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Despite everything that it has going for it, the writing is worse than a soap opera. It lacks the charm of better gialli and relies on being overly mean spirited. Every character is almost comically cruel. Sometimes that works --New York Ripper for example-- but here it just feels tedious and tiresome.
That said, it has great production design and a killer score.
They really don't make movies like this anymore and it's a fucking shame.
I remember feeling a bit disappointed with the first cut/release of Twixt, starting with the inexplicable shortening of the working title, now restored in the newly released "authentic cut", B'Twixt Now and Sunrise.
The film does still suffer from it's low budget constraints, but Kilmer, Dern, and Fanning are all quite entertaining to watch and the dream sequences have a Lynchian feeling to them punctuated by Dan Deacon's musical sensibilities.
All said and done it's a curious entry in Coppola's…
There's a lot of interesting ideas mashed together here, but it doesn't quite hit the mark of a masterful giallo. Still, it gets points for style and effort.