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Calvin Reeder’s ‘The Rambler’ Becoming a Feature!

Published

13 years ago

January 19, 2011

During our recent interview with director Calvin Reeder to discuss his latest film The Oregonian (premiering at Sundance this week), the filmmaker spilled a few general details about his hoped-for next project, a feature version of his earlier short film The Rambler. Reeder hopes to gain some momentum following Sundance in order to raise needed funding for the movie, which concerns a young drifter who goes on a bizarre odyssey through the Pacific Northwest. The short was chilling and fantastic, so here’s hoping he acquires the resources he needs to expand it to feature-length. So far he already has buy-in from distributor Anchor Bay, but needs further capital to make the project a reality.
“They want to come in and help,” said Reeder of Anchor Bay’s involvement. “They’ve only been able to provide some of the funding or whatever, but we can’t seem to find the rest of it just yet…it’s not really an expanding of the short, but a lot of those parts are in it. It just kind of starts with The Rambler getting out of jail, and he kind of follows this somewhat episodic and sometimes very psychedelic journey. [Laughs] It’s hard to explain, just like everything else [of mine] I guess.”

Reeder has actually been attempting to get the project off the ground for the last two years, but decided to shoot The Oregonian – a cheaper, less time-intensive project – instead when the money didn’t come through.

“It just was going really bad. So I just changed gears and involved some of the people that I wanted to make `The Rambler’ with for something that would be less money, and we could do in less days,” he told me. “[‘The Rambler’ is] kind of elaborate and would have been expensive and would have taken a lot of people’s time.”

We’ll keep you posted if and when the project finally starts coming together.

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Daniel Roebuck Has Joined the Cast of ‘Terrifier 3’! [Exclusive]

Published

1 week ago

April 12, 2024

Alex DiVincenzo

Daniel Roebuck has been cast as Santa Claus in Terrifier 3, Bloody Disgusting can exclusively report.

Writer-director Damien Leone is currently wrapping production on the highly-anticipated sequel, in which Art the Clown unleashes chaos on the unsuspecting residents of Miles County as they peacefully drift off to sleep on Christmas Eve.

“I’ve been holding this secret for a long time!” Roebuck tells Bloody Disgusting. “I’ve been really excited about it. I’m actually entering into the movies that I watch. It’s extraordinary. This is Terrifier bigger, badder, best.”

Roebuck appears in Terrifier 3 alongside returning cast members David Howard Thornton, Lauren LaVera, Samantha Scaffidi, Elliot Fullam, and AEW superstar Chris Jericho.

No stranger to iconic horror properties, Roebuck has squared off against Michael Myers in Rob Zombie’s Halloween II, played The Count in Zombie’s The Munsters, succumbed to The Tall Man’s sphere in Phantasm: Ravager, and investigated death in Final Destination.

A distinguished character actor with over 250 credits, Roebuck has also appeared in The Devil’s Rejects, 3 from Hell, Bubba Ho-Tep, John Dies at the End, The Fugitive, Lost, Agent Cody Banks, and The Man in the High Castle. Incidentally, he’s also playing Santa in the family drama Saint Nick of Bethlehem, due out later this year.

Terrifier 3 will be released in theaters nationwide later this year via Cineverse and Bloody Disgusting in conjunction with our partner on Terrifier 2, Iconic Events Releasing.

Terrifier 3 comes courtesy of Dark Age Cinema Productions. Phil Falcone Produces with Lisa Falcone acting as Executive Producer. Co-producers include Mike Leavy, Jason Leavy, George Steuber, and Steve Della Salla. Brad Miska, Brandon Hill, and Erick Opeka Executive Produce for Cineverse. Matthew Helderman and Luke Taylor also Executive Produce.