13 minutes of Texas rage that'll gut you harder than most 3-hour epics.
Set in rural Texas the story chronicles an unnamed man with a broken spirit. In the beginning we see him returning to his family. Where he’s been is unknown. Wherever it was – prison, maybe war – the years have not been kind to him. In spite of his family’s warm welcome the man can’t shake an anger that builds in him so he must leave them again. This time to return to the land that was once theirs, a land that had been in the family for generations, a land that has been stolen, plundered, and sewn with seeds of greed. There’s a force at work, a corruption that destroys homes, nature, families, and memories. The Man decides to lay his stakes down and pits himself against it all. He is on a ruinous mission to sate the hatred in his heart with the knife he carries in his hand.
Cinematography
Lowery shoots Texas like a ghost already happened.
Acting
Charles Baker's simmer-before-boil precision.
Direction
Johnston trusts silence more than most feature directors.
Director
James M. Johnston
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of the 2010s 'mumblegore' wave—Austin filmmakers making art-horror on nothing budgets, often starring each other.
David Lowery shot this while editing his own debut St. Nick; the burnt-amber look became his signature before A Ghost Story.
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