Synopsis
A mysterious man arrives at the offices of an FBI agent and recounts his childhood: how his religious fanatic father received visions telling him to kill people who were in fact "demons."
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Cast
- Bill PaxtonDad Meiks
- Matthew McConaugheyAdam Meiks
- Powers BootheFBI Agent Wesley Doyle
- Matt O'LearyYoung Fenton
- Jeremy SumpterYoung Adam
- Luke AskewSheriff Smalls
- Levi KreisFenton Meiks
- Derk CheetwoodAgent Griffin Hull
- Missy CriderBecky Meiks
- Alan DavidsonBrad White
Recommendations
- 88
New York Post
Genuinely creepy Southern Gothic thriller that once again proves that in horror movies, sometimes less is actually more. - 80
Chicago Reader
It's good old-fashioned rural gothic that would make Flannery O'Connor proud, with tricky switcheroos that keep shaking up our assumptions about what's going on. - 75
Entertainment Weekly
Against all odds in heaven and hell, it creeped me out just fine. - 75
Miami Herald
It's the cinematic equivalent of a good page-turner, and even if it's nonsense, its claws dig surprisingly deep. - 75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Blood-curdling stuff. - 70
Washington Post
May leave you more cold and stunned than enlightened. - 63
Chicago Tribune
Most of Frailty is so good -- done in a low-key, realistic mood of genuine creepiness and dread -- that it doesn't need formula shocks. - 60
L.A. Weekly
Audiences are destined to debate the film's final scenes, where Hanley piles on plot twists, leading to a coda that turns a creepily ambiguous story about God and the terrifying power of paternal love into something closer to an X-File.
