First Look at William Friedkin’s Black Comedy ‘Killer Joe’ NC-17 Trailer
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The ending is the apparent reason for the MPAA rating, as the famed Exorcist director William Friedkin has refused to compromise his work. The film stars Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch, and Thomas Haden Church in a play-turned-screenplay by Tracy Letts. The poster’s marketing brands it as a “totally twisted deep- fried Texas redneck trailer park murder story”.
What do you think? Will the “graphic aberrant content involving violence and sexuality, and a scene of brutality” keep you from seeing it in theaters, or are you all the more intrigued?
That trailer is so tonally off. The movie is pure black comedy, never taking anything seriously. Funny banjo music would’ve set a more honest tone to the trailer than the music they used.
“graphic abberant content”… Does that mean “very specific depictions of stuff we think is weird?” Gotta love the MPAA. Good for you William Friedkin. I will see this movie on general principle if it ever comes near my town.