The Hitcher (1986) (original) (raw)
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Original title
The Hitcher
Year
1986
Running time
93 min.
Country
United States
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Genre
Thriller. Horror. Action | Road Movie. Serial Killers. Slasher
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Synopsis
C. Thomas Howell plays a guy taking a drive-away car from Chicago to San Diego. On a whim, in the rain, and against his better judgment, he picks up a hitchhiker (Rutger Hauer). The hitcher quickly admits to being a murdering psychopath, and once Howell finally gets him out of his car, he is pursued with all the vengeance of the ancient furies.
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Critics' reviews
- "An odyssey of horror and suspense that's as tightly wound as a garrote and as beautifully designed as a guillotine"
- "Sadistic and graphically, pointlessly violent, it may leave most sickened. But it is also a distressingly effective thriller (...) And here's betting you'll check the back seat of your car after you leave."
- "A nauseating thriller that reaches down from the screen and defies you to stay in the theater to see what desecration of the human body it will present next"
- "[A] sleek, dream-like thriller about a naïve college boy who crosses paths with devil in the flesh"
- "A slasher movie about gay panic, a nasty piece of homophobic angst for the age of AIDs"
- "A stunner of unrelenting tension interrupted by action, violence and gore."
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