In “Ride of Die,” things go sideways for its road trippers in a hurry. Paula and Sloane are barely out of St. Louis when they need a tow. The truck driver arrives with a twang. He’s unsavory and too leering for comfort. Matters aren’t helped any that minutes earlier, Paula had noticed something swinging from a tree in this stretch of rural blacktop.
It’s probably not fair to compare films that put two women on the road and under duress to the 1991 classic “Thelma & Louise,” but when that on-the-lam duo drove off a cliff and into icon status, the film all but guaranteed ghostly sightings. A recent
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