I'm a fan of Smith as a director from what I've seen of his work thus far and I was curious how his first attempt at handling the horror genre would be like.

It's fairly competent on the technical side of things with some impressive sequences (the scenes set indoors are incredibly well handled) and some disturbing imagery, but Smith doesn't seem to have enough (no pun intended) faith in himself to go through with it all.

Sorta goes the way of turning it into a religious gun nut shoot out movie with John Goodman by the second half. Normally this would piss me off, but it's still well handled enough to the point where I can say I was…

"You said this was going to be a simple in-and-out, sir. Simple just shit itself." - Joe Keenan

There's something about this film that hopelessly endearing. It's like a baby being birthed into the world; confused, lost, messy and gory from all of the afterbirth that's come after it, but ever so lovable. You think that's a weird analogy? Red State is a weird film.

Beginning as an immature and unfunny teen comedy, turning into a religious torture-porn movie, then twisting itself into a siege movie and ending a religious satire that leaves a massive grin plastered across your face at the end of a relatively short 80 minutes, it's probably one of the most schizophrenic movies of all time.…

Stevil Intentions – The 2010s Horror Month

Well this isn't a horror film at all, is it? In fact, it's barely a film.

It's fucking crap, I'll say that. But because it's not a horror I guess I can't get too mad that it's another slab of turd that I've lumbered myself with during this largely disastrous project, where every decent film I've watched has been greeted by me like I've just been given the all-clear from recovering from a terminal disease.

I'm NOT a Kevin Smith hater. I liked Clerks, Mallrats, Dogma and Clerks 2, so let's just brush that under the carpet right away. Plus I don't follow him on social media and I don't really know what…

Kevin Smith loves to attract controversy, and with organised religion once again his particular target he does bring it on himself. Red State is a deviation from his comedic roots. Another pop this time at hard line Christian fundamentalists, he does go over the score with his fervent rhetoric of these crazy nutters. Gay hating,America hating, government hating, these are people portrayed as on the fringe of society,but are there really people like this? Years ago America had the government debacle that was Waco, and although this is not based on any real events, this does echo those days and have an agenda.Evil men on both sides conspire to cross a line that brings mayhem.
Teenagers with loose morals, looking…

Rest in peace, Michael Parks. Fired this up immediately after the news of his death broke out. I liked his performance in Tusk, but I’ve heard that Red State is the movie where he truly shines – so it seemed like a fitting opportunity to watch it.

And goddamn, he really is fantastic in it, acting as the head of a group of religious extremist terrorists who murder innocent people in hopes to get to heaven. Parks is terrifying in this role and it shows just how much of a talent we lost.

This movie stands out as the action-heaviest Kevin Smith film out there. The second half is just a barrage of intense shooting scenes, and I was surprised…

Red State is seriously underrated. Kevin Smith took a chance with his career here and decided to make a straight up Horror/Thriller. Which is also at the same time a massive satire towards the westboro baptist church. Michael Parks is fantastic and the whole 10 minute speech when first introduce to his character really shows how much of a fantastic actor he was, he really makes you hate him with what he says but you can tell he's putting his all into this character to have you feel that way. This is pretty gruesome at points too, with many unexpected moments and a whole craziness to it. There is a few long dragged out conversation scenes, but it makes up…