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Movie Info

Released from prison, a man (Dermot Mulroney) returns home to an unsatisfied wife (Natasha Lyonne). He moves to Oregon to help his brother on a ranch, where he meets a mad scientist and a con artist.

Rating:

R (Sexual References|Disturbing Gory Violence|Brief Nudity|Strong Language)
Genre:

comedy, drama, horror
Original Language:

English
Director:

Calvin Reeder
Producer:

Nate Bolotin, Christo Dimassis, Carl W. Lucas, James Lejsek
Writer:

Calvin Reeder
Release Date (Streaming):

Jul 10, 2016
Runtime:

1h 39m
Production Co:

Also Known As Pictures, Brooklyn Reptyle Productions

Cast & Crew

Dermot Mulroney
The Rambler

Lindsay Pulsipher
The Girl

Natasha Lyonne
Cheryl

James Cady
The Scientist

Paul Blott
Dale

Christopher Dempsey
Bob

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News & Interviews for The Rambler

Critics Consensus: The Internship Could Use Some Work

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Critic Reviews for The Rambler

All Critics (12) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (4) | Rotten (8)

Misguided exercise in genre fetishism marks a forgettable misfire.

June 19, 2013 | Full Review…

Justin Lowe
Hollywood Reporter
What all of this means is, frankly, nothing. But it's a handsome nothing, at least until you get sick of the screaming.

June 13, 2013 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…

Amy Nicholson
Los Angeles Times
Foreboding images abound - crawling lizards, mysterious lights in the sky, a funereal assembly populated by grotesques - along with occasional ambient droning on the soundtrack and moments of mild humor and raw gore. Do the tableaus add up? Not really.

June 7, 2013 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…

Andy Webster
New York Times
The kind of movie where more effort seems to have gone into the cast's wardrobe than their dialogue.

June 4, 2013 | Full Review…

Steve Erickson
Village Voice
Sinister, comical, aggravating, and audacious, Calvin Lee Reeder's film is nothing short of an affront.

June 4, 2013 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

Drew Hunt
Slant Magazine
Writer-director Calvin Lee Reeder's randomly splattering take on the back-country-road movie.

February 1, 2013

Rob Nelson
Variety
More proof that horror as a genre has been hedged out of midnight movie programming in favor of meandering strangeness.

August 22, 2019 | Full Review…

Nicholas Bell
IONCINEMA.com
The Rambler is missing that quality, and as a result it suffers immensely. It's a head-scratcher of a film, but only in that it'll have you wondering how it got made in the first place.

June 29, 2019 | Rating: 4/10 | Full Review…

C.J. Prince
Way Too Indie
I can't say I understand Calvin Lee Reeder's intentions concerning The Rambler, but since there's plenty of room for interpretation, I found my own meaning amongst this wacky mess of mummies and red wine.

June 19, 2013 | Rating: 6/10 | Full Review…

Matt Donato
We Got This Covered
Dermot Mulroney's 'Man with No Name' drifter is all too appropriately at the centre of offbeat auteur Calvin Reeder's 'Film with No Point', The Rambler.

June 11, 2013 | Full Review…

Simon Foster
Screen-Space
Feels like a distant cousin to the new Maniac remake: horror stories told from inside the mind of a calm, cool lunatic.

March 18, 2013 | Full Review…

Scott Weinberg
FEARnet
A mixture of unhinged brilliance, idiocy, unsettling confusion, and a whole lot of chaos.

February 3, 2013 | Rating: B | Full Review…

Chase Whale
ScreenAnarchy

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Audience Reviews for The Rambler

Jun 16, 2013

A nameless man is released from prison and hitchhikes across the West heading for a job at his brother's ranch, meeting a mummy-collecting professor who records people's dreams on VHS tape and other insane weirdos along the way. This is going to be marketed as a horror movie but you should go in looking at it as a black comedy; it's got the twisted humor of your sickest nightmares.

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