Happy.. holidays.. everyone?

[The Curmudgeon]

So the best time of the year is almost upon us. Fuck Christmas and Easter and New Year. The best time of the year is, of course, the 31st October. And we all know what THAT day is, right kids?

Wrong! It's... Jesus Ween!

www.jesusween.com/

Let's see them turn THAT into a Michael Myers movie.

[trashcanman]

"Suggested ways to participate on October 31st:
1) Stay home and put scriptural Christian gifts with a candy in every bag to comes to your day.
2) Go out in groups (friends or church groups). Door to door and give a Christian gift with with or without candy.
3) You don't have to wear a costume. (or wear a positive one if you have to)
4) Pray, Pray, Pray, ....Pray
5) Let your church and Pastors know what you are doing and get others involved"

That stuff is WAY creepier than any slasher flick.
Two words: Red State.



I believe there is a compromise that should make everybody happy, though.


www.zombiejesusday.org/Home.aspx


My church actually celebrated Halloween under the title All-Saints Day Carnival. It was surprisingly pretty cool.

[Quillford]

Well for me it's my anniversary so the only way I will be celebrating will be in a romantic yet spooky themed atmosphere. Wonderful. just what you need to spice up the mood a bunch of prepubescent wankers running up and down your stairs asking for candy every five minutes.
No I don't think so. I shall be dissing both Jesusween and becoming a socialite and taking to the outside world. they can't bug me for sweets if i'm out right? If they do, there are a lot of canals round here - beware halloweeners.
As for this poposterous notion of the 31st being any other "holiday" other than a one filled with scares, fear, shit masks and sweets then I am against it. Go help people the other three hundred or so days a a year. Do religious people have to shit on us every awesome day of the year? REALLY? Jesus ruins everything - it makes me so

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

[trashcanman]

Accept Jesus as your personal zombie saviour, you godless commie! Do it! NAO! Otherwise, you shall share in Nic Cage's fate.

[The Curmudgeon]

OK, where the fuck was I when Red State came out? I'd never even HEARD of it. What IS it, exactly? Hostel style torture porn? Wolf Creek style survivor horror? Or an action movie with a "religion is nuts" theme?

Correction - "CHRISTIAN religion is nuts" theme. Let's see how far this movie would go if they DIDN'T target the white, Christian faith. Let's see someone make a movie where radical Muslims are the nutjob villains. Ain't gonna happen.

[trashcanman]

Kevin Smith released Red State himself outside of the studio system so it got no love in advertising or theatrical release, but it's a can't-miss. It's a film like nothing you've ever seen so I can't really define it by genre. It's got a little bit of survival horror, more action than I ever expected to see in a Smith film, lots of social commentary (of course), and a pretty bleak outlook on the while thing. It's mostly a scary and serious grey-area commentary on fanatical religious cults and the way the government deals with them. It's got less comedy in it than that trailer would imply. It really is a whole new kind of Kevin Smith flick. The actors put on the kind of performances you'd expect from a guy like Tarantino. That preacher was absolutely amazing. He has this, like, 15 minute sermon towards the beginning that is just completely gripping. So convincing and so true to what those kind of people believe I was just floored by it. One of the best performances by an actor I've ever seen. Smith actually sort of empathizes a little with them and really crawls into their heads, even while clearly painting them as depraved, hypocritical, and just plain deluded. Pick it up for sure, especially since you've said you aren't really into the unrealistic dialogue and performances of Smith's past work.