Adam returns to his life as a small-town Texas sheriff, expecting a child with his wife, without suspicion and free to continue “destroying demons.” Some members of test audiences walked out when the first “demon” was revealed to be an average-looking woman.įrailty is unrelentingly tense because of its unreliable narrator recalling events that either indicate psychosis overtaking his family or the existence of supernatural entities like angels and demons. Supernatural forces also seem to prevent Adam’s capture, and the FBI finds evidence in Fenton’s (who had been “destroyed” by Adam immediately prior to the events of the film) home to pin the “God’s Hand” murders on him. Back in the present, Fenton reveals to the FBI agent that he is actually Adam Meiks and the FBI agent appeared on his “list of demons.” A flashback reveals that the agent had previously murdered his own mother and that the other “demons” really were guilty of heinous crimes. Adam then takes up the axe and kills their hostage. During the family’s next attempt to destroy a demon, Fenton kills his father rather than the man his father insists is a demon. Warning, spoilers ahead: Fenton’s father reveals that an angel told him Fenton was a demon. If you’re a sane child, surrounded by insane elders, what hope is there for you? Where can you possibly turn? Jim Vorel, ABCs of Horror: “F” Is for Frailty (2001) Where it thrives is in the uncertainty of its narrative, and its unique ability to capture the true terror of childhood, which is an almost total lack of agency in comparison with the adults who surround you.
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However, Fenton’s insistence that the sheriff look for clues ends with his father murdering the sheriff, upset because he had to murder a “person” and not a “demon.”įrailty is clearly a movie of modest means. When he runs away and tells a local sheriff the story, the sheriff sides with his father and brings Fenton home. For his lack of faith, Fenton’s father imprisons him in a hole beneath their shed. While Adam is young enough to accept his father’s story without question, Fenton is trapped in a living nightmare isolated from the outside world because the only adult in his life has become unreliable. A single Hamm’s beer can from 1979 was used over and over, as it is the only one production could locate. Soon after, he brings a woman to their home and kills her with an axe in front of his sons. In a lengthy flashback to 1979, Fenton tells the story of how his life was forever changed one day when his father (Bill Paxton) announced that he had been visited by an angel who had given him and his sons the job of destroying demons. The film starts out with the older of the brothers, Fenton Meiks (well acted by Texas native Matthew McConaughey), visiting an FBI agent in the present time to alert him that he believes his brother Adam (Levi Kreis) is the “God’s Hand” killer they are seeking.
The problem? The “demons” he believes he needs to “destroy” are ostensibly just random people. In 2001, Bill Paxton starred in his own directorial debut, Frailty, a deeply unsettling psychological thriller (and low-key family drama) about two brothers whose father has a vision that God asked him to destroy demons.
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