Midnight Ride
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| Midnight Ride | |
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| Image:Midnight Ride poster.JPG Somewhere round the next bend, lies the road to terror |
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| Directed by | Bob Bralver |
| Produced by | Ovidio G. Assonitis |
| Written by | Russell V. Manzatt/Bob Bralver (as Robert Bralver) |
| Starring | Mark Hamill, Robert Mitchum, Michael Dudikoff, Savina Gersak, Mark A. Pierce, Dee Dee Rescher, Debbie Evans, Timothy Brown, Michael Crabtree, R.A. Rondell, Louis Schwiebert, Bob Bralver |
| Music by | Carlo Maria Cordio |
| Cinematography | Roberto D'Ettorre Piazzoli |
| Editing by | Claudio M. Cutry |
| Distributed by | Cannon Pictures Inc./Cannon Film Distributors/Motion Picture Company of Australia Limited/Warner Home Video |
| Release date(s) | 1990 |
| Running time | 93 min |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
Midnight Ride is a 1990 action/thriller (with slasher elements) film. It stars Mark Hamill, Michael Dudikoff, Savina Gersak, and Robert Mitchum in a cameo role (as a shrink who is the closest thing to a father figure the antagonist ever had). The film went out of it's way to display some genuine sympathy towards the killer, Justin; it showed that he's murder spree was often not well thought out and was more impulsive (he tended to violently attack those who hurt him physically/verbally).
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[edit] Synopsis
After a heated argument with her military police turned cop husband, Lawson; Russian immigrant house wife, Lara storms off into the night convinced he's more married to his job than her. On her drive to a friend's house, she takes pity on a mournful hitchhiker Justin Mckay, desperately searching for a ride. Her offer of a lift to him plunges her into a night of pure terror as Justin is seriously disturbed, twisted by a tortured childhood which ended in being made to see his little sister's shocking murder and mutilation at the hands of his brutal alcoholic mother (who took a butcher knife to her head and used it like a comb) who systematically slays anyone who harms or offends him on a murderous impulse, as he captures their dying moments on his Polaroid camera. As Lawson struggles to follow Lara despite a leg in plaster, he is left for dead by our Justin, but recovers and now must search the steadily darkening roads for Lara, while her deeply troubled captor Justin continues his uncontrollable slaughter-spree, rampaging through the night leaving behind carnage and fiery devastation on his path of madness.
[edit] Cast
| Actor / Actress | Character |
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| Michael Dudikoff | Lawson |
| Mark Hamill | Justin Mckay |
| Savina Gersak | Lara |
| Robert Mitchum | Dr. Hardy |
| Timothy Brown | Jordan |
| R.A. Rondell | Officer Baker |
| Mark A. Pierce
(as Mark Pierce) |
Policeman |
| Bob Bralver | Policeman |
| Michael Crabtree | Policeman |
| Louis Schwiebert | Policeman |
| Lezlie Deane | Joan |
