A new poster has been released by Image Entertainment for crime thriller Devil's Knot (right; click for larger image). The tagline: "The say the crimes were satanic. The truth may be scarier."
The police identify three teens, aka the West Memphis Three, as committing the murders during a satanic ritual but the truth may be scarier as a mother (Reese Witherspoon) and investigator (Colin Firth) suspect all is not as it appears.
Directed by Atom Egoyan from an adapted screenplay by Paul Harris Boardman and Scott Derrickson and based on the book Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three (more about the book, below), Devil's Knot opens in US theaters in 2014.
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Devil's Knot
Mara Leveritt
For weeks in 1993, after the murders of three eight-year-old boys, police in West Memphis, Arkansas seemed stymied. Then suddenly, detectives charged three teenagers—alleged members of a satanic cult—with the killings.
Despite the witch-hunt atmosphere of the trials, and a case which included stunning investigative blunders, a confession riddled with errors, and an absence of physical evidence linking any of the accused to the crime, the teenagers were convicted. Jurors sentenced Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley to life in prison and Damien Echols, the accused ringleader, to death.
The guilty verdicts were popular in their home state—even upheld on appeal—and all three remained in prison until their unprecedented release in August 2011.
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