Red State always sounded like a very different sort of film for Kevin Smith, and if this trailer is anything to go by, it really will be a major departure for the director. Tense, eerie and promising plenty of horror, it suggests it may live up to Smith’s promise that it’s “so bleak that it makes The Dark Knight look like Strawberry Shortcake”. The trailer was released as part of Smith’s Smodcast, but you can watch it by clicking below. The film itself sees a group of misfits encountering an extreme fundametalist church, and getting way more than they bargained for when they come across the hate-filled Abin Cooper. It should be in cinemas in the spring.