In the next Star Trek film slated for 2011, Leonard Nimoy's intrepid Spock, again, travels back in time this time to warn the crew of the Starship Voyager of the dangers of the Bad Lands, thus sparing them their encounter with the Caretaker and thus sparing us the tedium of Ethan Phillips' Neelix, the Jar-Jar Binks of the Star Trek universe. I can dream, can't I? It is Ethan Phillips that stars along Jamie Alexander and Brian McNamara in David Benullo's Hallowed Ground, an insufferable exercise in rolled out horror clichés. Please, Ethan, this is what we get from an MFA from Cornell? Hallowed Ground, director David Benullo's second foray into directing since his nearly impossible to track down and deeply creepy (not in a good way creepy) incest fantasy, Cupid, left me with a few questions. Where in Kansas does corn grow on vines? How does one fall from a walk on role in I Know Who Killed Me to a starring role in Hallowed Ground (McNamara)? And how does crap like this get made in the first place? Does the pitch—or pitchfork— for an abortion like this go something like, "Yes, it's Children of the Corn meets Dark Night of the Scarecrow, you know a dense, indecipherable, mish-mash of every horror or slasher film made in the last thirty years." Who thought this was a good idea? At least Cupid had the paraphilic angle (I am truly praying Mr. Benullo doesn't have sisters), Hallowed, however, is early (pre-sobriety) Stephen King vomited up as uninspired horror, though a truly inspired and fervidly presented middle finger to rural, agricultural and Christian Americans. I don't know the man, however, my guess is he's a run-of-the-mill USC or NYU film school type, a typical, unthinking, and blinkered, North Easterner that has never spent time in the Midwest nor interacted with the people of rural America he so crudely portrays. It's a strange kind of bigotry. I'm not personally a religious man, but I find the way Christians are portrayed in this film deeply offensive. Would Mr. Benullo portray Muslim Americans in this kind of light? Unlikely. So that's it. Red state America is populated by mullet sporting, human sacrificing, scarecrow worshipping, Talaxians that grow mutant corn which grows on killer vines. Stay away from this garbage.