Curious Film presents Kevin Smith’s latest – a sexual, political, religious thriller ‘Red State’
From cult writer/director Kevin Smith (Clerks, Dogma) comes his tenth film, ‘Red State’, distributed in Australia by Curious.
‘Red State’ opened in Australian cinemas this week and is an intense thriller hell-bent on leaving audiences feeling uncomfortable, tense, dazed and never knowing what’s going to happen next.
In Middle America, three teenagers respond to an older woman’s online invitation for sex, but their schoolboy fantasies turn sinister when Christian extremists hold them captive in a compound known as the Five Points Church.
Curious Film acquired the distribution rights to ‘Red State’ for Australia and New Zealand after it premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. Controversial from the outset, the film has divided audiences and critics with is take on America’s Christian fundamentalist right.
Billed as a horror film, ‘Red State’ is as much political allegory and satire.
Curious Film’s Michael Wrenn says: “Red State is an adrenaline ride of a film that builds like a rollercoaster while putting a magnifying glass to American views on the religion of the Far Right, oppression, The Tea Party and various other hand grenades aimed at moral conservatives who hold American media in a vice-like grip.”
Smith is the same director between cult films ‘Clerks’, ‘Mallrats’, ‘Chasing Amy’ and ‘Dogma’.
‘Red State’ is now screening nationally in selected cinemas across Australia. It is the fifth film acquired by Curious this year and its biggest to date. Curious has also secured the distribution rights to documentaries ‘Black Power Mix Tapes’, and ‘Jiro Dreams of Sushi’; and feature films ‘Norwegian Wood’ and ‘Toomelah’.