The Hitcher Reviews

Spare and engrossing original road slaughterfest.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

An uncanny frisson, plus a road of endless curves

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Feature debuts don't come much better than director Robert Harmon and screenwriter Eric Red's sleek, dream-like thriller about a naïve college boy who crosses paths with devil in the flesh after taking a wrong turn on some lost highway.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

A highly unimaginative slasher that keeps the tension going with a massacre about every 15 minutes.

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Without the original film's subtext of male bonding gone awry, nothing here has a shred of psychological resonance.

Full Review | Original Score: D

A partir de um conceito simples, o diretor cria tensão e transforma seu vilão (muito bem vivido por Hauer) em uma figura quase alegórica.

| Original Score: 4/5

It's a highly competent sick-fright version of the evergreen chase formula.

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Rutger Hauer is so menacing as the title fiend that you'll never pick up a hitchhiker. An absolutely relentless horror-thriller.

| Original Score: 3.5/4

...essentially entertaining throughout...

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

This film is the reason Rutger Hauer is still a name that movie fans know.

| Original Score: 4/5

Hauer's lunatic performance is the only thing that keeps The Hitcher from completely running off the road.

Full Review | Original Score: C

Pretty nifty little thriller that falters at the end.

| Original Score: 3/5

Effective '80s horror movie. A relentless villain and some horrific scenes.

| Original Score: 4/5

Mr. Hauer, who has reportedly vowed not to play any more villains or crackpots, is probably making the right decision, if this is any measure of the sort of role that comes his way.

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It's like a sadistic version of Duel, instead of a semi you get Hauer in all his creepy manic splendor.

| Original Score: 4/5

Fairly effective little thriller.

| Original Score: 3/5

A gruesome cult classic.

| Original Score: 3/5

Creepy, moody, implausible and impossible to take your eyes off of.

| Original Score: 4/5

Contrived, unbelievable, and ultimately dull thriller is one more film to waste Rutger Hauer.

Full Review | Original Score: -2 out of -4..+4

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 0/4