The Hitcher (1986)
When young Jim Halsey stops to pick up a muderous hitchhiker, he opens the door to terrible evil. He is subsequently stalked, framed for the hitcher's crimes, and has his life made into hell by the same man he rejected.
7 December 1966, Los Angeles, California, USA
7 November 1935, Montgomery, Alabama, USA
23 December 1957, Summitville, Indiana, USA
12 June 1946, Perth, Perthshire, Scotland, UK
23 January 1944, Breukelen, Utrecht, Netherlands
5 February 1962, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
5 November 1949, Lakewood, New Jersey, USA
1 October 1938, Los Angeles, California, USA
1 June 1950, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
15 September 1933, New York City, New York, USA
16 May 1949, Orange, California, USA
25 April 1947, Buffalo, New York, USA
11 April 1914, East Orange, New Jersey, USA
February 22, 2007
Without the original film's subtext of male bonding gone awry, nothing here has a shred of psychological resonance.
February 09, 2006
It's a highly competent sick-fright version of the evergreen chase formula.
December 15, 2010
Spare and engrossing original road slaughterfest.
April 29, 2006
A partir de um conceito simples, o diretor cria tensão e transforma seu vilão (muito bem vivido por Hauer) em uma figura quase alegórica.
February 12, 2010
An uncanny frisson, plus a road of endless curves
March 26, 2009
A highly unimaginative slasher that keeps the tension going with a massacre about every 15 minutes.
May 20, 2003
Mr. Hauer, who has reportedly vowed not to play any more villains or crackpots, is probably making the right decision, if this is any measure of the sort of role that comes his way.
August 30, 2009
Feature debuts don't come much better than director Robert Harmon and screenwriter Eric Red's sleek, dream-like thriller about a naïve college boy who crosses paths with devil in the flesh after taking a wrong turn on some lost highway.
October 02, 2005
...essentially entertaining throughout...
August 02, 2014
A cosmic horror film drawn out of a psychological thriller.
October 10, 2005
Rutger Hauer is so menacing as the title fiend that you'll never pick up a hitchhiker. An absolutely relentless horror-thriller.
January 01, 2000
I would have admired it more if it had found the courage to acknowledge the real relationship it was portraying between Howell and Rutger, but no: It prefers to disguise itself as a violent thriller, and on that level it is reprehensible.
