Review of The Badlanders

" . . . from everyone else," a somewhat obtuse guy named "Mac" laments as the Reality of the "Red State" Curse finally dawns upon the slow-moving gears of his brain during THE BADLANDERS (43:25). As anyone familiar with American Geography 101 well knows, the USA's Red States are comprised mostly of such "badlands" as deserts, swamps, tundra, scrub brush, gullies, dry lake beds, gulches, rocky outcroppings, flood plains, dust bowls, waste lands, land-fills, and condemned "Super Fund" clean-up sites. These badlands are populated by scorpions, fire ants, rattlesnakes, mosquitos, gila-monsters, copperheads, horse flies, water moccasins, boll weevils, pythons, gators, plague-carrying rodents, rabid bats, feral hogs, big head carp, deadly ticks, mad cow prions, pond scum perils, devilish viruses, cockroaches, bed bugs, tape worms, brain-eating bacteria, and venomous spiders. As THE BADLANDERS realistically illustrates, human Red State residents pose the greatest threat of all to We True Blue Loyal Patriotic Normal Americans. Even the so-called Red State "law men" are corrupt, back-stabbing assassins, THE BADLANDERS reveals. Mac has no one to blame but his polluted gene pool for his sad predicament.