British distributors Entertainment One have officially announced that they will release on Blu-ray director William Friedkin's (The French Connection) latest film Killer Joe (2011), starring Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch and Juno Temple. The release will be available for purchase online and in shops across the United Kingdom on November 5th.
The current press announcement does not list supplemental features for this upcoming release.
When small-time drug dealer Chris Smith finds himself seriously in debt to his supplier, he hatches a plan to have his estranged mother killed in order to claim the $50,000 life insurance due to be paid to his younger sister, Dottie. To do the job, he hires Killer Joe Cooper, a creepy, corrupt and crazy Dallas cop who Chris is informed moonlights as a professional hit man. Unable to pay Joe's fee upfront, Chris agrees to provide a "retainer" in the form of Dottie, with whom Joe has immediately become besotted. However, following the murder of his mother, Chris' plan begins to unravel in a series of unexpected twists involving the interference of his father's new wife, Sharla, and the development of an unlikely bond between Joe and Dottie.