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Review of Dark Ride - After Dark Horror Fest
- Nearly a decade after two young girls are brutally murdered the monstrous killer Jonah escapes from a mental institution and returns to his familiar killing ground the theme park attraction "Dark Ride." His unfortunate victims this time are a group of college kids on a road trip that inevitably leads them to the Dark Ride where their night of youthful fun becomes a nightmare. The killer who is mimicking the sets within the attraction makes sure this is a "ride" audiences will never forget.System Requirements:Run Time: 94 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR Rating: R UPC: 031398183877 Manufacturer No: 18387
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Comments for Dark Ride - After Dark Horror Fest
- Posted on 2008-05-20
It was alright, but certainly nothing new
Dark Ride was definatly like watching an "R" rated, "Are You Afraid Of The Dark?" episode. It's not really the kind of movie you can get really into, and i found myself fast forwarding to the good parts. Even though the concept was cool and the acting was decent, there just wasn't anything new or memorable about it. Definatly not the best movie in the series, but worth seeing if you're with a hot chick!
Score: 2
- Posted on 2008-04-23
Dark Ride
Dark Ride is not unique or original in any way shape or form, it adds nothing to the slasher genre, but hey, how much could you possibly add anyway? That being said, Dark Ride is entertaining, it's a turn-your-brain-off-and-enjoy-the-blood movie. Nothing outstanding here, but it wasn't trying to be either. This movie wanted to be a fun and bloody ride, and it was.
Score: 3
- Posted on 2008-02-22
If you know what your getting...
If you want an Oscar worthy film, go look somewhere else. If you like cheesy old 80's horror movies with the same basic plot, and even worse acting, and disgusting gore, then you might want to check this out. The 1st hour is boring but towards the end, once they actually get there, it is great. Like I said, as long as you know what your getting.
Score: 3 - Posted on 2008-02-14
Dark Ride - After Dark Horror Fest
I bought this movie without ever having seen it or reading anything about it in a review. The title of the movie is what sold me. As soon as I read the title I instantly thought of Tobe Hooper's Funhouse from 1981. I figured I would get basically an updated version of Hooper's classic. I have to admit that I really enjoyed this film. There are those scenes which make you want to climb into your television and smack the [...]out of these [...] teenagers, but aside from that the film does have the ability to scare you. The 80's were filled with horror movies that depended on [...] teenagers, so I guess that makes sense. There are also some very nice gore scenes. I was surprised that I actually found a new horror movie (not from the 70's & 80's) that I liked.
Score: 5
- Posted on 2008-01-29
Standard fare.
Dark Ride (Craig Singer, 2006)
When your big draw is that one of your cast members is Ashley Tisdale's sister, you're probably in big trouble. That said, Jennifer, Ashley's older sister, is marginally less annoying, and the movie, while derivative and schlocky, is not thoroughly unwatchable.
The very thin plot: In 1989, a serial killer was discovered operating in a dark ride (what the rest of the world calls a tunnel of terror) in an amusement park in Asbury Park, NJ, and put in an institution. He breaks out fifteen years later and heads back to his old hunting grounds. On the same night, a group of kids on their way to spring break decide to spend the night in the same dark ride, which is scheduled to reopen three days hence.
The movie suffers from two plot holes big enough to drive a truck through. The first I can't say anything about without revealing some major spoilers, but the second I've already mentioned; how is it that no one figured out that an escaped serial killer would go back to the place where he'd committed his crimes? You'd think there would be a few uniformed people around over and above the security guards. (This would have actually worked in the film's favor, I think, as it would have increased the risk factor for the group of teens breaking into the place to spend the night there.) If things like that will kill your enjoyment of a movie, then you might as well stop reading now; they're there, and they're awful. Now, the many other things that might also kill your enjoyment of this movie. There's the acting, which ranges from mediocre (lead actress Jamie-Lynn Sigler of The Sopranos, whose role consists of either screaming or sleepwalking through her part) to the truly horrific (Alpha Dog's Alex Solowitz, who plays the group's driver, a stoner surfer-dude type; on the plus side, Solowitz is the spitting image of a young Ron Perelman). The special effects are, to put it tactfully, not special. The plot is tissue-paper thin, as it is with most slasher films, but there's not even an inkling of interesting ways to break out of the mold here; this is a straight slasher film of the type that hasn't been fresh since about the first Halloween film.About the only positive thing I can say is that at least, as with the horrible House of Wax remake from a few years ago, both the crew and the "name" star were smart enough to keep the most fun murder for said "name" star. (It almost takes the cheesiness out of the obligatory bra-flash shot Tisdale has at the beginning of the movie.)
But, despite all this, as long as you turn your brain off, it's not something you'll find yourself actively hating. That doesn't come until afterwards, when you're wondering why you just wasted an hour and a half of your life on it. **
Score: 2