Based on the true story of the West Memphis three, Atom Egoyan’s Devil’s Knot is one of the most interesting and disturbing films I’ve ever seen. Not disturbing in the way most films that Roger and I review are, but because of the amount of lunacy that occurred in the courtroom in Arkansas in 1994.

Three 8-year-old boys are found dead, bound and castrated, in the town’s river. The entire town, including the police department and court judge place the [...]