2002 · drama · thriller · crime
Frailty
Directed by Bill Paxton1h 40m2002
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."
Our read: Frailty (2002) reads as a heavy, steady, surreal drama · thriller · crime entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, extreme drama / thriller, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- extreme
- inventive
- twisty
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