It's a charming if conspicuously unfinished film, a half-riotous, half-idiotic send-up of the teen horror genre with a vaguely hip political twist.

For all its boisterous profanity and splattery violence, the film is more of a weary sigh than a sputtering volley of indignation.

A.O. Scott

The New York Times

Red State is gloriously unencumbered by fidelity to genre conventions, which lends it a thrilling element of unpredictability even when the action frequently grows shrill and heavy-handed.

Nathan Rabin

The A.V. Club