Bill Paxton directed Frailty and also has a supporting role as a disturbed, religious zealot father of two young sons.
Fenton Meiks (Matthew McConaughey) walks into the office of FBI Agent Wesley Doyle (Powers Boothe) and tells him that his brother Adam is the notorious God's Hand killer.
As Fenton travel with the FBI agent to the place where his brother buried the bodies. He recounts a tale of his childhood going back to 1979 when his world was shattered as his father had visions of demons masquerading as humans who had done evil things and who needed to be vanquished.
Frailty is unnerving but is not as gruesome as you think, the slayings are not shown. It has a supernatural element and as a thriller it works because of the unreliable narrator. There is a hint of a twist as Fenton probes Doyle as to why he himself decided to become a law enforcement officer.
Fenton Meiks (Matthew McConaughey) walks into the office of FBI Agent Wesley Doyle (Powers Boothe) and tells him that his brother Adam is the notorious God's Hand killer.
As Fenton travel with the FBI agent to the place where his brother buried the bodies. He recounts a tale of his childhood going back to 1979 when his world was shattered as his father had visions of demons masquerading as humans who had done evil things and who needed to be vanquished.
Frailty is unnerving but is not as gruesome as you think, the slayings are not shown. It has a supernatural element and as a thriller it works because of the unreliable narrator. There is a hint of a twist as Fenton probes Doyle as to why he himself decided to become a law enforcement officer.