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…

RED STATE (2011)
"Set in Middle America, a group of teens receive an online invitation for sex, though they soon encounter fundamentalists with a much more sinister agenda."

After the dismal performance of Cop Out (2010) at the box office and with the general public, it seemed filmmaker Kevin Smith was on that downward slope towards making more terrible movies. Thankfully, he completely reinvented himself with Red State, a horror film unusually unlike any horror film I've ever seen mainly because it tackles a more realistic, grounded horror: overzealous, religious fundamentalist cultish behavior in America. I didn't know what to expect first time I watched this, but I was pleased although my brain is muddled with divisive thoughts. For an…