If you’re familiar with Kevin Smith’s original plans for Red State, you’ll know that the filmmaker intended on an apocalyptic ending for the 2011 horror, with the trumpets heard in the final version of the movie actually signalling the beginning of the Rapture.
However, working on a budget of just $4 million, Smith was unable to realise his ambitions, but we can now get a glimpse of what he had in store thanks to Entertainment Weekly’s ‘Scene Unseen’, which provides an animated version of the original ending, complete with commentary from Smith. Check it out here…
Would you have liked to see this ending for Red State? Let us know in the comments below…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ONsp_bmDYXc&list=PL18yMRIfoszFLSgML6ddazw180SXMvMz5
Originally published March 29, 2015. Updated April 14, 2018.
