‘Child Of God’ Trailer: Hobo With A Shotgun
2013 was a big year forJames Franco. Not only did he star in a whole bunch of things, fromSpring BreakerstoOz the Great and PowerfultoThis Is the Endto ABC’sThe Mindy Project, he also hit the film festival circuit withthreeseparate films that he’d directed. Two of them,Interior. Leather Bar.andAs I Lay Dying, have already received limited theatrical releases, but the third,Child of God, is still on its way.
Based on the novel byCormac McCarthy, the crime drama starsScott Hazeas an outcast who retreats from society, and becomes progressively more disturbed and degraded. The first teaser hitback in August, and now a full-length trailer has finally arrived.Tim Blake Nelson,Jim Parrack, andJames Francoalso star. Check it out after the jump.
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Child of Godis by most accounts an ambitious, if not entirely successful, work. Haze’s Lester is an object of both pity and extreme disgust, and — as you’d expect from a McCarthy adaptation — the movie never shies away from his shocking violent tendencies. Unfortunately, the trailer just makes it look like your run-of-the-mill horror film, albeit one with fairly strong performances. This is one case in which the teaser was way better.
(From Russ: I saw the film when it played as a secret screening at Fantastic Fest last year, and I think it is pretty damn good — if nothing else it may be the purest vision of Cormac McCarthy to hit the screen, and Scott Haze, the lead, is seriously determined in his performance. That said, it isn’t for everyone, and doesn’t shy away from alienating audiences right off the bat.)
