Twixt (film)

Twixt is a 2011 horror thriller film written, directed and produced by Francis Ford Coppola starring Val Kilmer and Elle Fanning, The film premiered on September 4, 2011 at the Toronto International Film Festival and was screened at various film festivals in North America, receiving a limited theatrical release in a handful of International markets. The films title, Twixt, refers to the two worlds explored in the film, the dream and the waking worlds.

The film follows Hall Baltimore Val Kilmer, adownonhisluck writer who specializes in novels based upon witch hunting. At a book signing, he is approached by Sheriff Bobby LaGrange Bruce Dern, an eccentric fan with two requests that Hall read his latest work and that he also accompany him to the morgue to view the body of a recent murder victim, as Bobby believes that it would make for a great story. Hall reluctantly agrees, and at the morgue he learns that the person was murdered by a serial killer. Despite offers from Bobby, Hall opts to not look at the victims face. At the coffee shop he learns about a local hotel that once sheltered Edgar Allan Poe. This, along with the murders and various other odd features of the town, prompt Hall to announce to his wife that he wants to write a piece based upon the town.After falling asleep, Hall is shown wandering a dreamlike version of the town, where he meets V Elle Fanning, a young girl by the name of Virginia that is nicknamed Vampira due to her strange teeth and braces. V tells Hall that shes a fan of his work but was unable to attend the signing due to the towns clock tower always giving seven different conflicting times. Hall attempts to persuade V to join him at the hotel for a soda, but she refuses to enter the lodging. Despite this, Hall enters the hotel and discovers that it is run by a strange and eccentric couple that talks about daylight savings and the towns history of murder. V appears in the window, only for the female hotel owner to shoo her away. V bites her, which prompts Hall to run outside after V and find her threatening a priest by saying that he knew what he did. Hall continues to follow V and runs into Edgar Allan Poe, who guides him back to town. ........

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