“You know what those ‘Clerks’ movies look like,” Smith said. John Goodman and new Oscar-winner Melissa Leo co-star.
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Starring Michael Parks - from “Grindhouse” and the “Kill Bill” movies - the new movie is about a fictitious small-town preacher named Abin Cooper and his reign of terror. It’s not enough to just sit there and throw a movie up and be like, ‘Watch it and be entertained and leave.’ Sometimes, the more personal you go, the better experience you’re gonna have.” “It is kind of about showmanship,” he said. The roadshow - which features a Q&A with Smith and a screening of “Red State” seven months ahead of its theatrical release - will play its only Ohio date on March 14 in Springfield, of all places, at Kuss Auditorium. Smith, the writer and director who developed an instant cult following back in the ’90s with his very first film, “Clerks,” is personally taking his first foray into horror, “Red State,” on tour. “If you want to truly defang a monster, you just put a picture up of the monster.”
“In a world where it does you no good to stand across from them and yell your fool head off,” filmmaker Kevin Smith explained recently, “it felt like my course of action was, ‘Just make a horror movie about the guy.’ Being the first one to the office fax machine and handling the latest communique from the Westboro Baptist Church is sort of like picking up the phone and hearing heavy breathing on the other end - or looking out your cabin window at summer camp and seeing Jason Voorhees in his hockey mask peering back.
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