Frailty (2002) Critic Reviews

Andrea Yates believed she was possessed by Satan and could save her children by drowning them. Frailty is as chilling.Read the full review

A resoundingly old-fashioned and well crafted study of evil infecting an American family, Frailty moves from strength to strength on its deceptive narrative course.Read the full review

Paxton's Dad may be the most terrifying father to appear in a horror film since Jack Nicholson went crazily homicidal in "The Shining."Read the full review

Well-crafted, disturbing Texas gothic thriller, a completely spooky piece of business that gets under your skin and, some plot blips aside, stays there for the duration.Read the full review

Against all odds in heaven and hell, it creeped me out just fine.Read the full review

May leave you more cold and stunned than enlightened.Read the full review

You have to give credit to Frailty for jiggering up the formula a bit, so that what starts as an ominously low-key study of a boy coming of age with a mad father escalates into a combination of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and "Breaking the Waves" -- Grand Guignol religiosity.Read the full review

The payoff isn't worth the time invested, but at least the actor-turned-filmmaker underplays an inherently queasy project that could have been over the top.Read the full review

As disappointing as the wrap-up is, it can't erase the chilling psychological warfare that represents the majority of what precedes it.Read the full review