my whole situation reek of cliché . i know i be in for trouble when that line be uttered early in the film . i have be around for the start of this kind of genre way back in the 1970s . i have see em all . grant and it take a lot for me to be scar and and basically it take a bit of originality to do that these day . call me jaded if you like . but when a film like dark ride come along with no regard for originality or even any attempt to really be good and it just make me angry . when i be not impress by a film and i usually just do not comment here . but when i feel insulted and i feel i have to speak up . expendable college age pretty teens with problem sum up the cast and and a for the plot . there be not even an attempt to try something new . you have see it dozens of time before and and even those other one weren not that good . teen with the typical cliché personality go on the road to spring break and and stop by an old amusement park to stay the night at the dark ride there . just happen to be the same night a psychopath from a mental institution show up and seem he use to live in that dark ride year ago . argument and pot smoking and sex and look at my boob and and lot and lot of run around and around ( like the cast of scooby doo trap in a warehouse or castle or candy factory or etc . ) the company that put together this film and my2centences ( though back by lion gate ) and must have only put 2 cent into this project . remember how the ride be suppose to have car on track . um and do anyone actually see any track when the teen be roam around and go in all kind of direction and room and etc . though in the prologue the car seem to have a direct route and some overhead shot show fog try to hide that there be really no track . even though bill warn a gal to watch out for the track ( much later and at that ) and you could clearly see on the floor there weren not any and and while they go into other room there be no logic to the place and no real directional way that the track would be able to take a car around in them . there be plenty of shot of thing hang and drop down and dummy pop up nowhere near where the ride would have be go . you get the idea . it be a set that be a bunch of wall and hall and and stair that do not have any use . lot of fog too to make the set look more busy . while jim ( dufus guy ) be in the basement try to fix the power later and there be no reason electrically power dummy and item would be there in the first place . oh and yeah and actually just for the camera to show a close up of to fill in time and scare . surprise . none to speak of . when bill run off and be never see again until the end and how could any viewer not be suspicious . remind me of farley granger disappear early in the prowler ( 1981 ) and even when a character in scream 2 be just not there for 2/3 of the film and show up again near the end . some that have praise dark ride ( one person on here actually call it a modern masterpiece . ) go on about it be an homage to those 70 and 80 slasher flick and include the funhouse ( which do not scare me when i saw it initial run in theatre in 1981 ) . honor other film that be suppose to be classic be one thing and but just take element from them to slop together a new film with no real care for it own personality be quite another . i could just imagine the folk responsible for dark ride say give the kid what they usually will go for represent violence and gore and pot smoking and and boob ( well and usually ignore what the gal would want to see nudity wise ) . they will easily be distract by those thing and probably would not notice there not much else go for this . frankly and i be surprise i do not hear the word dude throughout the film . i like that the after dark horrorfest opt for indie project in 2006 ( even if it be more economical ) and and some have real merit to them and particularly unrest and reincarnate and the abandon and and the hamilton ( penny dreadful be fun enough and just pad though with extra victim ) . dark ride be the bad of the lot for me . i can forgive a film for be bad if they actually try to do something creative and but dark ride be a clichéd and tired and and tedious disposable project . i have a suspicion that lion gate would have originally just release this a a dtv title and but since they be go to be involve release the after dark title and they force dark ride into the bunch ( notice how a lion gate film be on the beginning of the credit and while basically the other after dark title do not ) . they should not have tout that these film be too much or too graphic for most audience if that be the case then these would all be nc 17. i do not listen to hype and and go into these film on my own and find some worthy of be very creative and some just plain waste of time ( like the gravedancers and wicked little thing be no more than sci fi channel production that you would watch on a saturday night ) . you win some and you lose some . dark ride show that someone pay a lot of people to do a project that just doesn not show any kind of care be put into it represent just get it do and chuck it out to the kid .