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 ...

Since its release in 1986, Robert Harmon’s The Hitcher has been on quite the journey. Initially panned by many critics, the film is now seen as an undisputed cult classic, featuring one of the late ...

As screenwriter Eric Red drove through the Texas badlands, The Doors’ song “Riders on the Storm” popped into his mind. Inspired in part by the hitchhiker Billy Cook, who brutally murdered six people ...

Evidence that Hollywood is now scraping the absolute bottom of the barrel: “The Hitcher” is a remake of a 1986 Rutger Hauer movie. Not only a Rutger Hauer movie, but a mediocre Rutger Hauer movie. In ...

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 ...

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 factoid at the beginning of producer Michael Bay’s latest useless horror remake informs us that “42,000 people are killed on highways each year.” But if there’s one thing that can be learned from ...