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Good movie but grossly overrated

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Well for a slasher movie it delivers a great atmosphere into the genre, the film is although surprisingly scary and totally could become a cult classic in a decade, i would totally watch this film, any time this film would play i suggest this film for horror fans. It was fun exciting, and sick, although the ending did fall a bit

I really don't know what to say. This film is terrible. I'm mean, it's not crap. It 'did' have some gory moments, but it just didn't cut it. It's one of those films looks good but is really crap when you come to watch it.I was expecting some interesting deaths considering the concept of the film. But really they were badly executed. Either by stabbing or slashing. It was terrible. The only death I did actually like was the ending part where the villain/clown got impaled in the spikes at the end. That to me, was one of the only epic scene from the film. Aside from the beginning which was pretty good.Now I'm not one for going on about clichés & I'm not. But this film took the cake. i.e. female soul survivor, lack of phone signal, naive characters, muscular lead character, a funny guy, whining 'hot' girls. Need I go on?The blood & gore was average, but the deaths were not. Especially considering it's an 18! Story line was OK, with a good twist but, a very VERY bad ending! It was quite confusing & crap! It sucked so bad!!Overall I'd say this film was disappointing. Though I bought this one 2nd hand I'm still down after watching this. I just don't understand how this would pass any directors standards! Wouldn't pass mine I can tell you that! It's still a mystery to me as to why films like this get made & aren't bloody or gory, let alone interesting enough! 2/10

I agree with the majority of voters that the movie "Dark Ride" is not exactly a masterpiece. Nevertheless, I think, director Craig Singer has to be thanked for having made the first movie of what is called either "dark ride" or "ghost train" in British English.In this Movie Database, there is a very concise definition of what we are speaking here: " 'Dark ride' is an old term used in the carnival business to describe rides that involve getting in a cart or buggy and traversing a dark, enclosed building designed to have characters or props appear at intervals, designed to surprise or entertain". However, the most important part of a dark ride, besides the maze-like horror cabinet, is forgotten here: the combination of rails and wheel. There are indeed "ghost houses" or "haunted houses" in the form of "walk-throughs", i.e. without carts or buggies driving through. Not only is it amazing that it took decades until the first movie was made about dark rides – a topic that is more than predestined to deliver the background for or like here the center of almost any thinkable form of horror. It is also amazing that the British term "dark ride" is almost unknown in the US – although there are dark rides even in small theme parks (stationary) or on fairgrounds (itinerant). The other British term, "ghost train", is ambiguous: On the one side, it is used for a real train driven or populated by ghosts (like in many movies under this title), or it is used for dark ride, being a literal translation of German "Geisterbahn".Ghost trains or dark rides or haunted houses appear first on German and Dutch fairgrounds in the early 1930ies. Their ancestors were "hollow trains", "scene railways" and generally horror cabinets, which came up in the late 19th century. When fairground business started to decline between the two World Wars, many of the famous German dark rides which were built by the legendary showman Hugo Haase, were sold to America. The best two-floor dark rides or ghost trains came for example to Coney Island where they have been gigantic attractions. However, the fate of these theme-rides has never been written. Why they did not even inspire a movie until 2006, when Singer's "Dark Ride" was released, stays a mystery. Moreover, dark rides hardly ever appear in American standard works about fairground art, although Geoff Warden and Richard Ward displayed in their art history reference work hundreds of pictures of both Europe-imported and US-built dark rides and similar theme-rides. Nowadays, it seems that the once fascinating rides through dark rides have been followed by horror movies under use of extensive special effects. However, watching a movie can never substitute a ride through a horror cabinet. Therefore, dark rides could perhaps be revitalized through using newer forms of horror provided by movies.

Jamie-Lynn Sigler stars in the story of some friends on a road trip who run afoul of an escaped mental patient who was sent away for killing several people at a haunted house ride on the Jersey shore. By the book and by the numbers story of the sort that hasn't been made in the last twenty years. With echoes to House of 1000 Corpses, Funhouse and other similarly set films this is the sort of thing that we've all seen before, assuming we've been watching horror films for an period of time. Is it bad? no not really, but its far from gripping simply because its so similar to stuff we've seen before. There are some flashes in this film of what might have been-shots small sequences or an odd twist- that signal what might have been. Worth a look on cable (it runs frequently on SCIFI) I wouldn't go out of my way to look for it. This is the weakest, or perhaps the most disappointing of the four 8 Films to Die For from the first year that I've seen.