Red State (Movie)

Red State is a 2011 American independent horror film written and directed by Kevin Smith with characters inspired by the likes of the Westboro Baptist Church and their Pastor Fred Phelps. The film stars Michael Parks, John Goodman, Melissa Leo and Stephen Root.
For months, Smith promised that the rights to the film would be auctioned off to a distributor at a controversial event to be held after its premiere at the Sundance film festival, but instead Smith had to purchase the film himself which, according to analysts, "might have been a difficult sale for any distributor." Smith plans to self-distribute the picture "under the Smodcast Pictures Banner" with a traveling show in select cities, before officially releasing the movie on October 19th in 2011. Kevin Smith listed Mel Gibson as his inspiration for how he planned to distribute this movie, citing Gibson's The Passion of the Christ as an example of a successfully self-distributed movie.

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