Brad Dourif, Harry Dean Stanton, Amy Wright
A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the world. He decides that the best way to do that is to become a preacher and start up his own church.
DVD Release Date: May 12, 2009
Stats: 98 reviews
A young man, scrawny and unassuming, stands on top of his clunker and shouts "I'm member and preacher to the Church where the blind don't see and the lame don't walk and what's dead stays that way". He is Hazel Motes (Brad Dourif), a lost soul and the victim of a repressive child...( read more)
brad dourif is like a man possessed. well, he's generally like that but it works perfectly for hazel motes, prophet of the church of truth without christ. this is twisted southern gothic, full of grotesque characters, and a fine adaptation of flannery o'conner's novel, about a ...( read more)
This is from the Criterion Collection, which is a fine collection of over 500 Movies, check out there web site. Its Directed by John Huston and based upon a novel by Flannery O'Connor, This one was a little hard for me to grasp, its about a young man returning from military servi...( read more)
I thought this movie was great. It was very serious yet very funny. Brad Dourif was perfectly casted as Hazel Motes.
freaked me the hell out! but i think i liked it. had that whole southern movie drawl that im starting to really like about these types of films... director of other southern flicks tim sigur would agree?! i can see how someone wouldnt like this but i think you just gotta be patie...( read more)
A fascinating film. Directed by John Huston and based upon a novel by Flannery O'Connor, I was immediately drawn into the film, but can totally understand how someone could find it hard to get into. Brad Dourif is awesome in the lead role and the always reliable Ned Beatty gives ...( read more)
brad dourif in a very shouty role as a religous guy believing in a religion without jesus christ, and hisexploits as he visits a small town after coming home from the army, dourif is good in this, he was great during the 70s, and not being a athiest my self, loved the little bash...( read more)
Not so much against Religion but this movie is more based around the unhealthy obsessions brought on by strong belief. Brad Dourif attempts to start a 'Church without Christ' gaining virtually no followers and eventually he becomes a somewhat developing figure of evangelism. He d...( read more)
One of John Huston's fine literaray adaptations. The psychological portrait of a non-believer obsessed with the idea of Christ is fascinating.
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