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")

Yes, folks, this one is the perfect storm of zero production value, terrible acting, awful script, horrible direction--if he was even on the set--and ludicrous DVD special features. There may be worse movies out there, but none worse than this total package.We are told that the director has 30 years experience in film. Doing what, I would ask? Believe me, a six-year-old kid with no experience and a new video camera could do much better.Did the distributor watch the movie before releasing it? Did anyone notice that the making of featurette stops abruptly in mid-sentence? Was there an editor on this project? How about when Greg buys gas at a station clearly marked "closed"? Does it really take all night to drive 40 miles? A total fiasco.

I had never heard of this movie, but I saw it in the rental store and it had a cool cover and interesting description. Besides, I'll watch anything because you never know when you'll find a treasure out there.Not this time! I agree with the other comments that this is one of the worst ever, and there's no way to blame it on the budget. Actually I think it has much more to do with a language barrier. This is a Japanese film - Japanese director, writer, cinematographer, crew - everyone but the main cast, one of which is a beautiful Japanese "actress". I get the impression that the writer simply had someone translate the script to English who either A) was not fluent in English or B) totally ignored the idiom of the target language. Why else would the main character keep apologizing to everyone he kills for killing them? Anyway, the film really isn't worth reviewing because it's so totally flawed and stilted. The few frights are equivalent to someone jumping out of a closet and yelling "BOO" - and then doing it over and over again in case you missed it the first time. I only wish video stores offered some sort of rental guarantee - didn't they used to? This is one of the few films I've ever rented for which I would ask for my money back.

As I sit here, trying to think of something positive, I draw only a blank. Well, wait a minute, the movie did end. I guess that could be a positive. This movie had many titles. "Death Ride" was changed to "Haunted Highway" and could have been changed again to "Driving. The Movie". This movie was like the many driving scenes. Pointless. The Japanese Horror Gods must have been looking the other way and not been able to stop this movie from coming out. And then there was the acting...or lack thereof. The main character apparently had no way to show emotion on his face so they used makeup to help him out. And I'm guessing that Hinano Yoshikawa either spoke no English or broken English, so they dub her voice for one that is worse? It would have been better if she spoke her native language and they just had subtitles. Now, it wouldn't have made any sense in the movie, being as the main character probably wouldn't understand her but hey, if you've seen the movie, why try to make sense of it. This movie fails at getting any scares. The scare shots are so predictable that you are sitting there waiting for them to just get it over with. If you want to see a low budget but well made movie, go out and rent "Dead End". It will make "Death Haunted Highway Ride" look like it was made by pre-schoolers.