Comedian/filmmaker Carl Rimi talks standup career and ‘iPossessed,’ indie horror movie shot in Florida

Combine comedy and horror and you get Carl Rimi The standup comic pulls double duty as star and co-director of the new hair-raising film iPossessed Deco caught up with Carl at Dania Pointe s Improv to tell us about his dream for scream Carl Rimi during standup set She goes What do you do for a living I m like I m a comedian She s like Oh my God you re a medium ' The audience laughs The sound of laughter gets Carl Rimi hyped Carl Rimi during standup set So I took her home and made love to her cause her dead grandmother requested her to The audience laughs His comedic style is to observe Carl Rimi My parents used to own video store when I was a little kid so I worked VHS tapes I talk about that talk about the adult film section You know whatever get a little spicy Video store customer What s that werewolf movie with E T s mom in it Jamie Kennedy as Randy Meeks The Howling Horror straight ahead The comedian is channeling the same Scream section Carl Rimi as Tad Volo We can wait this out and then we can all get the hell out of here Straight-up horror And the now filmmaker actor is haunting the big screen with iPossessed Carl Rimi It s about these five people who go to this house and it s haunted and the way this house haunts them is by their own dark secrets and their past regrets start creeping up throughout the night So it s more the people that are there it s their possession their demons they re holding in Hence the i in the Possessed ' In the psychological thriller Carl plays a veteran Army ranger with his shirt off Carl Rimi Yeah I m getting a lot for that Like I have my shirt off like three times in there and all my friends are like C mon bro ' Carl Rimi I requested my character Tad to be a menacing figure throughout the film and I think I accomplished that when you see the film That s why my shirt s off It s not like I needed to The audience claps Carl Rimi during standup set Various of you might not know what we re doing here is we re doing a movie tour For a small indie film shot in Florida the actor wants to spread the buzz through a national comedy tour Carl Rimi I think we created kind of a different angle is we re promoting people from comedy to a horror film But no bits about the movie you know I call it like a minute infomercial or a -minute infomercial now get to the product And the product is full of blood and screams Carl Rimi Nobody knows I m a filmmaker and then I go Oh by the way I made a movie And then people are usually like makes confused face and then I m like It s a horror film And people are like Where s the punch line They don t get a punch line For more information on how to check out iPossessed I double dare you to click here