Devil's Knot
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- Release Date
- May 9, 2013
- Director
- Atom Egoyan
- Cast
- Dane DeHaan , Reese Witherspoon , Colin Firth , Mireille Enos , Kevin Durand , Elias Koteas
- Runtime
- 114
- Main Genre
- Biography
- Writers
- Paul Harris Boardman , Scott Derrickson , Mara Leveritt
- Tagline
- They say the crimes were satanic. The truth may be scarier.
Summary
Based on the true crime book, Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three by Mara Leveritt, Devil's Knot tells the compelling story of three teenagers accused of the brutal 1993 murder of three 8-year old boys in Memphis, Ark. - two of them sentenced to life imprisonment and one to death. The film explores the lives of deeply misunderstood outsiders, their families and communities, and their darkest fantasies. The conviction of the West Memphis Three - Damien Echols, Jesse Misskelley, Jr., and Jason Baldwin - riled the American justice system, shocked a tightly knit religious town and outraged the nation.
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