Review of Child of God

Child of God (2013)
4/10
Very embarrassing for Franco
6 June 2016
Warning: Spoilers
Complete vanity project, inside and out. There was maybe 10 minutes of movie here about an interesting character that should have been a supporting role in something else. It did not carry a whole film.

No real story. Vignettes. Severely mentally ill man in the 1960s forced to live in the forest in the mid-west (really thought it looked like the '30s). In loneliness he has sex with a dead girl. After mild harassment from the Sheriff that he probably had dozens of times, he turns into a serial killer.

Some very brief macabre elements that were interesting. Scott Haze in the lead was good with what he had to work with, albeit not much.

But Franco casting himself in a bit part near the end was ridiculous and distracting. Even more embarrassing was slapping him on the box of the DVD as a co-lead. My theory was that was the distributor, a Chinese company, making a sloppy decision.

Just a whole lotta nothing. Don't bother. Many other acceptable and OK movies you could be less disappointed in.
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