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Killing Faith
2025 108 min United States of America, Australia R 18+
★6.2
Thriller, Western
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Description
In the summer of 1859, a widowed physician reluctantly agrees to take a recently freed slave and her mysterious Caucasian daughter on a five-day journey through the bloody West to find a distant town's Faith Healer. The woman believes her daughter is possessed. The doctor believes she simply carries The Sickness. Either way the fact remains that every living thing the girl touches mysteriously dies.
Budget:
$7M
Key opinion
Killing Faith attempts to blend Western tropes with supernatural horror, resulting in a visually arresting but structurally chaotic experience. While the film features striking cinematography that captures the harsh beauty of the frontier, it ultimately struggles to reconcile its ambitious premise with a messy and disjointed narrative.
| Cinematography | The film utilizes a striking visual palette of ochre and blood that effectively captures the atmospheric, museum-like quality of the Wild West. | |
| Screenplay | The screenplay is marred by forced, unnatural prophetic dialogue that weighs down the character interactions. | |
| Screenplay | The narrative structure is disjointed and incoherent, particularly in its opening, creating a messy experience despite an interesting premise. | |
| Originality | The ambitious blend of Western and supernatural thriller genres remains largely unrealized, failing to create a cohesive tonal experience. |