The Hitcher (1986) is a horrifying thriller that follows Jim Halsey as he picks up a hitchhiker named John Ryder on his way to San Diego, turning his journey into a nightmare. The movie was directed ...

Christopher Nolan is the biggest director in the world at the moment. He was already celebrated for movies like Memento, Inception, and his Dark Knight trilogy, but this past year further cemented his ...

And make no mistake, The Hitcher is a monster of a movie - not just in its violence and dark psychology, but in the multiplicitous depths of its thematic content. Ryder's illusiveness lends the ...

Rutger Hauer’s bedraggled, trench-coated hitchhiker John Ryder is everything the Joker always wanted to be, just without the film bro philosophising and cosplay-friendly get-up. A true agent of chaos ...

THE original 1986 version of The Hitcher, written by Eric Red, contrived a nerve-shredding game of cat and mouse between a driver and a psychotic drifter. Rutger Hauer's riveting performance as the ...

When C Thomas Howell utters the words "My mother told me to never do this", you know Rutger Hauer isn't going to give hitchhikers a good name. Once in the car, Rutger proves the ultimate backseat ...

All style and no content isn’t quite an accurate description of The Hitcher, but it comes close. You can’t say that a movie in which people are dismembered, shot, set on fire and torn to pieces has no ...

Every now and then, I'll come across something I like to call a "rabbit hole" movie - a film that sinks its hooks into you so immediately and with such venom that you can't help but fall under its ...

"The Hitcher" fails to make much of an impression. Typically, the cult classic 1986 original is gutted of all originality, sexual ambiguity and tension, leaving behind a generic chase between blandly ...

Starring Sophia Bush, Zachary Knighton, and Sean Bean. Rated 18A. Back in 1986, when many Vancouverites were preoccupied with the pricey pomp of Expo, a nasty little horror flick called The Hitcher ...

Acclaimed music video and commercials helmer Dave Meyers makes his feature directorial debut on Rogue Pictures' The Hitcher, a remake of the 1986 cult classic that starred C. Thomas Howell, Rutger ...