The Movie: Frailty starts off with a man named Fenton (played by Matthew McConaughey) confessing to an FBI agent (Powers Boothe) that when he was a child, his father (Bill Paxton), in a fit of fanatic religious delusion, murdered a bunch of people claiming they were "demons". Apparently Fenton's younger brother Adam, now grown, has been carrying on his father's work. Most of the exposition of this film takes place in the form of flashbacks to the childhood of young Fenton.

This film was billed as a horror film, but you really see very little blood and gore at all, though the gore is always implied and nearly shown. But it wasn't (at least to me) the edge of seat thriller the cover artwork was claiming. While the flashback scenes were at times rather creepy, I was not ever fully drawn into the world of the story, never fully creeped out or startled. Not to mention the ending was somewhat predictable, and well, I hate being right when I guess how a movie is going to end. Hence, I give Frailty a "just OK".

The DVD: The DVD release of this film is very not bad. The film transfer was clean, with no extraneous dust or dirt anywhere to be seen, only a nice bright image, and a hint of the original film grain (which, at least in my opinion, should be there), with very little (or no) compression artifacts to be found, and generally good shadow detail. Audio was also quite well done, with some good use of surround mixing and good sound quality.

Special features are plentiful and consist of: three different audio commentary tracks, an "anatomy of a scene" feature, deleted scenes with optional commentary from director Bill Paxton, a making of featurette, and a gallery of still photos.