The film’s screenwriter was inspired while listening to a song on The Doors’ 1971 studio album, “L.A. Woman.” ...

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 ...

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 ...

Way back in ’86, a violent little movie called “The Hitcher” came along and pretty much ended hitchhiking as we know it. The almost-scene-for-scene remake is the same: Who would pick up a hitchhiker ...

Scary pictures, when remade, rarely live up the original. I mean, why else would filmmakers tackle remaking something that was already sufficiently scary or terrorizing in the first place? OK, maybe ...

While driving through the New Mexico Desert during a rainy night, college students Jim Halsey and his girlfriend Grace Andrews give a ride to a hitchhiker. While in their car, the stranger proves to ...

While on a road trip to get to their unknown Spring Break destination, college students Grace (Sophia Bush) and Jim (Zachary Knighton) cross paths with John Ryder (Sean Bean), a man who needs a lift ...

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 ...

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 ...