Red State wraps AND screens!

Click on the above image for the full size version, as posted on Silent Bob Speaks

So as you may remember, back in August we exclusively dropped a couple of details about Kevin Smith’s new project – the horror film “Red State”. Hearing it straight from the horses mouth, I’m still pretty chuffed that I got the spelling of Abin Cooper correct.

Anyway, as a Halloween treat, Smith dropped the teaser poster on his Twitter feed, with the above-linked post to his blog.

Here’s the skinny. Wrap party was held two days after principle photography was in the can, with a fine cut (complete with credits) screened at Smith’s house in LA for around two hundred cast and crew. Efficiency much? Shot on the appropriately-named RED camera system (Adrian and I have done films on RED and yes, it is the camera of the lower-budget Gods) for around $4M dollars, independently financed, and the first project of the new production company “The Harvey Boys” with ex-Miramaxer Jon Gordon producing, Red State promises to be a massive departure for the writer/director, and personally that’s something I’m excited about. With a cast including Michael Parks and John Goodman, you can be certain Smith isn’t going for your standard horror flick.

While the current plan is to submit the film to Sundance for competition, we’ll keep you posted with details about Red State, while leaving you with the teaser poster (nicknamed as “the Holy Ghost”), lovingly released in a size you can slap up as your desktop wallpaper. Interesting note: the teaser image wasn’t done by anyone from a marketing department. Producer Jon Gordon’s assistant Melissa Bloom is credited for the striking image you see above (with a little help from Smith’s all-round web/tech associate Ming Chen). Within a week of wrapping the film, it’s screened and a teaser poster is released. Talk about moving quickly!

So with that, we’ve only got one question for Smith right now…

How long till the first trailer?