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SCARECROW VIDEO PRESENTS THE HITCHER
1986
Director
Robert Harmon
Starring
Rutger Hauer
C. Thomas Howell
Jeffrey DeMunn
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Runtime
97 minutes
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SCARECROW VIDEO and VIVA PHYSICAL MEDIA invite you to celebrate their 100th episode with a special screening of THE HITCHER!
"My mother told me never to do this." With one of the great first lines in horror history, C. Thomas Howell opens the door of his car to a hitchhiking Rutger Hauer, and so begins an odyssey of terror through the stark American Southwest.
A philosophical western-noir-action-slasher, THE HITCHER is a powerhouse highpoint of 1980s genre cinema as Hauer relentlessly pursues Howell down the desert highways...not to kill him, necessarily, but to bring out something dark buried deep inside of him. Hauer is a slimy, almost supernatural force of pure random cruelty and destruction that the protagonists are forced to manically react to in one insane action setpiece after another. It stands as one of the most sadistically satisfying cat-and-mouse road thrillers ever made and the movie's commitment to dispatching vehicles in wildly spectacular ways is downright heroic.
"My mother told me never to do this." With one of the great first lines in horror history, C. Thomas Howell opens the door of his car to a hitchhiking Rutger Hauer, and so begins an odyssey of terror through the stark American Southwest.
A philosophical western-noir-action-slasher, THE HITCHER is a powerhouse highpoint of 1980s genre cinema as Hauer relentlessly pursues Howell down the desert highways...not to kill him, necessarily, but to bring out something dark buried deep inside of him. Hauer is a slimy, almost supernatural force of pure random cruelty and destruction that the protagonists are forced to manically react to in one insane action setpiece after another. It stands as one of the most sadistically satisfying cat-and-mouse road thrillers ever made and the movie's commitment to dispatching vehicles in wildly spectacular ways is downright heroic.