Frailty is a Horror Movie That
Didn’t Release to Immediate Impact
Frailty had to grow into
classic horror movie status. According to BHM contributor Ronnie Angel
this is one of the most well-written horror movies ever. Read on to
hear why.
Written by BHM Contributor Ronnie
Angel January 8, 2007
Release:
2001 Directed by: Bill Paxton
Starring:
Bill Paxton as Dad Meiks Matthew McConaughey as Fenton Meiks Powers Boothe as FBI Agent Wesley Doyle Matt O'Leary as Young Fenton Jeremy Sumpter as Young Adam
As you know, there are good horror movies and there are great
horror movies. With the really great horror movies, sometimes
they are released to such an immediate impact that they become instant
classics, such as The
Shining, The
Ring, The
Sixth Sense,
etc. However, sometimes those great horror films take some time to get
noticed and develop to become horror classics more quietly, by say word
of mouth. Frailty is such a movie.
I first heard of Frailty a few years back from my brother. For my
birthday he got me a copy of Frailty, and being the a-hole I am,
immediately I planned to take it back to the store unseen and get
something I have seen fifty times before instead of watching something
new. He thwarted my plan by opening it first and
saying "Don't worry,
you won't want to take this one back" so I ended up giving it a chance,
and after watching it I realized it just may have been one of the best
and most well-written horror movies I had seen in my life!
Frailty begins in Texas, where a serial killer is on the loose. This
particular killer is killing those whom he believes in his twisted mind
to be demons and “does the deed” with, guess
what?...an axe! He is being called by the media The Gods Hand
Killer.
One night a soft-spoken Fenton Meeks (Matthew McConaughey) walks into
an FBI office and informs the agent in charge (Powers Boothe) that he
knows who the Gods Hand Killer is. The killer is, he informs the agent,
his very own brother Adam! Fenton then agrees to
take the FBI agent on
a drive to his hometown where he claims the victims are buried. En
route, Fenton tells the story of his brother Adam, himself, and how all
this came about via flashbacks to the late 70s when Fenton was growing
up in a small Texas town.
The story is a happy one at first, with Fenton and his brother Adam
enjoying life in the small town with their hard working mechanic father
(Bill Paxton). Everything seems to be going fine until one night their
father wakes the boys in the middle of the night with a story of being
visited by an angel who told him that demons are
taking human form on
earth and that he must kill the demons. The boys kind of shrug it off
at first, but it soon gets much worse.
Their father becomes more and more fanatical about his vision as the
days go by. Then one day, acting on a series of
“visions”, their father comes home with an axe, a
list of names of local people, a van and gloves to wear. His father
claims that he needs the gloves for protection, for when he takes them
off and touches the “demons” he will be able to see
their sins. Dear ole’ Dad then tells the boys that
they must
all take part in the act of “destroying” the
demons, and so it begins.
Their father begins to murder person after person whom he believes to
be demons and making the boys sit through every minute of it - and even
helping too! Young Adam believes every word his father says and sees
him as a hero, while Fenton views his father as a psychopath
and tries
to stop him. The father then turns on him!
What follows is a severely twisted chain of events that leads to the
father’s eventual downfall and the present day killings. I
could say much more about this film, but I'm afraid I would give away
too much, and believe me, there are many, many surprises in
Frailty!
Directed masterfully by Bill Paxton himself,
Frailty has surprises and twists at every turn and a seriously
jaw-dropping ending. You will want to immediately
watch it over again
just to make sure that you really drink it all in. The film keeps you
on the edge of your seat for the duration and is exciting from
beginning to end - I highly recommend it!
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, 
,
etc. However, sometimes those great horror films take some time to get
noticed and develop to become horror classics more quietly, by say word
of mouth. Frailty is such a movie.
Frailty begins in Texas, where a serial killer is on the loose. This
particular killer is killing those whom he believes in his twisted mind
to be demons and “does the deed” with, guess
what?...an axe! He is being called by the media The Gods Hand
Killer.
The story is a happy one at first, with Fenton and his brother Adam
enjoying life in the small town with their hard working mechanic father
(Bill Paxton). Everything seems to be going fine until one night their
father wakes the boys in the middle of the night with a story of being
visited by an angel who told him that demons are
taking human form on
earth and that he must kill the demons. The boys kind of shrug it off
at first, but it soon gets much worse.
Their father begins to murder person after person whom he believes to
be demons and making the boys sit through every minute of it - and even
helping too! Young Adam believes every word his father says and sees
him as a hero, while Fenton views his father as a psychopath
and tries
to stop him. The father then turns on him!
