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Red State (2011)

R  |   |  Action, Crime, Horror  |  30 September 2011 (UK)
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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.

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The teenager Jarod invites his best friends Travis and Billy-Ray to have a foursome with a thirty-eight year-old woman. While driving to meet the woman, Travis hit a car parked on the road. When they meet the woman, she gives spiked beer to them and they pass out. When the three friends wake up, they find that they are trapped in the fundamentalist Five Points Trinity Church of the infamous Pastor Abin Cooper and that they will be killed. Meanwhile the church is under siege by ATF agents led by Agent Joseph Keenan that have been ordered to destroy the terrorist cell. Will the teenagers be saved by the agents of the law enforcement agency? Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Rated R for strong violence/disturbing content, some sexual content including brief nudity, and pervasive language | See all certifications »

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Kevin Smith wrote the script around the same time he was writing Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008) and presented them both to the Weinstein brothers. They immediately gave the green light to Zack and Miri Make a Porno, but declined on Red State fearing its story was too bleak to attract an audience. Had they green lit, Red State would've been shot back to back with Zack and Miri. See more »

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Joseph Keenan: People just do the strangest things when they believe they're entitled. But they do even stranger things when they just plain believe.
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like standing on violently moving tectonic plates
10 October 2011 | by (United Kingdom) – See all my reviews

this isn't a good thing like woo hoo like it's a rocking 'ride'.

this is irritating, nauseating and intrusive at times, actually.

there is a religious diatribe by the evil protagonist, sermonising to his sycophantic brain- washed flock. this diatribe runs and runs and runs in the second act - I mean I was sitting the in the auditorium thinking wtf. cut cut CUT. This diatribe must be 10 minutes long. Up to this point I was running with the premise and some of the tension. the politics were light weight to be frank but I really did not pay to listen to some nut and every aspect if his thinking about the "evilness of gays.. and anal... etc.. etc". A page of script would have sufficed tyvm Kev.

it has it's OK moments but it has it's extreme weirdness too - weirdness that does not work particularly well. try something surprising and unusual - yes. but sometimes you look at an edit with a fabulously quirky idea and even though you own it, if it sucks, f**king kill the thing ffs.


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