First Trailer for KILLER JOE Starring Matthew McConaughey
Here’s the fist trailer for William Friedkin‘s KILLER JOE. The film centers on 22-year-old Chris (Emile Hirsch) who hires a hit man (Matthew McConaughey) to kill his mother after he finds himself in debt to a drug lord. The film’s tagline couldn’t be more perfect: “A totally twisted deep fried Texas redneck trailer park murder story.” I saw the film at TIFF last year and it is very twisted and utterly bizarre. McConaughey and Temple were great but I can’t imagine this film finding a big audience. Trailer courtesy of Apple.
When 22-year-old Chris (Emile Hirsch) finds himself in debt to a drug lord, he hires a hit man to dispatch his mother, whose $50,000 life insurance policy benefits his sister Dottie (Juno Temple). Chris finds Joe Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), a creepy, crazy Dallas cop who moonlights as a contract killer. When Chris can’t pay Joe upfront, Joe sets his sight on Dottie as collateral for the job. The contract killer and his hostage develop an unusual bond. Like from a modern-day, twisted fairy tale, “Killer Joe” Cooper becomes the prince to Dottie’s Cinderella. Based on the play by Pulitzer and Tony Award winner Tracy Letts, “Killer Joe” is a garish, proactive black comedy from Academy Award-winning director William Friedkin (The Exorcist, The French Connection) and stars Emile Hirsch, Matthew McConaughey, Juno Temple, Thomas Hayden Church, and Gina Gershon.