Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

Cooktopi The acting in this movie is really good.

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

hal-reg If you like your films to come with a plot written out in large crayon letters then this isn't for you. It is twisted and deliberately confusing - though not so much you can't see what is going on if you pay attention. It is more intriguing than creepy, and I thought a good evocation of the atmosphere and experience it was trying to capture (an experience which most films miserably fail to achieve). Val Kilmer plays his part very well. I felt rather sorry for Joanne Whalley - an important bit part in the story, but not really present in person (one step up from an off-stage voice). It's the sort of film where you wonder afterwards if the bits you thought were straightforward were actually references and metaphors. The weakest part of the story was the group of young Goths/neo-pagan camped out on the far side of the lake. Although they were a necessary plot device, and foil to the complacent contentment of the town, they seem rather 2-dimensional.

Michael O'Keefe 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.

rabescathedral 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

alex-moreton 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.