Fairly effective little thriller.
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03/04/03
The Hitcher (1985)
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Reviews Counted:30
Fresh:19
Rotten:11
Average Rating:5.8/10
Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis: When a young man, driving to California by himself, naively picks up a hitchhiker, he gets more than he bargained for: the hitcher is a serial killer who mercilessly slashes anyone he meets,... [More]
Starring: Rutger Hauer, C. Thomas Howell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jeffrey DeMunn
Director: Robert Harmon
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Reviews for The Hitcher
A gruesome cult classic.
01/17/03
No review available.
10/03/02
No review available.
10/01/02
Creepy, moody, implausible and impossible to take your eyes off of.
08/08/02
No review available.
01/27/02
A very good cult film that has never received the mainstream respect it deserves.
02/13/01
Contrived, unbelievable, and ultimately dull thriller is one more film to waste Rutger Hauer.
01/01/00
I would have admired it more if it had found the courage to acknowledge the real relationship it was portraying between Howell and Rutger, but no: It prefers to disguise itself as a violent thriller, and on that level it is reprehensible.
01/01/00
Top CriticOK, all together now: NEVER pick up hitchhikers!
01/01/00
Alternately nail-biting and exciting
01/01/00
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