FilmPsychological Supernatural Folk Horror

Frailty2002

Name: Frailty
Genre: Horror, Psychological, Supernatural, Folk Horror
Released: 2002
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Bill Paxton, Matthew McConaughey, Powers Boothe, Matt O'Leary, Jeremy Sumpter

“No soul is safe.”

Directed by Bill Paxton

IMDb 7.2RT Critics 76%Metacritic 64TMDB 6.9

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Trailer

Year

2002

Runtime

100 min

Box office

Budget

$11,000,000

Revenue (worldwide)

$17,400,000

Domestic

$13,110,448

🏆 5 wins & 18 nominations total

Synopsis

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."

The Fear Score take

Frailty works through the slow poison of a child's helplessness, watching a beloved father surrender to conviction that curdles into horror. The dread is domestic and intimate, built on a devotion you cannot reason with. It asks whether you're witnessing madness or something worse, and refuses to let you rest inside either answer.