ComingSoon.net recently had a chat with Keving Smith about Red State; a film is about renegade fundamentalists from the midwest. The following is an except from the interview:
We’re still looking for some cash for it ’cause it’s not a really commercial film at all. It’s very bleak and very dark, and there’s no one to root for in the movie, so it’s a real film festival type of film, but it’s not the kind of movie you can take into multiplexes and do a bunch of business with unless it becomes a water cooler type of movie where people start talking about it. So we’ve had trouble finding financing for it, but hopefully that’ll come together soon. Script’s all done. We want to make it for like $5 million in the Midwest and do it with a bunch of unknowns and see what happens. So I mean none of those things add up to people rushing to you with a check. No one’s rushing to give us money for it.”
“It is definitely a 180 from everything else we’ve done including ‘Zack and Miri’ but at the same time, it’s not like a splatter film, it’s not like slasher balls-to-the-wall gore, it’s more unsettling and disturbing type of horror,” he explained when asked about the direction he plans on taking things in his first horror outing.
A film about home grown terrorizers is a great idea for a horror film. Instead of just one bad guy – have a cult set out on the work of apocalyptic doom! The film may not have anything to do with the apocalypse, and will probably not play out this way – but it’s fun to day dream.
I think that horror films that are “very bleak and very dark” are very right. Too many horror films have happy endings. We need more films that stack woe on top of woe, and I think it’s bitchin’ that Smith wants to take this route.
I would welcome this foray into horror, and hope the film comes to fruition shortly. If any of our readers have an extra 5 million, consider becoming a producer so this can happen stat.
For those of you that are die hard horror fans – what do you think of this news? Are you interested in seeing Smith do a horror film, and what do you think of his plans thus far?
