New Poster for Kevin Smith's RED STATE features The Father

Last week director Kevin Smith released the first character poster, title The Virgin, for his new horror thriller Red State, set to premiere at The Sundance Film Festival in 2011. The new poster introduces us to the father in the story, which follows a group of kids who encounters a crazed preacher (based on Fred Phelps, founder of the Westboro Baptist Church) who gives a whole new meaning to the term “extreme fundamentalism."

I'm really looking forward to seeing this film up at Sundance.

Smith is looking to do some good with the releasing of these Red State posters by raising money for a Haitian charity that will save lives. Ya gotta love Smith for wanting to do some good in the world.

Here are a few words directly from the Kevin Smith camp:

If you’re a movie website or film journalist and you want to feature this poster or use it in a story, don’t be a detail-thin dick.

Be sure to tell people WHY the poster was released: because http://gfbrobot.com/ bid $2000 to Mitch Albom’s www.havefaithhaiti.org in less than 30 minutes.

If you also include the link for Mitch’s Haitian charity in your story/article, you’re not only being a thorough journalist, you’re also helping to save actual lives – lives whose progress you’ll be able to trace via www.havefaithhaiti.org

It only takes a few seconds longer to provide all available facts in any story.

Including THIS fact can help save a child’s life.