A college student returning home for Halloween is forced to face his childhood fears when an escaped killer takes refuge in his family's "Haunted Hayride".A college student returning home for Halloween is forced to face his childhood fears when an escaped killer takes refuge in his family's "Haunted Hayride".A college student returning home for Halloween is forced to face his childhood fears when an escaped killer takes refuge in his family's "Haunted Hayride".
Bennett Wayne Dean Sr.
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Two events collide in HAYRIDE creating the backbone of the story: #1- A behemoth-sized, mass-murdering maniac named Duncan escapes custody and goes on a rampage. #2- an annual Halloween hayride takes place nearby. This occurs after the hayride operators have told the tale of "Pitchfork", a legendary murderer.
Needless to say, Duncan shows up and the gushy fun begins.
HAYRIDE is an ultra-low-budget film that makes the best of its limited resources. Are there moments of clunky-ness? Yes. Is there some cheeeze? Yes, but overall it's an effective enough Halloween retro-slasher. Hell, there's even a bit of character development! Now, THAT'S scary!...
Needless to say, Duncan shows up and the gushy fun begins.
HAYRIDE is an ultra-low-budget film that makes the best of its limited resources. Are there moments of clunky-ness? Yes. Is there some cheeeze? Yes, but overall it's an effective enough Halloween retro-slasher. Hell, there's even a bit of character development! Now, THAT'S scary!...
Classic(?) horror premise, boring storyline, you already know this movie. decent acting, especially in pivotal points, but who doesnt know the ending? unfortunately set up for a sequel, ok yeah ill watch that too
The front cover of the DVD has a bloke in black hoodie with Jason from Friday the 13th hockey mask but instead we get a Jason lookalike big sack over his head just like Jason before hockey mask killing with a pitchfork.
Hayride is supposed to be a slasher, an ode to the slashers. And in fact it is really a slasher, can't disagree about that fact but sadly it's missing a few points that are a must be done in slashers. There isn't any point of view from the killer and there's no nudity.
Still I can live with that fact but there's more going on. Sadly this flick is on the boring side because it do has a lot of talking going on and a lot of stupid conversations. But not only that. Most of the killings are done off-camera which naturally doesn't add a positive note towards the horror.
The story itself did had a lot of potential but it's the flick itself that really isn't almost watchable due that fact of not showing the horror.
Hayride is low budget but doens't offer a nice ride.
Gore 0/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 1/5 Story 2/5 Comedy 0/5
Still I can live with that fact but there's more going on. Sadly this flick is on the boring side because it do has a lot of talking going on and a lot of stupid conversations. But not only that. Most of the killings are done off-camera which naturally doesn't add a positive note towards the horror.
The story itself did had a lot of potential but it's the flick itself that really isn't almost watchable due that fact of not showing the horror.
Hayride is low budget but doens't offer a nice ride.
Gore 0/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 1/5 Story 2/5 Comedy 0/5
Starring Kindergarten Cop (1990) bad guy Richard Tyson we have this generic slasher with antagonist Pitchfork. Big well rounded masked individual with *Drumroll* a pitchfork.
Full of bad editing, cut away deaths (A real pet hate of mine) and little originality this slasher flick really doesn't bring anything new to the table.
Revolving around the men and women providing the annual "Hayride" a scary tractor trailer pulled night time experience and our pitchfork wielding maniac.
The ending is pretty dreadful as is the film, but it has it's merits you just need to dig really deep to appreciate them.
The Good:
Richard Tyson
The Hayride experience is kind of neat
The Bad:
Very generic
Poorly edited
Awful ending
Full of bad editing, cut away deaths (A real pet hate of mine) and little originality this slasher flick really doesn't bring anything new to the table.
Revolving around the men and women providing the annual "Hayride" a scary tractor trailer pulled night time experience and our pitchfork wielding maniac.
The ending is pretty dreadful as is the film, but it has it's merits you just need to dig really deep to appreciate them.
The Good:
Richard Tyson
The Hayride experience is kind of neat
The Bad:
Very generic
Poorly edited
Awful ending
Did you know
- TriviaAlthough the characters Beautiful and Dumb play twins in the movie, they are actually cousins in real life.
- GoofsUpon killing the actor wearing the plastic hockey mask Pitchfork raises the axe up to reveal the mask still attached. The mask then falls to the ground revealing that it has no damage.
- ConnectionsEdited into Hayride 2 (2015)
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Details
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- Budget
- $60,000 (estimated)
- Runtime
- 1h 33m(93 min)
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.78 : 1
- 16:9 HD
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