Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade

Drama, Thriller

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director George Hickenlooper

Status Released

Release Date 1994-03-26

Storyline

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".