actor paxton make his directorial debut with this chilling and dark and and competently make thriller about a widowed mechanic ( paxton himself ) who rope his two son into participate in savage ax murder and claim that the victim be not human being at all but demon and and that they have be select by god to destroy these demon . this be all tell in flashback by one of the son and now grow up ( matthew mcconaughey ) to skeptical fbi agent ( power boothe ) . hard to automatically forget this film while good than most serial killer feature and it a twisty and unsettling tale tell in straightforward fashion with a bare minimum of cinema gimmick . paxton and commendably and barely show any blood at all until near the end . well act by all and especially the two child actor ( jeremy sumpter of the recent peter pan and matt oleary of spy kid 2 and domestic disturbance ) . the only reason i deduct any point at all be because i can understand that some people may find all of this hard to stomach . in any event and it an atypical thriller with a decent script . positive .