Despite signing up for hockey hokum Hit Somebody starring Seann William Scott, director Kevin Smith has confirmed that he’ll finally helm horror flick Red State first this July.
The film, which he describes as “so bleak that it makes The Dark Knight look like Strawberry Shortcake” has been languishing in development hell for a while now.
He added:
“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.”
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