Death Ride
Death Ride
R | 08 August 2006 (USA)
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An American photographer has an affair with a mysterious woman (Yoshikawa), which leads him into a confrontation with the occult.

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GarnettTeenage The film was still a fun one that will make you laugh and have you leaving the theater feeling like you just stole something valuable and got away with it.
Twilightfa Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.
Stephanie There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes
Wyatt There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.
Claudio Carvalho The photographer Greg Ross (Rand Gamble) has an argument with his wife Amanda (Laura Putney) about his affair with the Japanese model Yumi (Hinano Yoshikawa) and he accidentally kills her. He decides to get rid off Amanda's body dumping it in the Black Lake. While driving in a road during the night, Greg recalls moments of his relationship with Amanda and Yumi and is haunted by their ghosts, driving him insane with a tragic conclusion.The feature "Death Ride" is a long and boring journey to insanity through the guilty complex of a character that becomes delusional, blending reality and imagination. The eerie story could be a good short, but the director used a slow pace to make the movie last 84 minutes running time; as the consequence, I found it too long and repetitive, apparently going nowhere for a long time. In addition, the accent of Hinano Yoshikawa is terrible. My vote is three.Title (Brazil): "De Carona Com a Morte" ("Riding with Death")
zarul_III Agreed to what alecsz99 said.The movie is the worst i have ever imagined.First time in my life that i felt like doing something really stupid by watching it from the very beginning.It's like watching a meaningless drama,with no motive. And the arrangement of the plots is very disappointing.Yet,interesting or not,is determined by individual opinion,as this is issue of subjective thing.One may like this movie,but not me.Never ever.I'll die before i can say this movie is good.Watching this movie is a mistake.But the bigger mistake is to buy the DVD of that film,unless you are very rich,so you don't know what to do with the rest of the money,then you can buy it.Although there is a slow movement and decrease in the film making industry,we should realize that the film's industry is not that desperate as it seems to be by producing such a low quality film.Last but not least, i could conclude this movie as a priceless material,even my grandmother can produce and direct the same level and quality of this movie.
Robert W. Haunted Highway is one of those high school class projects done on a budget of 25 dollars and their Mom's home video camera...or at least that's what it looks like. This brand of Horror film has become strikingly dominant lately and your local Blockbuster is filled with them. You just don't know what you're getting into until you've rented it. Remarkable Haunted Highway turned out to be not as bad as some of the others out there. With a decent enough story and some campy moments the film actually keeps you entertained enough to not want to kill yourself like some of the other home video shot horror films (Ghost Watcher is a prime example of pure trash.) Haunted Highway actually has a strong story along the same ideas of Edgar Allen Poe's The Tell Tale Heart. The film has moments where it is eerie, strange, twisted and violent all of which keeps you wanting to know what will happen next. The cast is a little laughable at times and the special effects are mostly done with moving a camera around and at times it seems like the makers of this film are throwing things in just to try and make it more interesting or scary.Newcomer Rand Gamble plays the lead Greg Ross. He never really seems like a nice guy considering the extent of his character development is cheating on his wife, murdering his wife, and murdering his mistress all while driving to dump his wife's body. There really is no hero here but rather we watch Greg Ross get his just rewards in the shape of brutal guilty conscience, being haunted and basically a complete mental breakdown. A veteran and terrific actor could have made this role unbelievable but for a low budget, indie film Gamble does alright and maybe this will get him some notice. He plays the role without coming across as campy which some of the acting does. Japanese actress/model Hinano Yoshikawa plays Greg's mistress and the object that ghost of his conscience is taking to haunt him. Now I will say straight up that her voice was incredibly annoying although it made for some eerie moments. She has the right look and her role was almost entirely made to be creepy while she haunted him but her voice was so whiny and annoying. Still she accomplished her role and got some of the scarier scenes. The most experienced of the cast is Laura Putney who plays Greg's wife Amanda. Obviously within the first ten minutes she is killed but then returns a couple of times as a ghost or a body. It's hard to judge her acting ability from that but she does okay.A film like this really can't be anything but campy considering it's budget. I give kudos to director and co-writer Junichi Suzuki for really utilizing a creepy setting and atmosphere to try and make it scary and it works some of the time. I still contend that with a bigger budget and some more experienced actors this film could have been really something but Greg's entire breakdown including the end of the film which I thought was really quite brilliant is really something. If you happen to somehow be a fan of this type of amateur film then this is one you should absolutely see because I HATE these films and yet this one was very watchable and had a strong story, well worth the hour and some it takes to sit through. Far from true brilliance but also not trash by any means. Check it out for a different kind of horror. 6/10
Jimbo This is possibly the worst movies of all time. I've seen some bad movies, and this one is a killer. Every film school in the world should make their students watch this movie as a perfect example of how you should not make a movie! How anyone could make a movie this bad I honestly don't know. When a studio is in production, how could they actually let this one through the screening process? Couldn't they see how bad it was? Bad and almost non-existent story line and terrible acting on almost everyones part. I've given this a one out of ten, but thats only because the rating system provides that as the lowest possible rating. I think IMDb should change their rating system to go between -10 and 10, the zero mark being the just barely watchable rating. If that were the case this would probably get a rating of around -8, as its a complete waste of time, and it actually hurt my brain to continue watching this at around the 20 minute mark.