{"id":30245,"date":"2022-07-26T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30245"},"modified":"2022-07-20T21:08:45","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T01:08:45","slug":"killer-joe-2011-starring-matthew-mcconaughey-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30245","title":{"rendered":"Killer Joe\u00a0(2011)  Starring Matthew McConaughey \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z072622zview_killerjoe.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Killer Joe<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>(2011)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>William Friedkin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay by:\u00a0 <strong>Tracy Letts <\/strong>(based on his play of the same name)<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Starring:\u00a0 <strong>Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch, Juno Temple, Thomas Haden Church, Gina Gershon <\/strong>and <strong>Marc Macaulay<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:<em> A totally twisted deep-fried Texas redneck trailer park murder story.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Overview:\u00a0 Beware of spoilers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chris Smith (Hirsch) is debt to Digger Soames (Macaulay) to the tune of $6 grand.\u00a0 If Chris doesn&#8217;t raise the cash soon, he&#8217;s a dead man.\u00a0 Then Chris gets the idea to have his mother killed for her life insurance.\u00a0 Chris talks to his dad, Angel (Church), who quickly comes on board. He has no love for is ex-wife, but plenty of love for the idea of quick cash.\u00a0 Likewise, Angel&#8217;s wife (Gershon) is in.\u00a0 The tough sell is going to be Dottie (Temple), Chris&#8217; sister.\u00a0 They&#8217;re right, it takes about a minute for Dottie to like the idea.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chris and Angel know of a hitman called Killer Joe (McConaughey).\u00a0 Killer Joe agrees to the hit, for $25,000 paid up front.\u00a0 When Chris and Angel can&#8217;t come up with the money, Killer Joe agrees to keep Dottie as a retainer.\u00a0 As the time for the hit gets closer, Joe&#8217;s relationship with Dottie takes a turn.\u00a0 Chris begins to have doubts about the plan, but it&#8217;s too late&#8230; too late for a lot of folks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Killer Joe<\/em> is a surprisingly dark, violent, funny (at times) tale of murder for hire. It is well written, well cast and well directed.\u00a0 Thomas Haden Church plays the stupidest man in one of the stupidest families I&#8217;ve ever seen.\u00a0 I like the twist in regard to who started the idea of the hitman murder.\u00a0 With that said, I&#8217;m rating <em>Killer Joe<\/em> just 2 of 5 stars.\u00a0 There&#8217;s a scene involving Angel&#8217;s wife, a fried chicken leg and Killer Joe that goes way over the line.\u00a0 <em>Killer Joe<\/em> was released with an NC-17 rating for &#8220;graphic disturbing content involving violence and sexuality, and a scene of brutality.&#8221;\u00a0 This is a movie that divides audiences.\u00a0 I can see why people would really like it, and also why people would be turned off to it.\u00a0 That&#8217;s not a bad thing, just be aware that your mileage may vary.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Killer Joe<\/em> rates 2 of 5 stars.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_d.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z072622zview_killerjoe2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"262\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Killer Joe\u00a0(2011) Director:\u00a0 William Friedkin Screenplay by:\u00a0 Tracy Letts (based on his play of the same name) Starring:\u00a0 Matthew McConaughey,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,51,63,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-humor","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30246,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30245\/revisions\/30246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}