Taglines: Somewhere round the next bend, lies the road to terror.
Midnight Ride movie storyline. 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 a cast, he is left for dead by 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.
Midnight Ride is a 1990 action/thriller with slasher elements. It stars Mark Hamill (as Justin McCay), Michael Dudikoff (as Lawson Markman), Savina Gersak, (as Lara Markman) and Robert Mitchum in a cameo role as Dr. Hardy.
Midnight Ride (1990)
Directed by: Bob Bralver
Starring: Mark Hamill, Michael Dudikoff, Savina Gersak, Robert Mitchum, Pamela Ludwig, Timothy Brown, Lezlie Deane, Cynthia Szigeti, DeeDee Rescher Ball
Screenplay by: Russell V. Manzatt, Bob Bralver
Production Design by: Billy Jett
Cinematography by: Roberto D’Ettorre Piazzoli
Film Editing by: Claudio M. Cutry
Set Decoration by: David de Vos
Music by: Carlo Maria Cordio
Distributed by: Cannon Films
Release Date: July 20, 1990
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