A controversial and violent new movie by the director of The Exorcist is to open this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival.
A controversial and violent new movie by the director of The Exorcist is to open this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival.
CONTROVERSIAL: William Friedkin's new film Killer Joe will open festival.
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Phil Miller Arts Correspondent
The annual festival will open with a red-carpet UK premiere of William Friedkin's Killer Joe, whose US distributors tried and failed to stop the film receiving the highest NC-17 rating, the equivalent of the old X rating.
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