A Part of Music Box of Horrors 2023
A mysterious man shows up out of the blue at an FBI agent's office insisting on telling him the bone-chilling story of his youth and his Father's visions supposedly from God, ordering he and his sons to eradicate people he believed were in fact demons on earth.
Bill Paxton's directorial debut is an uncompromising descent into the hellish world of the God's Hand killer. Frailty's resistance to taking the easy way out in its exploration of the potential and near inevitable darkness and violence that comes with being a religious fanatic, makes for a deeply unsettling and harrowing experience as we witness children trying to understand why their father believes he's on a murderous mission from God, and why they're forced to join him. Bill Paxton pulls double-duty delivering a horrifying performance alongside the likes of Matthew McConaughey & Powers Booth - both committed entirely to this bleak tale of the fragility of the human mind - that all culminates in an ending who's refusal to give a clear cut answer to what's real and what's imagined, will leave you haunted for days.