Review – Frailty

Imagine you’re 11 years old or so, and imagine you’ve got the perfect dad. Now imagine one night he comes in to the room you share with your younger brother, wakes you both up and announces that an angel of God has ordered him to kill demons. Further imagine that the demons look just like ordinary people and might in fact not be demons at all. Not so good. Apparently that sort of thing can really mess a kid up. On the other hand, it makes a really good premise for a creepy horror movie. If only Bill Paxton had decided to stick with the central plot rather than snapping back and forth between the kids and their psycho dad and one of the sons grown to adulthood telling the tale to an obnoxious cop. I can’t say much about the surprise ending without spoiling it, so suffice it to say that it features some genuinely bizarre theology. Despite not caring much for the “present day” part of the production, I did get kind of a kick out of the whole Hand of God Killer thing. Mildly amusing