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Rated R - 2 Hours 28 Minutes
Starring: Guy Pearce, Dakota Fanning, Emilia Jones, Carice van Houten, Kit Harington
Directed by: Martin Koolhoven

Summary: A man from Liz's past arrives as the new reverend causing her to fear for hers and her family's lives!
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Amazing how fast time flies when you're watching a riveting film you just can't seem to take your eyes off for even one second! Come to think of it my eyes are awfully dry, didn't blink much throughout as I was afraid I'd miss something! Truth be known I had NO idea whatsoever that this film was nearly 2 1/2 hours long! It certainly didn't feel like it! It wasn't until I starting writing…

Reverent and ridiculous in equal measure, Martin Koolhoven’s “Brimstone” is a wild pseudo-Western that trembles beneath the biblical weight of its comically grim story. Told with a steady tone that marries the divine retribution of the Old Testament with the heightened slickness of a graphic novel, this gruesome carnival of debasement may be set in the lawless frontiers of 19th century America, but it might be more accurately located somewhere between Sodom and Gomorrah and “Sin City.” It’s the kind of movie in which an actor from “Game of Thrones” murders someone who’s taking a shit in an outhouse — the kind of movie in which a dying man, choking on a noose made out of his own intestines, still…

"Mama, are you evil?" -little girl,

Or... just don't speak.

There is stuff to like in here... the film looks good and the performances are quite eerie and engaging. There may even be a version of this story that is more tastefully done, that gets across the point(?) of the movie a little bit better. The story has good bones to it and I think telling the story out of order worked quite well in this case. That all considered this is not my thing.

It's just too much. There is a fine line between making a statement and pure exploitation and this one kind of crosses it for me. I don't even mind a good exploitation film occasionally if…

Much like the retro resurgence we’ve been experiencing over the last few years, there seems to be an ongoing effort to revive the Western genre, particularly by coupling it with Horror (Bone Tomahawk) or at least with Horror directors (Ti West’s In a Valley of Violence). It’s a trend that I’ve found enjoyable so far, leading to my excitement for the release of Brimstone despite having absolutely no clue what it was really about from the trailer. The presence of the incredibly talented Guy Pearce also got me hooked, and as it turns out, his stock in the film is perhaps the primary reason that it got made. Koolhoven had been struggling to build up the financing over the last…

Ich habe schon lange keinen so überragenden Film mehr sehen dürfen und bin immernoch mehr als sprachlos. Der hat mich emotional dermaßen durch die Mangel genommen, dass ich in gewissen Szenen kurz pausieren musste, weil mir das Gezeigte bei Weitem zu nahe ging. Guy Pearce kommt hier mit einer Performance des Jahrhunderts daher und spielt sich damit nach ganz oben in die Riege der authentischsten und beängstigendsten Filmbösewichte. Welch ein abgründiges Schauspiel.

Die Atmosphäre ist zu jeder Zeit greifbar, vielleicht mitunter sogar zu greifbar und authentisch. Mir wurde stets mit einiger Verspätung bewusst, dass mir bereits die Tränen kullerten, mir der Atem stockte und sich Gänsehaut breitmachte. Was für ein erdrückendes Erlebnis.

"Ich erinnere mich gut an sie. Sie war…

"I could tell you about Hell. About its flames. About the pain. I'm sure you people have tried to imagine what it's like. It's worse".

It's this quote which pretty much sums up Brimstone as a total experience. From the start it's clear we're not quite going to have some fun in this film.

Evil arises from the depths of religious depravity, scorching a deathly path of fire through a cursed and mortal landscape, covered by a hideous fog of eternal doom. A demon stands up with it, or maybe Lord Satan himself, in the shape of the reverend, a force of pure, unstoppable rage, unleashing a hell of nightmarish violence in the life of Dakota Fanning's mute Liz. As…

Vergesst Commodus, vergesst John Doe, und ja vergesst die zwei netten Nachbarjungs aus Funny Games. Nehmt den Reverend.

Wow..Ich weiß nicht ob ich einem Filmcharakter schon jemals mehr die Pest an den Hals gewünscht habe. Wie Guy Pierce den grausamen und fiesen Despoten mimt, ist genial und gleichzeitig so dermaßen verstörend, dass ich zwischendurch mit dem Gedanken gespielt habe, mir das nicht weiter anzutun.
Aber die Inszenierung, die musikalische Untermalung, die düstere, dreckige und ausweglose Atmosphäre die dieser Film vermittelt, ist so wahnsinnig geil, dass man einfach nicht davon los kommt und einen, ehe man sich versieht, in seinen Bann zieht.
Eventuell könnte man dem Film vorwerfen, dass er hauptsächlich durch Guy Pearce und den imaginären Geruch nach Dakota Fannings…

This is one of the best movies I've seen this year. It will also become one of my favorite westerns. Lately European directors have taken the western genre by storm with such delights as The Salvation, Dark Valley and now this brutal gem. When Europeans get a chance to work this genre they aim fucking high. This is epic in scope and story. Told in four chapters named after books in the Bible, except for one I think. Guy Pearce is a settler in America, leaving the sins of the old country and starting new in America, ruling with an iron fist the "will" of god. He's evil incarnate. Preying upon his own family we watch this hellish journey of…