October 11: A Horror Film That Features a Roller Coaster

Kristy (Aimee Brooks, Critters 3) and James (Damian Maffei, Haunt) try to get over their fear of amusement parks through immersion therapy, but end up fighting an evil clown and learning that they must experience all of the urban legends of the park and ride all of the rides before they can leave.

Shot at the abandoned Chippewa Lake Amusement Park in Medina, Ohio before it was demolished, this at least was made somewhere filled with urban legends, like a crocodile that escape in 1800s, a monkey escaping in the 1940s, residual hauntings including big band music playing in the middle of the night and nature growing over the rides, it was quite the set for the movie. Joe Unger, who plays The Carny, claims that his father was a carny and may have actually worked at the park.

I really liked the flashbacks in this and how they reveal the stories of all of the people trapped here; that said, I prefer director and writer Jay Woelfel’s Beyond Dreams Door. This seems to go on way longer than its nearly two-hour length. The acting isn’t bad, and there are some ideas here. I just wish they were a little tighter. Still, it’s rather ambitious.

You can watch this on Tubi.