The Ranger

The Ranger (2018)

Each year, millions visit our national parks. Not everyone gets to leave.

After a run-in with the cops at a punk show goes sideways, Chelsea and her pals flee the city in search of a place to lay low. Running to the security of an old, abandoned family cabin in the woods, they fall under the watchful eye of an overzealous park ranger who holds a secret from Chelsea's past.

Date of release
2018-09-07
TMDB
4.8 / 10 (97)
Runtime
1h 20m
Genres
Horror
Director
Jenn Wexler

Casting

Interesting facts

The Ranger is a 2018 American slasher film written and directed by Jenn Wexler. It stars Chloë Levine as a punk who flees with her friends from the law to hide out at her late uncle's cabin in a national forest, and Jeremy Holm as the titular park ranger who responds in an unhinged manner. Wexler has described the concept of the film as an attempt to "blend the genres of 80s punk movies with 80s slashers". The Ranger received mostly positive reviews from the critics, praised for its style and Wexler's direction.

Production

The film was based on an old, reworked script from Jenn Wexler's college friend Giaco Furino — they both majored in screenwriting. As the director noted, the original screenplay "was more of a straight up body count movie, with the same overall structure of punks going to the woods and a park ranger starting to take them out." The altered story was inspired by punk horror films such as The Return of the Living Dead (1985), as well as the Evil Dea…

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