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 kill people who were in fact "demons."
Direction
Bill Paxton's only feature—confident and deeply personal
Acting
Paxton terrifyingly tender as the zealot father
Writing
Script by Brent Hanley, twist structure still unmatched
Director
Bill Paxton
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bill Paxton mortgaged his own house to secure financing when studios passed, calling it his 'test of faith.'
The 'God's Hand' killer name and methodology influenced later true-crime obsessed media; Paxton screened it for actual FBI profilers who reportedly found its psychology 'disturbingly plausible.'
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