In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Greg is a fashion photographer who's having an affair with an Japanese model and when his wife confronts him about it. Thinking that she knew nothing of it. They get into a tussle and her head accidentally hits the ground, incidentally killing her. He dumps the body in the car drunk and heads to Black Lake to hopefully dump the body, but his nocturnal journey there, turns into one nightmarish ride.Wow this Indie flick does seem to cop a real slapping?! Sure it's kinda derivative of a 2003 independent horror feature (you might call it a poorer man's version of it) and shares plenty in common with its modern Asian horror counterparts. Since it's directed by Junichi Suzuki and he co-wrote it with Koji Steven Sakai. But c'mon, it's not one of the worst. Okay it's far from good, but honestly there are more awful low-end horror flicks out there and really I found this to be quite watchable, strangely enough."Death Ride" is a creaky story that likes to play around with the disorientating nature of blurring the line between reality and imagination. It's not that successful in doing so and the repetitive actions and images can start to irritate. While it rapidly gets right into it, most of the premise involves around the protagonist's driving his car to a destination that we feel we'll never get to. Then to spice up the trip we get to listen to the radio and just watch him go slowly off the boil. A sense that it doesn't seem to go anywhere, digs itself right into the material and the execution can come across as lightweight. It's all about the oddly creepy occurrences with such little structure coming from its paper thin plot and contrived build ups. Within the narrative are meandering flashbacks, but anyhow they are essential to what's going on. The hint-laced script is rather tight because they kept the dialogues fairly sparse and keeps things pretty serious with a few dabs of pitch black humour. Moody camera-work along with an effectively shuddery music score helps build an quietly dreary atmosphere from it's eerily lifeless highway settings. Suzuki directs in an exhaustingly edgy style and works in some neatly weird visuals and few moments of tension (which don't involve strangeness), but also he does his fair share of poor attempts of chills and unnecessarily pads it out. Rand Gamble's performance as Greg is credibly good and rest of the cast are sub-par. Although, Hinano Yoshikawa is rather stilted with her dialogue and wooden in her turn as the model Greg's seeing.I wouldn't recommend it, but I found it to be an admirable effort that knew what it wanted to achieve. Expect very little and you might find something worthwhile with it. However I'm one of a few who didn't find it to be "extremely" awful. Can you take the chance?

i give this movie a one only because you can't put zeros or halves if i could i would sue the writer, director, actors, and everyone else involved in this film's production for the time in my life this movie took away. I could (and am working on)write much better and I can act much better than them too. I have nothing against low budget movies but this movie isn't low budged, it's nonexistent budget. No blood, no gore, no plot, no meaningful dialouge, no acting that doesn't suck more than anything i've ever seen (and i've seen some really bad acting), no climax, no anything at all which makes a movie bearable.I would've stopped watching it by halfway through but I thought it might improve by the end, it didn't and it sucked throughThis is truly a horror movie...but not in a good way, the horror is in the fact that it was actually made and you are watching it

As I sit here, trying to think of something positive, I draw only a blank. Well, wait a minute, the movie did end. I guess that could be a positive. This movie had many titles. "Death Ride" was changed to "Haunted Highway" and could have been changed again to "Driving. The Movie". This movie was like the many driving scenes. Pointless. The Japanese Horror Gods must have been looking the other way and not been able to stop this movie from coming out. And then there was the acting...or lack thereof. The main character apparently had no way to show emotion on his face so they used makeup to help him out. And I'm guessing that Hinano Yoshikawa either spoke no English or broken English, so they dub her voice for one that is worse? It would have been better if she spoke her native language and they just had subtitles. Now, it wouldn't have made any sense in the movie, being as the main character probably wouldn't understand her but hey, if you've seen the movie, why try to make sense of it. This movie fails at getting any scares. The scare shots are so predictable that you are sitting there waiting for them to just get it over with. If you want to see a low budget but well made movie, go out and rent "Dead End". It will make "Death Haunted Highway Ride" look like it was made by pre-schoolers.

ACTING was the pits. The leads had no connection. The story line has possibilities. With different actors might have given the movie of a chance. The flash backs did nothing for me. Some of the ghost scenes were impressive, considering it was a low budget film. The knocking from inside the trunk, Then as he turned around the sprit knocking on the window and chasing him down the road. Also when the trunk opens up and closes then blood covers the car and a face falls on to the windshield. They were the best of the so called scary scenes. Was it me? Who was that person.(The sprit). She did not look like either of the leads. How was she involved? I guess you you had a few drinks or a joint or two you could get into this movie.