Name: The Ranger
Genre: Horror
Released: 2018-03-16T05:27:22-07:00
Rating: 76

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Movie Info

A group of Punk-styled friends, fueled by a hallucinogenic drug called Echo, runs afoul of the law and an unhinged park ranger.

Genre:

horror
Original Language:

English
Director:

Jenn Wexler
Producer:

Heather Buckley, Larry Fessenden, Ashleigh Snead, Andrew van den Houten, Jenn Wexler
Writer:

Giaco Furino, Jenn Wexler
Release Date (Theaters):

Sep 7, 2018 limited
Release Date (Streaming):

Sep 24, 2019
Runtime:

1h 20m
Production Co:

Glass Eye Pix, Hood River Entertainment

Cast & Crew

Chloe Levine
Chelsea

Jeremy Holm
The Ranger

Granit Lahu
Garth

Jeremy Pope
Jerk

Bubba Weiler
Abe

Amanda Grace Benitez
Amber

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Critic Reviews for The Ranger

All Critics (37) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (28) | Rotten (9)

Ultimately "The Ranger" promises more than it delivers.

September 6, 2018 | Full Review…

Kimber Myers
Los Angeles Times
Wexler has interpreted her influences thoughtfully and inverted them cleverly. It's the smart kind of dumb fun.

August 17, 2018 | Rating: B | Full Review…

Katie Rife
AV Club
Couldn't be more insipid.

August 15, 2018 | Full Review…

Kristen Yoonsoo Kim
Village Voice
Punk rockers are led as lambs to the slaughter in yet another homage to '80s slasher movies.

March 27, 2018 | Full Review…

Joe Leydon
Variety
Pays its respects to the storied history of iconic slashers, only to serve more as a disappointing homage to the '80s without offering anything new.

February 5, 2021 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Patrick Cavanaugh
The Wolfman Cometh
The Ranger is like many other films, but it definitely has a character all of its own and is very entertaining. I thought it might be a fun-but-standard slasher, and I'm glad to say there was lots more to it than that.

February 2, 2021 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Alix Turner
Ready Steady Cut
The Ranger is a fun, bloody romp in the woods that will please slasher and punk fans alike. It's a simple film, but highly enjoyable.

April 11, 2020 | Rating: 4.5/5 | Full Review…

Emilie Black
Cinema Crazed
As a modern slasher, The Ranger is gory, witty, unpredictable, and fresh.

September 30, 2019 | Rating: 8/10 | Full Review…

Joey Keogh
Wicked Horror
The Ranger is a roundhouse kick of a slasher film with a killer soundtrack, relatable characters and a decent chunk of bloody gore.

August 8, 2019 | Rating: 9/10 | Full Review…

Tracy Allen
PopHorror.com
The problem is...I actually found myself siding with the murderous Ranger for most of the movie.

July 15, 2019 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…

Terry Mesnard
Gayly Dreadful
A short, sharp and insanely fun new entry into the slasher canon, offering up one of the genre's best antagonists in years.

June 5, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Ben Robins
HeyUGuys
The Ranger is in touch with nature in a very psychotic way, and plays off of Chelsea's fish out of water persona in the big city.

May 16, 2019 | Full Review…

Carolyn Mauricette
View From The Dark

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Audience Reviews for The Ranger

Aug 10, 2020

Didn't commit to making the hate-able characters deaths feel well-deserved or cathartic, yet simultaneously didn't make any of the other characters actually likeable. Still, The Ranger is at least not one of those "dime-a-dozen" sort of movies, there's enough different here to keep me invested for the length of the movie.

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