Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade

Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade

1994 · 25 min · ★ 6.7 · Drama, Thriller

25 years after committing a double murder, Karl Childers is going to be released from an institution for the criminally insane. A local reporter comes to talk to him, and listens in horror about his life leading up to the crime. This is the short film that inspired the full-length "Sling Blade".

Directed by George Hickenlooper · Written by Billy Bob Thornton

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