Frailty is a perfect exploration of childhood fear as it collides with religion. Bill Paxton's deliberately reserved direction makes the horror more effective in it's reliance on reactions and suggestion. Every twist delivers and sticks the landing!

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 26, 2024

[Frailty] still packs a chilling punch to the gut that stands the test of time today.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 17, 2022

Paxton creates a memorable story that, while supplying too many answers about its own ambiguities, offers the chance to find multiple readings.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 12, 2022

Actor Bill Paxton's assured directorial debut feels like you're sitting around a campfire in the deep woods, listening to a master raconteur spin an urban legend...

| Nov 2, 2021

Grim, but effective, Paxton's debut is authentically creepy. An enduring and inventive vision of horror.

| Oct 14, 2021

Sin llegar a la categoría de clásico, 'Escalofrío' es un film que logra trascender su condición de serie B de estudio independiente porque era tan extraña en su momento como lo es ahora con la mirada en perspectiva. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 9, 2021

Frailty is an absolute gem.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Oct 23, 2020

... marvelously off-balance and under-the-skin creepy from the first few minutes.

| Mar 9, 2017

Frailty is disturbing, all right, but then so is sticking needles in your eyes. And I wouldn't recommend either.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 8, 2014

Paxton steals the show. And O'Leary more than holds his own again here. Too bad it's in a movie that fails to live up to its potential.

| Jul 30, 2013

...a solid thriller from a promising first-time director.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 18, 2011

Violent and ultimately uneven and unsatisfying.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 24, 2010

One of the best horror mysteries ever conceived and yet one constantly over looked.

| Apr 29, 2009

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.

Full Review | Nov 21, 2008

Frailty marks a fine directorial debut for Bill Paxton. He judges the material expertly and brings it to the boil effectively ...

| Oct 18, 2008

Bill Paxton, longtime bit-player and significantly underrated character actor, makes his directorial debut with Frailty, a joyless tale of one family's psychotic cycle of violence.

| Jul 2, 2008

The film's just about perfect.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 17, 2008

Feels like "Sling Blade" rewritten at a crawl by Stephen King.

| Original Score: D | Feb 13, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 14, 2007

An overpraised thriller that's really as superficial as a bruise.

| Original Score: C- | Aug 5, 2007