Comments on: Kevin Smith To Shoot Horror Movie ‘Tusk’ In October, Michael Parks & Justin Long To Star https://staging2.theplaylist.net/kevin-smith-to-shoot-horror-movie-tusk-in-october-michael-parks-justin-long-to-star-20130925/ Fri, 13 May 2016 08:57:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Daniel https://staging2.theplaylist.net/kevin-smith-to-shoot-horror-movie-tusk-in-october-michael-parks-justin-long-to-star-20130925/#comment-44476 Fri, 13 May 2016 08:57:55 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2013/more/uncategorized/kevin-smith-to-shoot-horror-movie-tusk-in-october-michael-parks-justin-long-to-star-93290/#comment-44476 Goddammit, didn't this guy say he was retiring or something when he was promoting Red State?

]]> By: JUJITSU https://staging2.theplaylist.net/kevin-smith-to-shoot-horror-movie-tusk-in-october-michael-parks-justin-long-to-star-20130925/#comment-44477 Fri, 13 May 2016 08:57:55 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2013/more/uncategorized/kevin-smith-to-shoot-horror-movie-tusk-in-october-michael-parks-justin-long-to-star-93290/#comment-44477 "Sites like The Playlist exist for many reasons: but arguably, the most pressing of these reasons is so that the people who write for them can read and listen to the verbal outpourings of Kevin Smith and reduce them to something that normal civilians can absorb, consider and move on in less time than it would take to actually interface with Smith."

You know, I've been thinking that we need something else that can do that with The Playlist's articles.

]]> By: Daniel https://staging2.theplaylist.net/kevin-smith-to-shoot-horror-movie-tusk-in-october-michael-parks-justin-long-to-star-20130925/#comment-44478 Fri, 13 May 2016 08:57:55 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2013/more/uncategorized/kevin-smith-to-shoot-horror-movie-tusk-in-october-michael-parks-justin-long-to-star-93290/#comment-44478 Great news. I saw Red State in LA when Smith had it on tour, and was hugely surprised by it. I had been looking forward to seeing him speak — the guy is as funny as any stand up comedian when he's fielding questions onstage — but I wasn't really looking forward to the film itself, as Smith had never really made anything that worked. I appreciated his cult following, as there's an awful lot of good will behind his writing, and some of the jokes are pretty funny, but the execution and staging of any given scene is so painfully, awkwardly unprofessional, that it kills nearly every positive intention he has as a storyteller.

But Red State was something totally different; entirely focused on craft and tone, packed with excellent acting (especially by Parks) and seriously off-putting imagery, I felt it was one of the freshest, best-made indie horror pictures I've seen in years. By letting go of his 'style,' he seems suddenly to be having real, electric fun, and that intensity translates directly to the screen with jumpy unpredictability. Very happy to hear that he's found inspiration in this; I've always liked him in terms of his public personality, and respected what he's done for indie film — but Red State was the first time I've seen him as a truly inspired filmmaker.

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