There’s a lot of awful horror movie dads that come to mind around Father’s Day every year. Everett McGill’s “Man” from The People Under the Stairs or Jack Nicholson’s Jack Torrance from The Shining, for example. There’s also good horror movie dads like John Krasinski in A Quiet Place or Thomas Jane in The Mist (okay, he’s maybe a bit impatient in the end). But the duality of Bill Paxton’s “Dad” from 2002’s Frailty is quite the jagged little pill to swallow.
In the film, Paxton plays a widowed father to two young boys in a small town in Texas in 1979. He initially seems like a decent man and good father who goes to work everyday and comes home to have dinner and spend time with his kids. That is, of course, right up until he wakes them up one night to let...
In the film, Paxton plays a widowed father to two young boys in a small town in Texas in 1979. He initially seems like a decent man and good father who goes to work everyday and comes home to have dinner and spend time with his kids. That is, of course, right up until he wakes them up one night to let...
- 6/21/2023
- by Mike Holtz
- bloody-disgusting.com
Welcome back to the last Let’s Scare Bryan to Death of 2020 (thank god), where we are talking to Trace Thurman, horror writer and podcaster extraordinaire. In addition to bylines at Bloody Disgusting and Consequence of Sound, Thurman of course also co-hosts the fantastic Horror Queers podcast with previous Lsbtd guest Joe Lipsett.
As a born-and-raised Texan, Thurman had some southern-fried horror in store for me in the form of Bill Paxton’s feature-length directorial debut, Frailty. The film follows Fenton (Matthew McConaughey), a troubled young man who claims to FBI agent Wesley Doyle (Powers Boothe) that his brother Adam is the notorious murderer known as the God’s Hand Killer. Their story goes back to 1979 and the town of Thurman (a fictional town with no relation to this month’s guest), where Fenton’s quietly religious family life is shattered when his father (Paxton) claims to have had a...
As a born-and-raised Texan, Thurman had some southern-fried horror in store for me in the form of Bill Paxton’s feature-length directorial debut, Frailty. The film follows Fenton (Matthew McConaughey), a troubled young man who claims to FBI agent Wesley Doyle (Powers Boothe) that his brother Adam is the notorious murderer known as the God’s Hand Killer. Their story goes back to 1979 and the town of Thurman (a fictional town with no relation to this month’s guest), where Fenton’s quietly religious family life is shattered when his father (Paxton) claims to have had a...
- 12/23/2020
- by Bryan Christopher
- DailyDead
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