Everyone occasionally gets paranoid about whether or not they can trust their Uber driver, but with even less vetting for riders, who knows what kind of killers, creeps, or weirdos might hop into a driver’s back seat? At least, that’s the premise of Ride, a high-octane thriller from writer-director Jeremy Ungar that may have you thinking twice before you sign up to work Uber.
“My dream was, let’s make a Hitchcock movie in an Uber,” Ungar tells Inverse.
The result is a film that blends classic cinematic storytelling with extremely contemporary technology. Ride feels like a story we’ve seen before, but it also “couldn’t take place any other time period.”
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