Director: Ned Crowley
Cast: Guy Pearce, DeWanda Wise, Bill Pullman, Raoul Max Trujillo, Ryan de Quintal
Killing Faith is a 2025 American-Australian Western thriller directed by Ned Crowley, starring Guy Pearce and DeWanda Wise. Set against the violent landscapes of the 1859 frontier, it follows a reluctant doctor and a freed slave woman as they escort her strange daughter toward a rumored Faith Healer — and confront something neither science nor faith can explain.
What is Killing Faith about?
The summer of 1859 finds a widowed physician dragged into an unlikely escort mission across the blood-soaked American West. His traveling companions are a recently freed slave woman and her young daughter — a girl who carries an unsettling secret: every living creature she touches falls dead. The mother is convinced the child is under demonic possession; the doctor, a man of medicine, searches for a rational cause he cannot name. Over five harrowing days of travel, the frontier itself seems to resist their passage — weather, strangers, and the girl's growing danger force both adults to question everything they believe about life, death, and what lies between.
Cast & crew
Guy Pearce, the Australian actor known for intense character work across decades, leads as the conflicted physician. DeWanda Wise brings fierce emotional grounding to the freed slave mother navigating impossible stakes. Bill Pullman and Raoul Max Trujillo appear in supporting roles, while younger cast members Jack Alcott and Charlie Talbert round out a strong ensemble for this genre crossover.
Context & significance
Western thrillers with a supernatural undercurrent have long attracted global audiences who enjoy moral ambiguity set against historical trauma. For Persian-speaking diaspora viewers, Killing Faith offers the familiar thriller architecture — mounting dread, confined travel, characters tested beyond their limits — in the stylized register of the American frontier. The film is available with full Persian dubbing, making it accessible across generations, including viewers who prefer Farsi-language audio. It is a U.S.–Australian co-production, not an Iranian title, but its themes of outsider survival and contested belief resonate widely across cultures.
Where & how to watch
Killing Faith is available now on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles. Watch in your browser, on your TV, or on your phone — no VPN needed, no geo-blocking, no extra download required. Subscribe and cancel anytime.