Child Of God (James Franco, 2013)

I thought this was a fine interpretation of Cormac McCarthy's novel - a dark, tragic and enthralling story of a mentally ill man, cast out from a rural community in Tennessee. Like the novel, the film evokes horror as much as pity in a powerful rendering of psychosis, and an unflinching descent into a feral and savage state, depicted as both childlike and monstrous.

Scott Haze is terrific as Lester Ballard, and the landscape itself is a primary character. There's a great soundtrack too, by the Hell For Certain String Band, and a couple of striking scenes that made me whoop. Take out Texas and the power tools, but you do still have a distant cousin of the Tobe Hooper classic here.