Josh Ruben

But when thinking about what movie to compare to Darrell's book, um, I landed on a bit of an underappreciated horror comedy called Werewolves Within.

It came out back in 2021, and it's directed by Josh Ruben.

In the movie, a snowstorm traps town residents together inside the local inn, where newly arrived forest ranger Finn and postal worker Cecily must try to keep the peace and uncover the truth behind a mysterious creature that has begun terrorizing the community.

And the movie is actually based on the classic party and tabletop game Werewolf, um, more commonly called Mafia in the United States, where someone in your party is the werewolf and everyone else has to figure out who it is.

Yeah

... by Josh Ruben, who's very funny.

Um, kind of an entertaining one.

No, Josh?

Oh, no.

Leave Josh Ruben alone.

Uh, hmm.

Vampire Princess Me Fist You.

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And it's Zach, Brennan, and Josh Ruben.

Ugh.

And they all just do, and it's-

It, it's like the same thing with like Darkman.

Like, I r- an article recently, if I remember correctly, said Josh Ruben's, uh, comedian and filmmaker who did, um, Scare Me, um, he's the killer in A Wounded Fawn.

Um, really, really funny guy on Dropout.

He has a admiration for Darkman, and he's talking about wanting to do a version of it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

A- a- again, Josh, if, if Josh Ruben wants to do it, like yeah, sure.

Uh, Ruben, I, I think Ruben would, I think Ruben's would be perfect.

But we go back to season one, like really amazing guest stars.

Like season one, you had Josh Ruben.

Season two-

Mm-hmm

You know, there was a couple, uh, actors from Room 104 who we'd both worked with before who we brought back again.

They're friends.

Like Josh Ruben was someone who Mark and I were just fans of as a human being.

I just think he's one of the funniest people alive and, um, so smart and such a great filmmaker.

Sure, sure.

Then you have Werewolves Within by Josh Ruben, which is a really fun little movie.

But that-

It doesn't to me count

And I ended up getting a lot of work in comedy and met a lot of comedic writer, actor, directors.

And then what I call the Jordan Peele effect happened, where all of them started realizing, "Well, I can't get my comedies made, but if I make it a horror movie, all of a sudden now we have a shot of making our movie." And so that started with this movie called Clara's Ghost that was directed by Brady Elliott, and that was produced by Irony Point that produced Scare Me, and they reached out to me about that, and that's how I met Josh Ruben.

And after that, when-- once the pandemic hit, Scare Me was released during the pandemic, so coming out of it, I started getting a lot of offers for horror comedies or horror adjacent films, and I did a couple for Shudder, uh, Who Invited Them?, Blood Relatives, and then I ended up doing Shelby Oaks, which was probably my biggest film to date.

Yeah.

Uh-oh.

Yeah.

Um, yeah, I'm, well, I'm currently working on Josh Ruben's new movie.

I think I can say that.