Red State, the 10th film by cult writer/director Kevin Smith (Clerks, Dogma, Chasing Amy) distributed in ANZ by Curious Film opened in Australia this week.

The thriller vehicle for lead actor John Goodman is based on a story of three teenagers in middle America responding to an older woman's online invitation for sex. Their schoolboy fantasies then turn sinister when Christian extremists hold them captive in a compound.
 
Curious Film acquired the distribution rights to Red State for the territory after its premiere at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. Controversial from the outset, the film has polarised audiences and critics with is take on the christian fundamentalist right.
 
More political allegory and satire than the horror category in which it is billed, Curious Film's Michael Wrenn said it was an adrenaline ride of a film that built like a roller coaster.
"It also puts 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," he said.

Red State is the fifth film acquired by Curious this year and its most ambitious to date. Another title from the 2011 Curious cache, Norwegian Wood, has recieved broad coverage in the press and has been well reviewed across the country.