''Midnight Ride'' is a 1990 American

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thriller film with slasher elements directed by Bob Bralver. It stars Michael Dudikoff,

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Plot

After a heated argument with her

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turned cop husband, Lawson ( Michael Dudikoff); 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

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, as he captures their dying moments on his

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. 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. As soon as Justin and Lara reach the hospital, Justin pretends Lara is paranoid and soon encounter Dr. Hardy, Justin's doctor who tried to help Justin when he first met him. While Lawson arrives at the hospital, Justin forces Dr. Hardy to give Lara the treatment of electric shocks. As much as Dr. Hardy tries to persuade Justin not to, he ignores him and gives Lara electric shocks, thus trying to kill her. Lawson comes right out of a ventilation shaft into the room stopping Justin from his insane doing and pursues him down to the engineers room tackling Justin down and throwing him right into a current, electrifying him to death. Lawson and Lara in the end head to an elevator, where Lawson forgives Lara and says that she is more important than his work. Not realizing that Justin had survived the incident and secretly dressed up as a patient, and now is in the elevator with them. When he is able to, Justin uses his knife to try to kill them both, but Lawson grabs his gun and shoots Justin directly in the head, thus killing him for definite.

Cast

* Michael Dudikoff as Lawson, Lara's Husband *

as Justin McKay * as Lara, Lawson's Wife *

as Dr. Hardy * Pamela Ludwig as Rental Agent * Timothy Brown as Jordan * Lezlie Deane as Joan * Steve Ingrassia as Man With Joan * Cynthia Szigeti as Mrs. Egan * Dee Dee Rescher as The Receptionist * R. A. Rondell as Officer Baker * Mark A. Pierce as Policeman

Release

The film was released on July 20, 1990 in the United States.

External links

*{{IMDb title, 0100148, Midnight Ride 1990 films 1990 action thriller films 1990s English-language films 1990s slasher films American action thriller films American slasher films Golan-Globus films 1990s American films Films scored by Carlo Maria Cordio English-language action thriller films

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