Frailty (DVD)

When Fenton Meik’s mother dies in childbirth, it is left to him and his father to look after the newborn child, Adam. The trio lives a simple and happy existence, with Fenton’s father making a living as a car mechanic and Fenton attending to Adam’s pastoral care. But their happiness is about to be shattered. One night, Fenton’s father awakes in a dream-like state and receives a message from what he believes to be an angel sent by God. The angel advises the man that Armageddon is nigh and that the world is full of demons, posing as human beings. Whilst God himself has plans to deal with the demons, he also needs the aid of Fenton, Adam and their father in the ...  Read the complete review

Frailty Released : 2001 Genre : Horror Rating : 15 Director : Bill Paxton Running Time : 96 minutes Cast : Bill Paxton, Matthew McConaughey, Powers Boothe, Matt O'Leary, Jeremy Sumpter, Luke Askew and Levi Kreis. Every now and again a little known film will pop up and catch every one by surprise - 'The Ring' is a prime example and so is this film. I hired the film without any prior knowledge of it and hadn't even read a review of it, I just picked it up by chance. It is a low budget horror thriller but don't let that put you off - it is full of quality and in my view easily eclipses other much higher budget ...  Read the complete review

Bill Paxton is a man you'll be more familiar with seeing in front of the camera rather than behind it, but considering the absolutely excellent job he has done with Frailty, his first attempt at taking the director's chair, we might be seeing a slight career change. Paxton has worked previously under the tutelage of some of Hollywood's great directors, such as the likes of James Cameron and Ron Howard amongst others, and obviously he has learnt a few things because Frailty is an absolutely superb directorial debut! It's easily the best horror thriller I saw in 2002 and despite an arguably unnecessarily contrived ending (which incidentally worked really ...  Read the complete review

This is quite an interesting story and the whole feel and style of it is different to what you probably are used to. The story is about a family of three, Fenton and Adam Meiks and their father. It displays your perfect happy family coping just fine without their mother who died a long time ago. However the movie knocks straight into the story when Fenton's father rushes in to tell his kids that he has had a message from god himself. He claims to have had a vision that he has been picked to do Gods work, to become Gods hand and to slay the demons. Fenton waking up the next morning believes all of it was a dream because imagine ...  Read the complete review

WHAT IS IT ABOUT: Matthew McConaughey stars as Fenton Meiks, a withdrawn man who goes into the FBI offices and admits he knows the identity of a serial murderer: his brother. He then tells his life story, of how his father believed an angel had told him and his boys to kill demons, and there the horror begins. IS IT ANY GOOD: I saw a review on IMDB.com that said "this is the scariest film I have ever seen". Whilst I wouldn't go that far, it was certainly eerie, and very entertaining. The film is a low budget affair, and that comes through mostly in the editing and cinematography, which has a strong 'made for TV' feel to it. I ...  Read the complete review