Although its premise may not be original, Joy Ride is still tense, chilling escapism.

| Oct 25, 2018

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 20, 2002

If you're looking to have your nerves fried and your pulse pounded, this is your ticket to ride.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 29, 2001

Dahl works the audience like the dial of a car radio, testing out all manner of squeals and static and all-out, high-pitched terror.

| Oct 12, 2001

Superior to the majority of the yawn-inducing suspensers out there these days.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 8, 2001

Climb into this rig and you'll be sweating bullets.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 5, 2001

It's encouraging to see more than passing attention paid to character development.

Full Review | Oct 5, 2001

Expertly toys with the fear any carbon-based life-form feels when one of those Peterbilt express trains comes rolling by with a thundercrack of vibration at about 240 mph, gently urging us to move right or die crushed and bleeding.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 5, 2001

It attains its modest ambitions with dispatch and wit, and without ever lifting its foot from the pedal.

| Oct 5, 2001

Dahl permeates the film with enough quirky detail ... and horror-movie staples ... to keep things interesting.

| Oct 5, 2001

A genuine thriller, guaranteed to whiten knuckles, grind enamel and render armrests into scrap.

Full Review | Oct 5, 2001

Much more effectively terrifying than the usual overplotted, underwritten Hollywood thriller.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 5, 2001

Anyone actually looking for a genuinely scary movie at this point will have a lot of fun with Joy Ride.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 5, 2001

Terrific escapist fare, stylish, outrageous and compelling.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 5, 2001

Dahl and his screenwriters spoil it by turning the trucker and his rig into a metallic-sheathed monster willing and able to do anything to get back at his enemies.

| Oct 5, 2001

Lives up to its title.

| Oct 5, 2001

No one wins awards for movies like this, but this is escapist entertainment raised to the level of art.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 5, 2001

Zahn's hilariously electric performance is the best thing in the movie.

Full Review | Oct 5, 2001

Nothing more or less than scary noirish fun, low on thematic ambition but giddily high on the fright front.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 5, 2001

The endless cat-and-mouse game starts out silly, then it gets ridiculous.

| Oct 5, 2001