I've always liked this movie. Bill Paxton's directorial debut is one of those hidden gems of the early 2000s horror scene. It's a little bumpy and rough around the edges, it isn't going to change the world, but the story is interesting, the performances are great, and it highlights Paxton's strengths both in front and behind the camera. I've got a bit of a soft spot for it.

Kate's take: "Very dark, twisty and turny, and now I'm rethinking my parenting strategy"

Bill Paxton’s directorial debut oozes that eerie 90s psychological thriller vibe, complete with a young calm, cool, and collected Matthew McConaughey narrating us through a series of chilling flashbacks. It tiptoes the line between thriller and horror with scares derived mostly from atmosphere rather than shocks or violence, which when present is mostly offscreen. It’s also one of those films that you immediately know has a twist coming, and here its God-fearing nature either works for you or it doesn’t—personally, I found the third act to be rife with standard low budget camp, which essentially translates to “I loved it”. It’s short yet quite slow, probably my one big nitpick, but it still makes for a perfect dark & stormy night type of watch.

This film breaks my heart.

I don't find it scary. I find it terribly sad. We see every day what happens when the wrong person raises a child and fills that child with the wrong ideas, and I don't think any film has ever better captured what that feels like for the child.

I wish Bill Paxton had made 20 more movies.

Bill Paxton's underseen directorial debut, FRAILTY is a solid, chilling and twisted psychological thriller/horror about religious fanaticism. Strong performances all round especially by Paxton & Matthew McConaughey.

admirably unostentatious but mostly seems to exist for the sake of its twist ending, one that robs a fun little story of most of its more interesting ambiguities.

Insanely realistic depiction of what happens to a person after watching a Gods Not Dead movie

"I sure love peas!" - obvious future serial killer

Damn, "Supernatural" has a weirder origin story than I thought.

Nothing good could possibly come from a place called Meat, Texas.

Bill Paxton was awesome. This would make a good double feature with The Clovehitch Killer.

This is how I assume every family who goes to Megachurches spends their free time

kind of exactly like the first season of supernatural except matthew mcconaughey is narrating it

My favorite movie about how God is Real.