Midnight Ride (film)

Midnight Ride (film)
Midnight Ride
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Somewhere round the next bend, lies the road to terror
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) July 20 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 its way to display some genuine sympathy towards the killer, Justin; it showed that his 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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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.

Cast

Actor / Actress Character
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
Steve Ingrassia Man with Joan
Cynthia Szigeti Mrs. Egan
Dee Dee Rescher Receptionist
Pamela Ludwig Rental agent

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