You might recall that, as part of this year’s Comic-Con, Francis Ford Coppola made a return to the event, bringing some footage of his indie horror thriller **Twixt. Well, if you were wondering what we saw that day, wonder no longer! The film is premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival and the fest has shoved the first trailer online, which you can watch below.
While this isn’t everything that Coppola showed off during his 'Con presentation, it’s a sizeable promo that runs longer than three minutes, which finds low-rent horror writer Hal Baltimore (Val Kilmer) arriving in a paranoid small town with some very dark secrets.
Now maybe you'll have an idea what the man who made Apocalypse Now was going on about when he talked up Twixt’s quirky, unique style. It doesn’t completely translate – the digital shooting style still doesn’t give the film the right sheen and some of the performances appear distinctly awkward. But there’s a luminescent turn by Elle Fanning and Kilmer doing his thing.
As well as launching at the festival, Coppola plans to take the film on tour and remix scenes live to suit the audience, along with some live score work. It could be an interesting way to see the movie, but given that it doesn’t yet have an official US distributor, much less a UK release set, don’t wait on the edge of your seat for that experience just yet…