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To me, this movie is perfection.

Memorable, crazy movie

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

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.

This is my first review. I watch horror films. As often as possible. Daily, if given the choice. I would never post a review for a non horror film. I respect all sub genres of horror but I do not tolerate pretentious filmmaking. This movie is excellent. It has everything . Mystery, horror, cast, vision, emotion, humor, talent, etc... It feels like Coppola needed to get this film out of his system. There is no finer masterpiece than the shameless pent up aggression of a true master of film. It's a gem.I consider this true horror and true expression without worry. Coppola could care less about negative reviews of this film and it shows in a good way.

Anyone who is confused about what this film is about is an idiot. I said it. You heard me. It's pasted all over the dang film, no matter how many dutch angles Coppola wants to throw in to try and upset easily frightened people.It's revealed in a very early line from Val "Unfortunately Fat in His Later Years" Kilmer's character Baltimore. He's talking to his wife through Skype. Because apparently he can afford a Macbook but not a cellphone. And he says he wants to write a book for himself. Not the crap witch bidness he's been pretending to know about for the last ten (?) years. Dear old Frankie wanted to make a movie for himself and it's going to be weird as heck and Eff yoo, A-hole.This movie is about an author who wants to separate himself from the "Death of the Author" idea but still make a paycheck. Heckadawsh, Val even has Sheriff "I don't need the paycheck but I love it" Berns call him out as a "Third tier Steven King". He knows he is and he don't give a flying dookie at least not yet.This movie is entirely about the creative process. How an author creates a story largely independent of a profit-driven business. For whatever weird reason, it also has some beautiful cinematography. The pale shots of Virginia in her taffeta, the stark reds of the carpets in the hotel, the weird changing of colors for the whiskey, the odd illumination affects in anything that was a light source...beautiful....but also left me thinking Kyle MacLachlan was about to saunter out and ask about the coffee.Sometimes they tie his arms back, I hear. But the coffee is damn good. And hot!!

A writer in a declining career arrives in a small town as part of his book tour and gets caught up in a murder mystery involving a young girl. That night in a dream, he is approached by a mysterious ghost. He's unsure of her connection to the murder in the town, but is grateful for the story being handed to him. He is led to the truth of the story, surprised to find that the ending has more to do with his own life than he could ever have anticipated....If you expect a comeback of sorts from Coppola, stay away, it's not in the same league of any if his greats, this was more of an experiment for him in editing, that went a bit awry.But saying that, its a strange little film that harks of Twin Peaks merged with The Company Of Wolves, If written by Stephen King. In fact, there are lots of elements that are familiar in the narrative.A sleepy town has a secret uncovered, when a writer comes to town, it's been done before, and had me thinking of Misery, The Shining, and Secret Window.But the story isn't really the important part of the film ironically, it's the cinematography and the wonderful, boozy dream sequences Kilmer has that makes this the curious piece that it is.Its a predictable enough story, fused with bizarre but brilliant things, Poe popping up every now and again, and the brilliant inclusion of Whalley as Kilmer's long suffering wife.So all in all, its nothing brilliant, amazing to look at, and very bizarre, but homaging Stephen King a little too much.