Ruminating on Joy Ride (A Horror Inductee Episode)

Horror comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s full of agitated alligators, bitey boars, creepy crawlies, disgusting degenerates, elemental eliminations, flesh eating freaks, gigantic gators, and so much more. What’s scary for one person may be funny to another; to some it’s campy to others it’s art. But what makes a horror movie? For a genre of shifting definitions, is there an answer? On today’s episode of Horror Inductee, we are going to take a step back 2 decades and ask the question, is Joy Ride a horror film? This 2001 fast-paced, well, joy ride, came to us from writers Clay Tarver and JJ Abrahams, and 16x Dexter director John Dahl. This film released nearly one month tk the day after 9/11. In a complete twist, a then-reeling American populace accepted the controlled carnage of Joy Ride to the tune 36 million dollars on a 23 budget. So, is this Steve Zahn vehicle a horror movie? Is Rusty Nail a bonafide slasher? And is Joy Ride secretly a shark film? Let’s discuss!
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Music and Production by Mitch Proctor for Area 42 Studios and Sound

Episode Artwork Charles Langley and Mitch Proctor for Area 42 Studios and Sound