Friday, October 28, 2022

Hello Horror 2022 - Day 28 - The Ranger (2018)

  This movie was neon garbage.  Punk deserves better.

Five young adults head up to a cabin in the woods after assaulting a police officer.  Chelsea (Chloe Levine) inherited the cabin after her uncle was killed there.  The death was covered up by the local ranger (Jeremy Holm) who developed an obsession with Chelsea.  Now that she's returned, he'll stop at nothing to make her his.

The only way this movie works is if you consider it an unintentional comedy.  It wants to be Green Room so badly and doesn't even make it past the bouncer.  The villain is pure camp, the dialogue is lame, the kills are mostly off-screen (except for the Black kid.  Hmmm.) and everything in it has been done before and more competently.  Hell, even Tourist Trap did a better job establishing dread.  At least he had creepy-ass mannequins.  This guy just has a wolf pelt and a lot of free time on his hands.  If your movie could have been fixed by someone getting a Netflix account, you should rewrite your script.

It's on Shudder.  Avoid.

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