{"id":2169026,"date":"2025-11-20T19:46:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T19:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2169026"},"modified":"2025-11-20T19:46:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T19:46:10","slug":"killing-faith-review-guy-pearce-escorts-a-freed-slave-and-her-strange-child-in-offbeat-genre-hybrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/killing-faith-review-guy-pearce-escorts-a-freed-slave-and-her-strange-child-in-offbeat-genre-hybrid\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Killing Faith\u2019 Review: Guy Pearce Escorts a Freed Slave and Her Strange Child in Offbeat Genre Hybrid"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Once ubiquitous in American theaters (and still quite healthy in Taylor Sheridan<\/a>\u2019s domain), big-screen Westerns are relatively scarce these days. When such tales do surface, however, they\u2019re increasingly comingled with a genre that\u2019s very much on the rise: horror. The latest such shotgun marriage, \u201cKilling Faith<\/a>,\u201d is a somewhat murky and unsatisfying one. Still, its intriguing premise, able cast and bursts of violence hold attention even as writer-director Ned Crowley<\/a>\u2019s execution never quite realizes his concept\u2019s potential. After a limited theatrical stint last month, Shout! Studios\u2019 release is now available on demand.<\/p>\n

An unspecified \u201cgreat sickness\u201d plagues the Arizona territory of 1849, felling humans and livestock alike. Apparently immune from it is a ranch inhabited by freed slave Sarah (DeWanda Wise<\/a>) and her young daughter. They look nothing alike, a fact eventually explained by the intel that Sarah was deeded the place by her late owner-slash-domestic partner,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Once ubiquitous in American theaters (and still quite healthy in Taylor Sheridan\u2019s domain), big-screen Westerns are relatively scarce these days. When such tales do surface, however, they\u2019re increasingly comingled with a genre that\u2019s very much on the rise: horror. The latest such shotgun marriage, \u201cKilling Faith,\u201d is a somewhat murky and unsatisfying one. Still, its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2169027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2169026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/\u2018Killing-Faith-Review-Guy-Pearce-Escorts-a-Freed-Slave-and.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2169026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2169028,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169026\/revisions\/2169028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2169027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2169026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2169026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2169026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}