself very much a part of a real mystery containing a haunted belfry, ghosts of dead children, and a corpse with a stake through its heart. It's a movie chock full of atmosphere and unease, and it's really well done. Good movie for this time of year.Kilmer plays Hall Baltimore. He drinks a lot. I mean a lot. At a quiet book signing, the local sheriff Bobby Lagrange (played with absolute zeal by Bruce Dern) slyly mentions that he himself is a bit of a writer and would Mr. Baltimore care to collaborate? Why, Sheriff Bobby even has a story all ready to go. Has to do with missing and/or murdered kids, or maybe the aforementioned belfry (it's haunted!) and probably everything to do with those kids who live across the lake, the ones who look like they practice Satanism or some such.Meanwhile, Baltimore has money woes. His wife (played by Kilmer's real-life ex, Joanne Whalley) pressures him to get another advance from his publisher (David Paymer) so that she can pay off their mounting debt, even threatening to sell his priceless copy of Whitman's Leaves of Grass. This is kind of what gets Baltimore to agree to a sort of collaboration with the sheriff.One night, Baltimore has one heck of a dream. He wanders through a forest, where he is joined by an ethereal girl in braces (Elle Fanning). They converse, and their path leads them to an old hotel - one that's not open when Baltimore is awake. The girl refuses to go in; Baltimore does, and he learns some things about missing children and the secrets of the town. He wakes up. But was it a dream? Coppola strikes just the right tone with this movie, and the casting is superlative. Kilmer is fine - perhaps even better than usual - and Dern is terrific. Love that guy. Alden Ehrenreich (the new Han Solo, plus the guy from Beautiful Creatures) and Don Novello (yes, Father Guido Sarducci from SNL) are both a real treat. The ending both comes out of nowhere and makes all the sense in the world, just the kind of ending you want in a horror thriller.

Anyone who is confused about what this film is about is an idiot. I said it. You heard me. It's pasted all over the dang film, no matter how many dutch angles Coppola wants to throw in to try and upset easily frightened people.It's revealed in a very early line from Val "Unfortunately Fat in His Later Years" Kilmer's character Baltimore. He's talking to his wife through Skype. Because apparently he can afford a Macbook but not a cellphone. And he says he wants to write a book for himself. Not the crap witch bidness he's been pretending to know about for the last ten (?) years. Dear old Frankie wanted to make a movie for himself and it's going to be weird as heck and Eff yoo, A-hole.This movie is about an author who wants to separate himself from the "Death of the Author" idea but still make a paycheck. Heckadawsh, Val even has Sheriff "I don't need the paycheck but I love it" Berns call him out as a "Third tier Steven King". He knows he is and he don't give a flying dookie at least not yet.This movie is entirely about the creative process. How an author creates a story largely independent of a profit-driven business. For whatever weird reason, it also has some beautiful cinematography. The pale shots of Virginia in her taffeta, the stark reds of the carpets in the hotel, the weird changing of colors for the whiskey, the odd illumination affects in anything that was a light source...beautiful....but also left me thinking Kyle MacLachlan was about to saunter out and ask about the coffee.Sometimes they tie his arms back, I hear. But the coffee is damn good. And hot!!

Very strange the reviews I am reading about this film, and the harsh criticism towards the director Francis Ford Coppola. I believe they are not happy with his change of genre, it was a very unlike Francis Ford Coppola type film but also a brilliant debut in the Horror/Thriller category for him.The acting was brilliant, a return to form for Val Kilmer, a typical reliable performance from Bruce Dern as the small town Sheriff and a good performance by Ben Chaplin as Edgar Allen Poe. Also narrated by Tom Waites.The music was haunting and the dream sequences were very well done.One I would deffinatley watch again.

An author (Val Kilmer) known for his stories about witches, visits a creepy little town and is inspired by a quirky local sheriff (Bruce Dern) to embark on writing a tale about vampires.As far as genre and publicity goes, this movie is a misfire. It's not a horror. I'm not sure where the R-rating came from, other than a dark theme, some suggestive shots and some blood. It's not really a thriller, either. It toys with being a murder mystery, but doesn't hold up. As is often the case, the first half was fairly strong, demonstrating some great cinematography, and building some mystery, suspense, and humour, but it rapidly lost momentum. Weaving plot threads from present day, the 1950's, and the life of Poe, it fails to deliver anything really solid in any of them. It's a pastiche of Gothic horror cliché. But I hope that was the point, and I'll give it the benefit of the doubt.I interpreted the film as being an insight into the creative process of the writer rather than being confined to the expected structure of a horror/ thriller. The title suggests an in-between place that the protagonist inhabits, betwixt the inspiring images of his dream-world and the generic, lacklustre result of his attempts to bring it to life on the page. But that could be a tough sell to anyone not already familiar with that struggle.