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Dark Ride (2006)

Worth a look

[5/10 · 18 November 2006]

Dark Ride

It starts out with two young girls being brutally murdered by a psychopath that lives inside an amusement park attraction call "Dark Ride". After being incarcerated for over a decade, the killer escapes from the mental hospital and takes refuge inside the now abandoned Dark Ride. Meanwhile, a group of college students on Spring Break decide to spend the night inside the abandoned amusement park ride for thrills, and to save money rather than spend it in a hotel. This is where they start getting knocked off one by one by the killer who now wears a childlike mask to conceal his facial deformity. I thought this was a decent flick. The writing was not great, but there was some great jokes within the film itself. There is a great kill scene that involves decapitation and oral sex. It was good stuff. I'll definitely be looking for this on DVD. There was also some recognizable actors within this film like Jamie-Lynn Di Scala (The Sopranos), and Patrick Renna (The Sandlot). The only problem I had with this movie was the ending. I think it tried too hard to have a twist ending like the Saw films, but it was worth the 1hr 50 min of my time.

After watching this film, I can see that the director borrowed elements of Halloween, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Tobe Hooper's : The Funhouse, which there was a number of similarities between The Funhouse and Dark Ride range from teenagers spending the night within the attraction to being hunted down by a deformed killer to the creepy puppets and horror props that create the eerie ambiance of the films.

Ginger Snaps (2000)

Very good and very different werewolf movie.

[15 January 2004]

Last night I had the opportunity to view this movie,in which I heard about from a horror website. Werewolf films are my favorite in the horror genre, and I found this one to be very different from the rest. A film that depicts a sixteen year old girl who is bitten by a werewolf on the same day she begins to menstruate has taken the whole werewolf film to a whole new direction. I found this film to be entertaining in the sense that it focuses on a teenage girl who has normal teenage girl problems already, and then has to face the fact that she is becoming a monster. There is plenty of gore throughout the film. I was not to impressed with the creature itself. The four-legged werewolf always came off to me as more of a big ugly rabid dog, and always seemed less menacing as its bipedal counterpart(the Howling, Bad Moon). This is also another film that discredits silver as means to kill or weaken a werewolf. I always hated An American Werewolf in London/Paris for this. Werewolves are supposed to be supernatural creatures that could only be killed by silver. What good is being an all powerful creature, if you can easily be killed by getting shot by regular bullets( AWIL/AWIP) or getting hit by a van. Aside from the creature's weakness, I thought the film was great with a unsuspecting ending. It has definitely earned a place in my collection of horror.