A psychological thriller with a genuinely spooky premise and an above-average cast, actor Bill Paxton's directing debut is a creepy slice of gothic rural Americana. FBI agent Wesley Doyle (Powers Boothe), who's working on the case of a Texas serial killer who calls himself "God's Hands," gets a late-night visit from a polite young man named Fenton Meiks (Matthew McConaughey). Meiks claims to know the killer's identity and Doyle, skeptical but reluctant to dismiss a lead out of hand, agrees to hear Fenton's story of madness and murder. It starts in 1979, when 12-year-old Fenton (Matthew O'Leary) and his nine-year-old brother Adam (Jeremy Sumpter) are living in small-...
Released:
2002
Rated:
R
Length:
100 mins