The film stars Dakota Fanning, Guy Pearce, Emilia Jones, Kit Harington, and Carice van Houten.

One day, a new Preacher, known as "The Reverend", hosts a session at the local church, and the moment that Liz hears his voice, she seems to recognize him and is terrified by his appearance.

As he succumbs to his wounds, Eli tells Matthew to take the family up into the mountains to his father, before the boy mercy kills him.

Exodus A young girl named Joanna, walking through the desert, is picked up and nursed by a traveling Chinese family.

Elizabeth plans to sneak out of Bismuth to start a new life, and arranges through a marriage broker to marry Eli.

Anna confronts the Reverend when she realizes he lusts after their daughter, so he beats and humiliates her by placing a scold's bridle on her head.

Having found a wanted poster of Elizabeth Brundy (the woman without a tongue who killed Frank before she saved Liz/Joanna), Nathan has come to arrest her (Liz).

As Nathan is escorting her onto a ferry, with a last look at her daughter playing on the shore, Liz throws herself in the lake and drowns.

[14] In June 2015, The Hollywood Reporter confirmed that Dakota Fanning and Kit Harington had replaced Wasikowska and Pattinson in the film, respectively.

[17][18] Brimstone's first commercial release was in The Netherlands on 12 January 2017, becoming Martin Koolhoven's fifth consecutive hit film.

[29] On 29 September 2017, Brimstone won six Golden Calves (often called "The Dutch Oscars") at the Netherlands Film Festival, breaking the old record of four.

[10] While The Independent wrote "Brimstone is raw and very powerful filmmaking, a movie that can't help but get under your skin",[32] Variety wrote it was "highfalutin exploitation", blaming it on the Netherlands, writing, "It is, after all, a country that ever since the 1960s, especially in Amsterdam, has profferred a more liberal view than almost any other place of what might euphemistically be termed 'youthful sexuality'.

"[33] Glenn Kenny of RogerEbert.com referred to the film as "dimwitted, amoral exploitation" and accused Koolhoven of identifying most with the murderous and incestuous Reverend.

[34] Kevin Maher of The Times UK called it "an exploitation western that veers from self-importance to high camp.

[36] Empire gave it four stars and called it "white-knuckle tense",[37] and Peter Bradshaw wrote in The Guardian: "This epically long, lurid, violent western from Dutch film-maker Martin Koolhoven has a kind of Tarantino-ish prolixity and narrative ingenuity.