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Plot Summary
On a sweltering Texas summer night in 1989, husband and father Richard Dane (Dexter's Michael C. Hall) awakens to the sound of a burglar breaking into his home. In a panic, he shoots the intruder dead—but this nightmare is only just beginning. Although he's hailed as a small-town hero, Dane soon finds himself fearing for his family's safety when the burglar's ex-con father, Ben (Sam Shepard), rolls into town; hell-bent on revenge. However, not all is as it seems. Misled by the cops and desperate for answers, Richard embarks on an increasingly berserk, bloodstained quest to discover what really happened that night. The plot twists pile up faster than the body count in this blistering mystery of vengeance and vice, directed by Jim Mickle (Stake Land, We Are What We Are) with scene-stealing performances from Sam Shepard and Don Johnson as a pair of Texan badasses. Based on the novel by Joe R. Lansdale.
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
TOMATOMETER
85%- Reviews Counted: 100
- Fresh: 85
- Rotten: 15
- Average Rating: 7.0/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: A tangled tale of crime and punishment that mines the Lone Star lore of guns and killing.
Fresh: Mickle's bracing sense of style and cinematographer Ryan Samul's moody visuals keep it gripping until the final bullet is fired.
Rotten: Strictly for connoisseurs of violent genre pulp.
Fresh: It doesn't cut too deep. But that can be a relief sometimes, and even a virtue.
Customer Reviews
Great flick!!!
Fun movie, great cast, great characters and great filmmaking. Missed this when it was in theaters but loved Mickle's STAKELAND and Don Johnson, Sam Shephard and Michael C Hall are all fantastic. Takes a lot of twists and turns but never a dull moment - a big fan of Lansdale graphic novels and pulpy genre fiction - good, gritty Texas genre stuff
Ridiculous
A series of ridiculous turns filled with cliched dialogue and people it is impossible to care about. I can’t for the life of me understand what the Rotten Tomatoes critics saw in this crap-fest.
"...It’s Howdy Doody Time"
Being a long-time Don Johnson and Sam Shepard fan, I knew I had to see this film, and I’m glad I did. When an everyday man sees something that makes him question the framework of morality around him — then sees something darker yet — can he just turn away and go back to life pretending to forget? Or does he take the chance to make things right? In this twisted Inferno, Michael C. Hall’s “Dane" is Dante, and Don Johnson and Sam Shepard are his Virgil as they guide him through the Texas Hell that awaits his decision. The journey is dark and entertaining. Every once in a while Rotten Tomatoes gets it right. This is one of those times. Definitely worth a watch.
