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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…

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…

Ein ganz mieser Thriller im Western-Stil. Brimstone verspricht eine kompromisslose Flucht einer jungen Frau vor dem personifizierten Bösen in Form eines diabolischen Priesters.
Guy Pearce ist in der Rolle des gewalttätigen Bibelfanatikers wahnsinnig eindrucksvoll. Er erfüllt das Klischee eines gottesfürchtigen und ihn dadurch missachtenden Predigers über seine Möglichkeiten hinaus und erschafft in der Härte der Bilder, die nicht einmal durch blutrünstige Gewaltdarstellungen entsteht, einen der miesesten Antagonisten, die ich je gesehen habe.
Die unchronologische Erzählweise sorgt für einen durchweg interessesteigernden Spannungsbogen, die die Beziehung der beiden Charakter nach und nach in seinen vier Kapiteln entschlüsselt, bis es zum erschütternden Finale kommt, dass die grausamen Bilder vorher nochmal neu ordnet und definiert.
Hinzu kommt noch eine abwechslungsreiche und wunderschöne Cinematographie, um…

Brimstone is a western coming from Dutch writer and director, Martin Koolhoven, where we see the life of a frontier girl's life unfold in a four chapter story.

The story structure of the protagonist Liz, (Dakota Fanning) gives the first three chapters as a reverse character study of where she ends up, after a life of brutalizing physical, sexual and emotional violence against her. This impacts the growing conflict, but ultimately let's us explore Liz's history, and let's our compassion and sympathy for her grow naturally. This structure also gives us a glimpse of Liz in her present state, mute and obviously damaged, but plays perfectly for the movie as we know the consequences of the story arc to follow.…

BRIMSTONE took me on a wild fucking ride - told in four anachronic parts, it would have been a really controversial topic in the pop culture discourse had it been split into a miniseries and aired on HBO or Showtime. Parts One and Two are phenomenal; I thought I was watching the beginning of a modern Western masterpiece on par with Jennifer Kent's THE NIGHTENGALE or S. Craig Zahler's BONE TOMAHAWK. I couldn't tell if Guy Pearce's Dutch accent was actually good, but Dakota Fanning was putting on a show and the story was tantalizingly dark and grim. Like, really, really dark shit. I was invested; I wanted this to be great. But then Part Three... I started to have some doubts.…