Frailty
"Sometimes truth defies reason." Fenton is just your average young teenage boy living in a small town in Texas in 1979. He’s interested in girls, watches The Dukes of Hazzard , sneaks into R-rated movies at the local theater, and struggles to help his windowed father (Bill Paxton) raise his younger brother Adam. They’re as happy and complacent as three peas in a pod until one night dad wakes the two boys, claiming that he has been tasked by God to destroy demons here on earth. Frailty seamlessly blends a little bit of horror, a touch of thriller, some Southern Gothic, and religious fanaticism all into one movie practically creating its own genre. Told through Fenton’s (Matthew McConaughey) flashbacks as he confesses to the FBI Special Agent (Powers Boothe) that his brother, Adam is the notorious “God’s Hand” serial killer, who’s just claimed his fifth victim. Expertly directed by Bill Paxton; he helms the story with the tender care of a loving father. He explores del