KILLER JOE (2011)—Kentucky Fried Fellatio

Cinema of Cruelty (Movies for Masochists)

On this week’s annotated deep dive, The Cultists present William Friedkin’s ‘Killer Joe’ (2011). Notable as the film that jump-started the brief but shinning “McConaissance," this charming humble tale tells the story of a group of morally bereft human trash-fire Texans who will do whatever it takes to kill mom. London and Benji explore how this “American southern-gothic, dark comedy, crime film” puts the joy back into casual matricide in a way that only a Friedkin-Letts collaboration can. (And why no watcher has ever been able to look at a chicken leg the same way ever again.)

Episode Safeword: “vegan”