Twixt

2011

Action / Comedy / Fantasy / Horror / Mystery / Thriller

14
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 19% · 23 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 19% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 4.8/10 10 13324 13.3K

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Plot summary

A washed-up horror novelist arrives in a sleepy town on a book tour, only to stumble into a string of eerie murders. Haunted by dreams of a ghostly girl named V and guided by the spirit of Edgar Allan Poe, he’s drawn into a nightmarish world where fiction and reality blur—and the story he’s chasing leads back to his own buried guilt.

Director

Francis Ford Coppola Photo
Francis Ford Coppola

Top cast

Elle Fanning Photo
Elle Fanning as V.
Don Novello Photo
Don Novello as Melvin
Bruce Dern Photo
Bruce Dern as Sheriff Bobby LaGrange
Ryan Simpkins Photo
Ryan Simpkins as Caroline
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
649.69 MB
1280*640
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 20 min
Seeds 14
1.34 GB
1920*960
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 20 min
Seeds 30

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by michaelRokeefe 6 / 10

You can't change time; but be ready for time changing you

Reviewed by nmn34 5 / 10

A Mixed Bag of Pills

The plot is a complete mess, I'll just get that out there immediately. At times its slow, other times silly, but it is always incoherent. Characters talk in metaphors without the audience being privy to them until ten minutes later or about technical subjects that seem irrelevant to the central plot. I still don't quite know what set up the clock tower scene myself. But I still can't bring myself to hate this movie.The reason being that so much care went into every other aspect. The art direction is first class, the ghostly dream world with its bluish gray with sharp red and yellow accents is down right beautiful. The setting is great, each location is recognizable and interesting from the vampire camp ground to the sheriff's bird house cluttered home. And in spite of having nowhere to go, so much care was put into the characters. The ghostly pallor of the dead girl drives home what she is long before the writing with just enough color to give her a somber beauty. And while the plot leaves much to be desired, the writing is excellent. The characters were written with such life in their dialogue and the narration perfectly balances being informative and entertaining. Character tropes like the drunk writer and the lazy deputy are used well, the drunken writer and the lazy deputy feel fresh where a lesser writer would make them cliché and tired.The flaw of the film was the way it handled the theme. Coppola got so caught up in his theme that the story comes off as an afterthought. As result, it takes great leaps in the hopes that you share his mindset when he is writing it. The mind set of a writer which is not a particularly common thought process. There is so much good I can't help but like the movie on some level, it just feels like that good doesn't go anywhere.And I would read the hell out of The Vampire Executioner.
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