Watch the Trailer For Francis Ford Coppola's Spooky 'Twixt'

The last time Francis Ford Coppola made a big splash with a venture into horror, it was with his romanticized and visually gripping “Bram Stoker’s Dracula” in 1992.

Was that lightning in a bottle, or a trickle from an untapped well of material that Coppola has curiously not gone to since?

We might soon find out. He has an independently produced horror tale called “Twixt” that will premiere at September’s Toronto International Film Festival, and now we have the official trailer.

Coppola’s Edgar Allen Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne-inspired tale brings together Val Kilmer, Elle Fanning, Bruce Dern and Ben Chaplin in the tale of a sorry excuse for a horror novelist (played by Kilmer) whose sojourn to a small town followed by disturbing visions send him to investigate a young girl’s (Fanning) murder.

Watch the trailer here:

Personally, I'm intrigued by this and hope this finds a wide release. I'm no big Kilmer fan. He made himself one nice career once upon a time as a decent pretty-boy lead, and probably coasted nicely for a while on his "I Was In 'Top Gun'" credibility. He was even a marginally decent Batman - though Clooney made everybody look good - and actually earned some decent marks for his starring turn in the John Holmes bio-pic "Wonderland." He looks like Coppola coaxed a good performance from him here.

I'm not really familiar enough with Fanning to form an opinion. Dern? Always solid. But odd as this may sound, I've always liked Ben Chaplin. For the unfamiliar, he hasn't starred in anything big, but I first became familiar with him in the mid '90s in the Janeane Garofalo/Uma Thurman romantic comedy "The Truth About Cats And Dogs."

He's a British actor with a tall, dark and handsome kind of air about him who seems like he could fit a number of different roles. It disappointed me a little that Hugh Grant would seemingly get roles he'd be perfect for, just because studios kept insisting Grant's charming-idiot routine would go over like gang-busters despite all that proof to the contrary.

When Coppola has a great story with which to work, magic can happen. Whether critics drub this or not, I'll give it a try.