Dark Ride is a movie that could have been so much fun to watch. A slasher film in the most cliché possible way. Done by the book. College students going to on spring break, decide to go to a dark ride as a dare, smoke weed, tell a spooky ghost story about what happened in the dark ride, etc, etc. It starts off cliché but yet it starts off strong. I was intrigued and was drawn in. It was building up extremely well. The actors all did well, the set was very neat (think Child's Play 3 final act) and the antagonist was built up to be a very memorable character. It all falls in the third act where the slaughter actually begins. The actors seemed to play college students having fun pretty well but being terrified, and running for the lives, a different story. A lot of their emotion seemed fake. There was a scene where it clearly looked like they were trying to run for their lives, but the actual speed that they were walking in, and in the momentary pauses where one would wait for another to go through something were very unconvincing. And the ending was very disappointing. I didn't mind the "twist" but the way they did it almost seemed too obvious, and even then, it didn't really change anything for the better. The twist didn't make anything more sickening, and the way it ended abruptly made it seem like the twist didn't even have enough time to explain itself. This movie is only for horror movie fans who have nothing to watch. I wouldn't put it on anyone's list of must watch, more of a one watch and your done forever. You could find better.

At an amusement park, two twin girls enter the "Dark Ride," one of those amusement park houses of horror where you go along a track and stuff pops out at you, and are killed by a madman. 15 years later, he escapes from an insane asylum and heads back to his killing grounds just as a group of college kids are about to illegally spend the night in the Dark Ride. Pretty typical "psycho kills stupid teens" premise.For those of you who have never heard of it, this movie is out of the original "After Dark Horrorfest - 8 Films to Die For" set. They usually get slammed by critics, but I tend to enjoy them, both the campy ones and the serious ones. This one tends to land on the campy side, IMO.Overall it was pretty enjoyable. Any real gripes I could come up with would just be nit-picking. Even though most of the cast is made up of unknowns (except the girl from The Sopranos and the guy from The Sandlot) but for the most part they all did an acceptable job. If you like slasher films, you will probably like it. The premise is cliché, but there were some decent twists that I didn't really see coming.Final Score - 6/10

Dark Ride features a gruesome opening sequence, a young woman being decapitated whilst delivering a blow job, and an outstanding vertical head slice—moments of gore which would automatically earn a movie a recommendation from me. Unfortunately, the film as a whole is so stale that it ends up as just one more reason for me to be wary of Lionsgate releases.A blatant rip-off of Tobe Hooper's The Funhouse (1981), Dark Ride sees a bunch of obnoxious teenagers (hot women, some studs, and a guy who looks like an unhealthy, ginger Elijah Wood) being murdered by a hulking psycho after opting to spend the night in an abandoned fairground ride. Whilst The Funhouse wasn't exactly the greatest example of the slasher genre, it could at least boast a modicum of originality and a style of its own; writer/director Craig Singer, on the other hand, clearly has very few fresh ideas, and is content to plagiarise both the look and feel of Hoopers' film.Less savvy horror fans unaware of the film's obvious cribbing might get a kick out of Dark Ride, but for those in the know, my advice is to save yourself some time and money and just enjoy the best bits on YouTube.

Where to begin, OK easy. The gore was ridiculous and the "beheading" looked like it was planned by a third grader with no knowledge of human anatomy. The acting was bad I think, if any of them were acting and not just wandering through the picture. I believe that the middle portion of this was filmed by three different directors. Upon seeing what they had wrought all three committed suicide when they were overcome with deserved guilt. Along comes a fourth director with no conscience, probably one who makes the Disney tween shows, and he takes all three of the others' work and pastes it together. How else can one explain our "heroine" suddenly stopping and declaring she would find the others, but then abandon her friend and return to a simpering useless twit again. And the ending made absolutely no sense. Surprise who else is a killer, but then lets the girl go after she killed his brother, and after he killed a guy for facing his brother?!?