Frailty is dark, disturbing, twisted, thought-provoking, and probably one of the most well crafted and profound films to come out of Hollywood in the recent past.
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04/12/02
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Frailty (2002)
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Reviews Counted:133
Fresh:98
Rotten:35
Average Rating:6.9/10
Consensus: Creepy and disturbing, Frailty is well-crafted, low-key horror.
Theatrical Release:Apr 12, 2002 Wide
Box Office: $13,076,378
Synopsis: FRAILTY is a multi-layered, tightly woven thriller starring Matthew McConaughey and Bill Paxton. Paxton will also be making his directorial debut, surrounded by a talented crew led by Bill Butler... [More]
Starring: Bill Paxton, Matthew McConaughey, Powers Boothe, Matthew O'Leary
Director: Bill Paxton
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Reviews for Frailty
Will leave you stunned and breathless.
04/12/02
This is one disturbing movie, folks. It aims to creep you out, and it delivers on all sides.
04/12/02
I don't know if Frailty will turn Bill Paxton into an A-list director, but he can rest contentedly with the knowledge that he's made at least one damn fine horror movie.
04/12/02
It just goes way over the top with little pay off.
04/12/02
Paxton sets a brooding, somber tone, and he applies the right Hitchcockian touches for the first 80 minutes.
04/12/02
A suitably suspenseful and disturbing drama.
04/12/02
Top CriticA spectacularly gruesome and emotionally destructive, if fictitious, account of child abuse, mounted to provide two tweaks of emotion in a clumsily telegraphed surprise ending.
04/12/02
Top CriticAs a first-time director, Paxton has tapped something in himself as an actor that provides Frailty with its dark soul.
04/12/02
Top CriticAn accomplished debut, but not an enjoyable one; the shivers it provokes are disturbing rather than delicious, and its story is unusually gruesome.
04/12/02
If you're in the mood to be seriously creeped out, this is the shocker for you.
04/12/02
Top CriticDumb but also unrelentingly dark and ugly, thereby depriving the viewer of any camp value.
04/12/02
Top CriticIt provides the kind of B-pulped, sadistic voyeurism that viewers should grow past but tend (mainly on video) to lap up.
04/12/02
You ... get a sense of good intentions derailed by a failure to seek and strike just the right tone.
04/12/02
Top CriticPaxton scores a double victory with Frailty, establishing a surprisingly subtle but unsettling tone as both director and actor.
04/12/02
The story of a murderer who calls himself 'God's Hands' should be psychologically unsettling. Instead, it plays prosaic.
04/12/02
All the eloquence and structure in the world couldn't save it from a fatal case of toxic ham poisoning.
04/12/02
Top CriticA genuinely creepy Southern Gothic thriller that once again proves that in horror movies, sometimes less is actually more.
04/12/02
Top CriticIt's the cinematic equivalent of a good page-turner, and even if it's nonsense, its claws dig surprisingly deep.
04/12/02
A movie that is brilliantly deceiving in its depth.
04/12/02
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