RED STATE: NOT YOUR AVERAGE "HORROR" MOVIE 

Well isn't this an unexpected present from director Kevin Smith. From the previews, this movie looks like one of those cheap, cheesy horror movies, but it is so much more than that.It begins with a simple redneck type tale of three teenage boys who think they have a willing sexual participant in an older more experienced woman who they go to meet up with one night. What they don't know, is that it is a set up orchestrated by the local right wing hard-core fundamentalist Christian sect. Once they are brought to the

 compound for their "redemption", does the movie truly turn into a horror movie.It is fast-paced, interesting, and thoroughly watchable. Melissa Leo does an excellent job as the leader's wife and Michael Parks is flawless as the charismatic leader of this sect. Watching him in this role is almost hypnotic. A truly surprising, disturbing and thoroughly enjoyable film.