Details

Release year: 2001

Storyline

A mysterious man arrives at the offices of an FBI agent and recounts his childhood: how his religious fanatic father received visions telling him to destroy people who were in fact "demons."

Top credits

Directors

Bill Paxton

Writers

Brent Hanley

Cast

Bill Paxton — Dad Meiks
Matthew McConaughey — Adam Meiks
Powers Boothe — FBI Agent Wesley Doyle
Matt O'Leary — Young Fenton

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Did you know

• When asked why the axe used by his character has the name "OTIS" carved into the handle, Paxton stated that he wanted the axe to have its own personality and to be unique. He found the name in Pasadena when he was there scouting for locations to film. Paxton met a homeless man and offered to give him some money. The homeless man did not want charity, so Paxton instead offered to buy the use of the man's name for his movie. The homeless man's name was Otis.

• Bill Paxton used the same beer can the entire filming of the movie because they could only find one Hamm's beer can like that from 1979. The can was "opened" off-camera and a sound effect added for popping its top (explained in the director commentary at around 52 mins).

• At the very end, the two boys that ride scooters across the screen are Matt O'Leary and Jeremy Sumpter, who play Fenton and Adam Meiks as youngsters, "almost like we're in this weird Twilight Zone world." Paxton revealed.