Kevin Smith Targets RED STATE for Horror Movie

Geek King Kevin Smith has finally decided what the plot of his oft-mentioned horror movie will be — sort of. It’ll be called “Red State”, and according to this, Smith is basing it off psycho Midwest preacher Fred Phelps, who is infamous for taking a supremely homophobic stance and for picketing the funerals of soldiers killed in Iraq for media attention. Apparently Smith doesn’t actually consider it a horror movie, and the way he’s talking, he’s going to do this with a straight face. Hmmm. I don’t know if that’s such a good idea, Kevin. But I could be wrong.

Says Smith:

“And to me, too, the notion of using a Phelps-like character as a villain, as horrifying and scary as that guy can be, there’s even something more insidious than him that lurks out there in as much as a public or a government that allows it and that’s the other thing that I’m trying to examine in a big, big way. It’s weird because for a few months I’ve been saying ‘horror movie’ and technically it is, but it’s also not a very traditional horror movie in the sense that people have been asking me, ‘Is it a slasher movie? Is it like the Japanese horror flicks?’ It’d be much easier to just show it to them when I’m done and be like, ‘This is what I meant.’ At which point I’m sure there’ll be people saying, ‘This ain’t a horror movie!’ But to me, it is.”

Geez, Kevin, sounds almost as good as “Dogma”, and we all know how great that one was. Right?

How can someone this goofy be so evil?

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