The Hitcher
Jim Halsey and his girlfriend Grace Andrews give a ride to the hitchhiker John Ryder. But, their pleasure trip soon turns into a waking nightmare. The initial encounters with Ryder are increasingly off-putting for Grace and Jim, and they bravely fight back when he ambushes them. But they are truly blindsided when he implicates them in a horrific slaying and continues to shadow them.
8 July 1982, Pasadena, California, USA
20 August 1950, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
18 September 1974, Topeka, Kansas, USA
20 April 1964, Santa Monica, California, USA
17 April 1959, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK
25 October 1978, Alexandria, Virginia, USA
29 December 1960, Waco, Texas, USA
November 2, 1984 in Norwood, Massachusetts, USA
9 July 1978, Downey, California, USA
13 February 1966, Dorchester, Massachusetts, USA
July 28, 2008
The recent assembly-line remaking of recognizable horror titles continues with The Hitcher, a dreary updating of the 1986 Rutger Hauer thriller.
May 31, 2007
Bloated, boring and over-explained.
January 22, 2007
[Grace, played by Sophia Bush] can't go six blocks without having to pee, and we're supposed to believe she knows how to fire a Colt 45 and a shotgun?
July 14, 2008
The new version is an adequate technical exercise ... but the attempts at 'originality' undermine whatever meager integrity the original possessed.
August 28, 2015
If you can't improve upon your original in some small way, then you're simply churning out assembly-line product for a gradually more disinterested fan-base.
August 22, 2007
[It's] cheerfully in touch with its own brainlessness.
February 03, 2007
Eric Red's sturdy genre script from 1986 has been diluted in the worst way possible.
July 06, 2010
Despite its Playboy Playmate heroine and corny-as-hell climax, The Hitcher is still more engrossing than most of the other horror redos unleashed on the youth market of late. I'm talkin' to you, Grudge 2.
June 25, 2007
While this new Hitcher has its moments, it just doesn't make for as scary or interesting a ride as its predecessor.
January 25, 2007
... about all the movie is effective at is insulting the audience.
July 21, 2007
For my taste, it was better off left dead, roadkill on the cinematic highway.
February 03, 2007
Don't even think of stopping.
