FRAILITY (2002) (****)

10 10 2002
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This is one of the best films of 2002. It’s a rare horror film that has something on its mind other than high body counts. This film will haunt your mind.

The story follows a single parent family lead by Bill Paxton (WEIRD SCIENCE, A SIMPLE PLAN), who is only known as Dad. One day he wakes his two boys, Fenton and Adam, in the middle of the night to tell them that God was given him a mission to kill demons, who are hiding out on Earth as people. Fenton (Matthew O’Leary, DOMESTIC DISTURBANCE) quickly questions whether his father has gone insane and struggles with what he should do to stop him from killing people. In a parallel story line, Matthew McConaughey (A TIME TO KILL) plays one of the kids grown up, but we’re never quite sure which one he is. There’s a serial killer on the loose calling himself the Hand of God and McConaughey goes to the FBI agent (Powers Boothe, MEN OF HONOR, TOMBSTONE) in charge to tell him that his brother is the killer.

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