Red State (2011) on Netflix
Jarod, Travis and Billy-Ray answer an online invitation for group sex from a woman named Sarah. Drugged beer leaves them trapped in a church led by Pastor Abin Cooper.
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- Rotten Tomatoes61%
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Plot summary
The teenager Jarod invites his best friends Travis and Billy-Ray to have a foursome with a thirty-eight year-old woman. While driving to meet the woman, Travis hit a car parked on the road. When they meet the woman, she gives spiked beer to them and they pass out. When the three friends wake up, they find that they are trapped in the fundamentalist Five Points Trinity Church of the infamous Pastor Abin Cooper and that they will be killed. Meanwhile the church is under siege by ATF agents led by Agent Joseph Keenan that have been ordered to destroy the terrorist cell. Will the teenagers be saved by the agents of the law enforcement agency?
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Red State (2011)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Kevin Smith said Red State was inspired by pastor Fred Phelps and the Waco siege, describing the fictional villain as taking a Phelps-like point of view and position to the absolute extreme, though not modeled on Phelps himself.
- Kevin Smith delayed filming Red State for a year partly because of his own superstition that he would die after making his tenth movie, and he did not want an "unpleasant, nasty" film to be his last.
- Kevin Smith announced he would auction Red State's distribution rights to buyers at its Sundance premiere, then revealed onstage that the auction was a ploy and he would self-distribute the film himself as a touring roadshow starting at Radio City Music Hall.
- The real Westboro Baptist Church protested Red State's premiere at the Sundance Film Festival because parts of the film were modeled after the church's founder and members.
