Films don't get more obscure that Coppola's 21st century output but I've got to say I quite enjoyed this shaggy dog tale with its odd bits and pieces. It's got tubby Val Kilmer as a writer described as a second-tier Steven King and the story feels like a King short story... he arrives in a small town, his career on a downward slide, and comes across a local legend about killer kids that he decides to turn into a book.
Bruce Dern is the local sheriff, Elle Fanning is girl who appears in his dreams, Ben Chaplin is Edgar Allan poe who also appears in dreams, Joanne Walley appears as Kilmer's wife via skype, Alden Ehrenreich (those 70s directors love him) is a local goth.
I enjoyed the atmosphere the spookiness. It got a little odd in the last act, a bit silly... but Coppola is more lively with violence, I'm realsing and it was fun,
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