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to attend a dinner date. Meanwhile, Blackheart, the demonic son of Mephistopheles, comes to Earth, along with three fallen angels who bonded with the elements air, earth, and water. They are tasked to find the lost contract of San Venganza. In response, Mephistopheles makes Blaze the new Ghost Rider and offers to return his soul if he defeats Blackheart, though he is also told he has no choice in the matter. Blaze is driven straight to the station on his first ride, where he transforms into the Ghost Rider and kills the earth angel, Gressil. He also saves a young girl from a mugger and incapacitates him with the penance stare (a power that allows the Ghost Rider to make any evil person experience all the pains they caused on their victims as long as the victims were good and not evil). The next day, he meets a man called the caretaker, who seems to know all about the history of the Ghost Rider. He tells him everything that happened was not a dream and that it will happen again, especially at night when he is near an evil soul. When he arrives home, Blaze finds Simpson and reveals himself as the devil’s bounty hunter. Unconvinced, she walks away in disbelief. After a brief imprisonment for the murders that Blackheart committed, Blaze kills the air angel, Abigor, and escapes from the police before returning to the caretaker, who tells him of his predecessor, Carter Slade, a Texas Ranger who hid the contract of San Venganza. Blaze returns home to find that Blackheart has killed his friend Mack and has taken Roxanne captive, threatening to kill her if Blaze does not deliver the contract. Blaze tries to use the penance stare on Blackheart, but it does not work as Blackheart has no soul to burn. Blaze returns to the caretaker, who reveals himself as Carter Slade, and obtains the contract. Slade tells Blaze that he is more powerful than his predecessors since he sold his soul for love as opposed to greed. Slade leads Blaze to San Venganza, then gives Blaze a lever-action shotgun before fading away. After killing the water angel Wallow, Blaze gives the contract to Blackheart. He quickly transforms into Ghost Rider in an Over one hundred years ago, the devil Mephistopheles sent effort to subdue Blackheart, but dawn arrives and he is rendered his bounty hunter of the damned, the Ghost Rider, to retrieve powerless. Blackheart uses the contract to absorb the thousand a document known as the contract of San Venganza, a list of souls into his body. He attempts to kill Blaze, but is distracted a thousand corrupt souls. Seeing that the contract would give when Simpson uses Blaze’s discarded shotgun to separate them. Mephistopheles the power to unleash hell on Earth, the rider After Blaze tries to kill Blackheart with the shotgun, he moves in refuses to give him the contract. and uses his penance stare to render him catatonic, burning all In 1986, Mephistopheles reaches out to 17-year-old stunt the corrupt souls within Blackheart, which is what he had hoped motorcycle rider Johnny Blaze, offering to cure his father’s cancer for. in exchange for Blaze’s soul, an offer he hastily accepts. The Mephistopheles appears and returns Blaze his soul, offering to next morning, Blaze awakes to discover that his father’s cancer take back the curse of the Ghost Rider. Determined not to make is cured, but he is killed that same day in a motorcycle stunt another deal, Blaze declines, saying that he will use his power in which he falls into the ring of fire through which he jumps. against him, and against all harm that comes to the innocent. Blaze accuses Mephistopheles of causing his father’s death, but Infuriated for being robbed of the power, Mephistopheles vows Mephistopheles considers their contract to be fulfilled and promises to make Blaze pay, but Blaze tells Mephistopheles that he is not to one day see him again. afraid. Mephistopheles then disappears, taking Blackheart’s body 21 years later, Blaze has become a famous stunt motorcycle with him. Later, Simpson tells Blaze that he got his second chance rider known for surviving numerous deadly crashes. Blaze meets before sharing a final kiss with him. Blaze then rides away on his his lifelong sweetheart Roxanne Simpson, now a news reporter, motorcycle, turning into the Ghost Rider. whom he abandoned after his father’s death. He convinces her Do you have a favorite Biker Movie we don’t have? Let us know: info@borntoride.com
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