KILLER JOE tells the sordid tale of the Smith family, a pack of trailer park-inhabiting, fast food devouring survivalists who dig themselves into a hole of deceit, drugs, sexual abuse and murder. When exposed-wiring Chris needs cash to pay off his dealers, he enlists his ineffectual pot smoking father, sexually voracious stepmother and beloved sister to help in a scheme to murder his mother and collect on the insurance. Enter Killer Joe, full-time cop, part-time assassin, Betrayal and sexual terrorism spin out of control until the bloody, shocking climax of this strange love story.