[Neever]

How about red standing for the fear of the communist threat in the 20th Century?

I haven't seen the film, but if the little village and the scary creatures engage each other, it might also suggest that confrontation, war, disease, are all an unavoidable aspect of life: that, no matter how much we try to escape our mortality, death finds us.

You have a good deal of wiggle room with this, which is precisely what the director wants to convey to you. In the process, he wants to scare you to death.

I think the red states thing is a bit of a stretch, unless there are numerous lines in the movie that suggest otherwise.

I'm going to see the movie and judge for myself.

[hispanarepublicana]

haven't seen the film, but if the little village and the scary creatures engage each other,

I have a steak dinner riding on a bet that says we'll never actually see the creatures on screen in full in the movie. I made the bet after seeing the trailer. That's how I would have made the movie, anyway. What is in our imaginations as to "what's in the woods" is much scarier than anything M. Night could conjure, because fear is subjective.