"Each year, millions visit our national parks. Not everyone gets to leave." Jenn Wexler's The Ranger has been creating some genre buzz on its festival circuit (in case you missed them, read Jonathan James' Fantasia interview with co-stars Chloe Levine and Jeremy Holm and Patrick Bromley's Cinepocalypse review), and soon it could be coming to a city near you, as theatrical release dates for New York City and Los Angeles have now been revealed, along with a tense new clip.
The Ranger will be released theatrically at New York's IFC Center on August 17th, followed by a September 7th release at Los Angeles' Laemmle Music Hall. Below, we have additional details on the new slasher film from Glass Eye Pix and Hood River Entertainment, as well as a new clip:
"After a run-in with the cops at a punk show goes sideways, Chelsea (Chloe Levine, THE TRANSFIGURATION) and her pals flee the city in search of a place to lay low. Running to the security of Chelsea's old, abandoned family cabin in the woods, they fall under the watchful eye of an overzealous park ranger (Jeremy Holm, HOUSE OF CARDS) who holds a secret from Chelsea's past. Set to the beat of a killer punk soundtrack (FANG, The Avengers, The Grim, Rotten UK and more) and presented in eye-popping neon colors, Jenn Wexler's debut offers a modern take on survivalist horror that both celebrates and subverts the genre’s tropes—with equal parts humor, glitter and gore.
THE RANGER is the directorial debut from Jenn Wexler, producer of Ana Asensio's 2017 SXSW Competition Winner MOST BEAUTIFUL ISLAND, Robert Mockler's LIKE ME (2017), and Mickey Keating's PSYCHOPATHS (2017) & DARLING (2016). THE RANGER world premiered at SXSW 2018, was in official selection for the innagural What The Fest!?, recently played the Fantasia International Film Festival, and is set to open London's FrightFest.
The film is co-written by Giaco Furino and Wexler, who also produced along with horror veteran Larry Fessenden, Heather Buckley, Ashleigh Snead, and Andrew van den Houten. THE RANGER is produced by Glass Eye Pix and Hood River Entertainment."
Raised on a steady diet of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books and Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Derek has been fascinated with fear since he first saw ForeverWare being used on an episode of Eerie, Indiana.
When he’s not writing about horror as the Senior News Reporter for Daily Dead, Derek can be found daydreaming about the Santa Carla Boardwalk from The Lost Boys or reading Stephen King and Brian Keene novels.
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