Kevin Smith's Red State Unseen Original Ending Animated

Kevin Smith knows how to get the most film out of a limited budget, but even he couldn't figure out a feasible solution to his originally planned apocalyptic ending for 2011's Red State. But now Smith and Entertainment Weekly have collaborated on an animated version of that ending.

In the theatrical ending, the Five Points Trinity Church, led by Abin Cooper (Michael Parks), is having a standoff against the ATF, led by Agent Joseph Keenan (John Goodman). As the tension peaks a loud horn is heard and Cooper believes it is the sound signaling the Rapture, but it ends up being kids pulling a prank. In the original version, the sound would not have been a prank. And then, God's wrath is unleashed upon the Earth.

Check out the alternate ending in the video below.

After receiving an online invitation for sex from a mysterious woman (Academy Award winner Melissa Leo*) three teenaged boys head to the town of Cooper's Dell. But instead of enjoying the night of their dreams, the teens are plunged into the nightmarish world of Abin Cooper (Michael Parks), a fundamentalist preacher with a deadly moral agenda. As the boys suffer unthinkable horrors inside the preacher's compound, a military task force is mobilized. With Cooper's Dell teetering between salvation and damnation, the task force's leader (John Goodman) braces for furious battle with Cooper and his heavily armed followers in this fever-pitched action thriller from writer-director Kevin Smith.