Joy Ride

Released around the same time as JEEPERS CREEPERS this smart little jobbie somehow got lost in the shuffle. Not quite as unique as JEEPERS CREEPERS, JOY RIDE is not without it's own charms. Yes, it borrows heavily from THE CAR which ripped off DUEL which was written by Richard Mattheson who everybody rips off. Still, there is fresh blood in this old concept and part of what makes it so effective here is Hollywood's seemingly resident psycho Ted Levine. We never see him, only hear him over a CB radio and shit fuck damn if he isn't more scary disembodied. I mean no disrespect to Levine, on the contrary it is his "performance" here that takes JOY RIDE right off the edge of the cliff. Well worth looking for and most certainly a dark room is needed.