When Sling Blade hit theaters in 1996, it set the tone for movies set in the South and catapulted Billy Bob Thornton to stardom. To stream THV11 on your phone, you need the THV11 app.

Sling Blade - Director's Cut Writer-director Billy Bob Thornton discusses the anniversary edition of his 1996 masterpiece.

Three years before taking Hollywood by storm with Sling Blade (1996), his blistering drama about a mentally disabled man with a mysterious past for which he won the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar ...

This week in 1996 Thornton’s “Sling Blade” was first released into art house theaters. It would go on to be nominated for two Academy Awards, with Thornton winning a little golden man for ...

Karl Childers In 1996’s “Sling Blade,” country singer Dwight Yoakam played villain Doyle, who ended up on the wrong end of Karl’s (Billy Bob Thornton) swinging lawn mower blade.

Like when someone takes a movie way too seriously and tries some wacko thing they’ve seen in a film. That’s the story of Mark Colgate, who for some reason has a thing with Sling Blade. It’s ...