Seraphim Falls

Frequent television director David Von Ancken (Oz and The Shield) offers a thrilling meditation on the true nature of revenge with this post-Civil War era tale of a one man's quest to put his nemesis in the ground, and another man's struggle to survive at any cost. Deep in the snowy mountains of the ...more

Though long ago sentenced to hang, the Western genre twice received a reprieve from the gallows in 2007, most significantly with the much-anticipated, big-budget remake of 3:10 to Yuma. First, however, came this independent period drama from respected television director David Von Ancken and screenwriter Abbey Everett Jaques. Its novelistic nature and low profile resulted in predictably modest ticket sales, but Seraphim Falls (2007) is a smart, cynical cowboy epic begging for rediscovery by the ...more