Hayride is a Slasher Movie by Terron R. Parsons.
Steven Summers (Jeremy Ivy) has returned home from college with his girlfriend Amanda (Sherri Eakin) to his family farm for the Halloween holiday. Every year, his family runs a popular haunted hayride, and Steven has returned to go on it with Amanda. The hayride features a lot of scary characters, including one that Steven was quite afraid of back when he was a kid, Ol' Pitchfork, a farmer who supposedly went on a killing spree when his daughter ran away to be with her boyfriend.
Incidentally, a murderer has escaped recently when the car that was transporting him crashed and he strangles the driver to death. As you can expect, the hayride soon goes from simple Halloween fun to Halloween Horror.
The film was released on October 14th, 2012. The movie also has a sequel, Hayride 2.
Hayride contains examples of:
- All Part of the Show: At one point, the killer murders one of the scare actors, who is himself playing a killer, in plain sight of the hayride truck. The customers just cheer for him, thinking it's an act.
- Based on a True Story: An In-Universe example. When everyone is seated around a campfire, Morgan tells everyone that he based Ol' Pitchfork, one of the characters invented for the hayride, off a farmer who supposedly murdered his family. Morgan states that he went on a killing spree in response to his daughter running away from home with her boyfriend.
- Bear Trap: A bunch of former customers fleeing the hayride gets caught by bear traps. One guy is even trying to pry his open.
- Blood from the Mouth: One policeman investigating a crime scene starts to spontaneously bleed from his mouth. It's then revealed he was stabbed from behind by a blade.
- Cop Killer: Ol’ Pitchfork kills six policemen during the movie - two at his old house, and four at the hayride itself.
- Flashback: A couple of these occur when Morgan's telling the story of Ol' Pitchfork.
- Neck Snap: A policeman is killed in this manner by the killer.
- One-Word Title: Hayride, naturally.
- Red Herring: For the entire movie, both the police and the audience are led to believe that the escaped killer, Malcolm Guffin, is the man in the Ol’ Pitchfork costume. Guffin was actually killed by the real Ol’ Pitchfork, R. W. Rayborn, not long after his escape. Rayborn then donned the costume he stole and committed the hayride massacre.
- Sackhead Slasher: The killer dons a burlap sack over his head.
