Twixt(2011)
2011 · Francis Ford Coppola · 88 min
A washed-up horror novelist arrives in a sleepy town on a book tour, only to stumble into a string of eerie murders. Haunted by dreams of a ghostly girl named V and guided by the spirit of Edgar Allan Poe, he’s drawn into a nightmarish world where fiction and reality blur—and the story he’s chasing leads back to his own buried guilt.
Mystery · Fantasy · Horror
5.1340 votes
TMDB score
2/5
Intensity
1/5
Gore
2/5
Stays with you
How scary is Twixt?
The story drifts along like a half-remembered dream, starting as a small-town murder mystery before slipping into a hazy, storybook nightmare full of ghosts and shifting memories. It's less about scares and more about mood, with a writer wandering through fog-soaked visions that blur what's real and what's imagined. There's a sad, dreamy quality to it rather than tension or dread, and it moves at a slow, wandering pace instead of building toward big frights. This one's for people who like strange, artsy horror-fantasy over anything that jumps out at you or leaves you shaken.
On The Horror Database's 0–5 scare profile, Twixt rates psychological 3/5, visceral 1/5, gore 1/5, lingering effect 2/5, and overall intensity 2/5.
- Psychological: 3 of 5
- Visceral: 1 of 5
- Gore: 1 of 5
- Lingering: 2 of 5
- Intensity: 2 of 5
Slow burn vs Jump scares: 15 of 100 — leans Slow burn
Supernatural vs Real-world: 25 of 100 — leans Supernatural
Fun-scary vs Disturbing: 30 of 100 — leans Fun-scary
Intensity over runtime
Shape only — no eventsReveal pacing shapeHide pacing shapeHidden by default — shows where the tension peaks and lets up.
A dreamlike, meandering mystery that drifts between calm and eerie without ever fully boiling over, tightening only near the end.
Intensity across the runtime, 0 to 100: 1, 1, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 3, 2, 3, 3, 4.
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