The official teaser trailer for Kevin Smith’s indie horror movie Red State has recently hit the web. I’m not even going to lie: I’m ecstatic. All the talk so far builds this movie up to be the reverse of the devil-worship slasher exploitation movies of the 1970s, extrapolating on the horrors of religious fanaticism of all stripes. If that’s not indie horror at its finest, I don’t know what is.
Taking the tropes and turning them on their heads? Using horror to tell intelligent stories about the human condition? Getting together some money and a cast of great actors and making something scary without having to put up with censorship and producers and bottom-line panic? If Kevin Smith wasn’t one of my favorite people before, he most certainly is now.
