Frailty (film)

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Frailty
promotional poster for Frailty
Directed by	Bill Paxton
Produced by	David Blocker] David Kirschner, Corey Sienega
Written by	Brent Hanley
Starring	Bill Paxton Matthew McConaughey Powers Boothe
Music by	Brian Tyler
Cinematography	Bill Butler
Editing by	Arnold Glassman
Distributed by	Lions Gate (USA) Paramount Pictures (UK, Australia, Japan) 20th Century Fox (Argentina)
Release date(s)	November 17, 2001 (Deep Ellum Film Festival)
Running time	100 min.
Language	English
Budget	$11,000,000 (estimated)
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Frailty is a 2001 mystery / horror film, directed by Bill Paxton and starring Bill Paxton and Matthew McConaughey. The score was composed by Brian Tyler.

1 Plot
2 Details
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

A man enters the Dallas, Texas FBI offices one rainy night claiming his name is Fenton Meiks (Matthew McConaughey). He wants to speak to Agent Doyle (Powers Boothe) about his belief that his brother Adam (Levi Kreis) is the notorious "God's Hand Killer" serial killer. As the detective probes for more information a shocking story unfolds of the disturbing childhood of the two brothers and their strange relationship with their father (played by Paxton); who claims their family has been chosen by God to become demon hunters.

Fenton claims that one night in the late seventies their father entered their room and told them that he had been tasked by God to root out and destroy demons whose names were to be provided for him by an angel. Soon he discovers tools that are also to aid him: gloves to protect his hands (when he touches a demon with his bare flesh, he sees their sins), a pipe to knock them unconscious, and an axe to destroy them with. Together, Dad, Adam, and Fenton start catching the people on the father's list and start to dismember and bury them in the rose garden behind their house where they are told the bodies will never be found. While Dad claims to see the demons' sins when they are touched, Fenton thinks that his father has gone insane and that his brother Adam is only echoing his claims due to his father's influence.

While trying to stop his father from killing more people, Dad comes to Fenton and tells him that the angel has named him as another demon that will someday need to be dealt with. He tasks Fenton with digging a basement below their shed so they can dismember the demons more privately and then locks his son inside to circumvent the eventual need to slaughter him. When Fenton reveals that he has had an epiphany of sorts, Dad takes him on another demon hunt and uses his help to bring their latest victim home. Standing back with Adam while he gives Fenton the axe to destroy the demon, Dad is unaware that Fenton has been lying until his son turns and kills him with the axe instead.

The story reverts back to the present. Fenton tells Agent Doyle that he can show him the location of the bodies, and they drive out to the rose garden. Once there, Fenton reveals he is really Adam, that his real brother Fenton was a demon and the serial killer the FBI was searching for, and that Agent Doyle was put on his list by the angel because of Doyle murdering his own mother which he reveals by touching him. Adam does away with Doyle, buries him in the rose garden, and leaves.

The FBI, while searching for Doyle, finds that static has obscured Adam's face in all security cameras in their offices, that none of the other agents can remember Adam's face, etc., revealing the twist ending to the film being that Dad was right, God did task them to kill demons, and that he continued to protect them until their job was finished.