KILLER JOE (2011)—Kentucky Fried Fellatio

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”