Haze plays Lester Ballard, a repellent outcast who stalks the hill country of East Tennessee but, as the early voiceover narration intones, is “a child of God much like yourself perhaps.” ...

Lester is, in fact, a child of God — i.e., a man — but it isn’t sympathy that we feel for him. Much of the time, it’s something closer to incomprehension or outright revulsion.

James Franco is a jack-of-all-trades on his latest project, "Child of God." Actor Scott Haze plays protagonist Lester Ballard in this dramatic thriller, set in the 1960's Eastern Tennessee ...

In 1960s Sevier County, Tennessee, Lester is a handful. I’m understating. Since his daddy hanged himself, Lester is even more the antisocial, grunting hermit, shooting at strangers who threaten ...

Five minutes into Child of God, Lester's marauding around the Tennessee wilderness, hunting for game and spewing incoherent gibberish. Because even social misfits can't ignore Mother Nature, ...

Child of God offers no such thing. Lester Ballard (Scott Haze) educes sympathy initially; he’s alone, angry and determined. And even when he finds a pair of teenagers expired from noxious car ...

“Child of God.” MPAA rating: R for disturbing aberrant sexual content, nudity, language and some violence. Running time: 1 hour, 44 minutes. At ArcLight Hollywood.

James Franco’s “Child of God,” closely based on Cormac McCarthy’s novel about a twisted homicidal misfit in Eastern Tennessee (circa 1960), plays like Time-Life’s “March of Progress ...

Venice Film Review: ‘Child of God’ An extremely faithful, suitably raw but still relatively hemmed-in adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's chilling 1973 novel.

The actor wrote, directed and co-stars in the adaptation of the Cormac McCarthy novel, which premiered Wednesday night at NYC's Tribeca Grand Hotel. By Christy Smith-Sloman James Franco and Scott ...