The film was met with tepid critical response and grossed about $5.8 million.[2]. Within a few days, Madden called back and told them the script was "terrific". The patrol car crashes, and Ryder disappears again. The Hitcher (1986) – Full Movie. A serial killer pins his crimes on two college students who gave him a ride. [12] Gene Siskel also gave the film zero stars, calling it "a nauseating thriller" and "a thinly veiled but more gruesome ripoff of Steven Spielberg's Duel". There are no good persons in the world, there are only persons who can control their bad/evil side and keep it "un-active", and so they can be considered "good." He finds a severed finger in his food and realizes Ryder is present. Sam Elliott was offered the role but an agreement could not be reached on his salary. In a flooded future London, Detective Harley Stone hunts a serial killer who murdered his partner, and has haunted him ever since. Display options: Also known as: Hitcher, der Highway Killer (Germany) Carretera al infierno (Spain) Hitcher (France) The Hitcher - La lunga strada della paura (Italy) 1977 Cadillac Seville. At the end of the film, the sound is made by the hero, a young man whose life has been spared so that he can become the special victim of the hitchhiker. He also wanted to work with Hauer. [9], Jennifer Jason Leigh agreed to do the film because she wanted to work with Hauer again (they co-starred in Flesh + Blood) and loved the character of Nash because "there was a real person there".[3]. [7] Furthermore, Red felt that the character should have an electronic voice box. Read Common Sense Media's The Hitcher (1986) review, age rating, and parents guide. [3], In the original script, an entire family is slaughtered in their station wagon, an eyeball is discovered inside of a hamburger, a woman is tied to a truck and a pole and then torn in half, two teenagers engage in sex, and there is a decapitation as well as several slashings, shootings and car crashes. Chased by Police and shadowed by the killer, the driver's only help comes from a truck stop waitress. Découvrez toutes les informations sur le film The Hitchhiker, les vidéos et les dernières actualités. Esteridge tells Jim that his men cannot shoot Ryder as his foot will slip off the clutch, which would cause the truck to roll and kill Nash. 8 pages of info, trailer, pictures and more. With Edmond O'Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman, José Torvay. Pictures provided by: leolito, police car fan, kooshmeister. [3] Bombyk and Ohman were worried about getting it into good enough shape to show their boss, producer Ed Feldman, and his partner, Charles Meeker, and prove to them that it was more than an exploitation film. When Jim realizes that Ryder never put on his seat belt and the car's passenger door is ajar, he shoves him out the door. It is a remake of the 1986 film of the same name starring Rutger Hauer, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and C. Thomas Howell. A blind Vietnam vet, trained as a swordfighter, comes to America and helps to rescue the son of a fellow soldier. A young man who escapes the clutches of a murderous hitchhiker is subsequently stalked by the hitcher and framed for his crimes. Why does Ryder place the coins on Halsey's eyes and under his tongue in the diner? Ryder, disappointed, releases the clutch, killing Nash. As Jim leaves his car to observe Ryder's body, Ryder jumps up, and Jim shoots him repeatedly with a shotgun. Red agreed to work with Ohman on the script until it was ready to be shown to Feldman and Meeker. After briefly considering suicide, Jim reaches a cafe, where Ryder confronts him. Even the hitcher himself doesn't give a clear answer when he is asked why he kills and does these horrific things. The film was met with tepid critical response and grossed about $5.8 million. Also, the end scene between these two protagonists, Hauer and Howell, is memorable and gorgeously shot. Chevrolet Unknown. [3] For the latter scene, Harmon just changed the body part to a finger. Never pick-up a stranger. He could not put it down and "couldn't believe the things that happened to my character in the first 12 pages. In a future where most of mankind and technology is wiped out, six people travel from place to place playing a brutal form of football with a dog skull. That kind of thing would never happen in real world, but those unrealistic scenes make this film even more nightmarish and effective. He recalled, "even the exact actions that remained in the script were described in much bloodier and gorier detail". [6] Singer mentioned Dutch actor Rutger Hauer. At the time, he was being more selective with the roles he took and heard that the script was a generic thriller. Ryder is at the wheel of one truck and threatens to tear Nash apart. Ryder shows super human powers in … It is about which side, evil or good, is one's primary personality. Was this review helpful to you? At a roadside diner, Jim meets Nash, a waitress, and calls the police. Can they be trusted now, and can he stop the terrorists? They're almost there when a cop on a motorcycle zooms past and signals them to stop. The Hitcher He later comes across the family's blood-soaked car and vomits. We celebrate the life and legacy of Rutger Hauer, the award-winning actor best known for Blade Runner and The Hitcher. So this cannot be recommended for everybody like some mainstream movie, but people with open minds and hunger for intelligent and symbolic cinema should love this film, even though it is pretty difficult to "love" ! Nick quit the C.I.A. In its original form, Bombyk found the script to be "extremely brutal and extremely gory", but he and personal manager Kip Ohman (who later became co-producers of the film) also saw in it "a level of challenge, intensity and poetry". According to him, it is an allegory in which Ryder represents evil. The consensus reads: "Its journey is never quite as revelatory as it could be, but The Hitcher stands as a white-knuckle vision of horror, bolstered by Rutger Hauer's menacing performance.”[11], Roger Ebert awarded it no stars, arguing that the identification of the film's hero with the killer is hollow because the killer has no backstory or even a motive. However, Dubrow had to go back to New York on other business and met with Fuchs. Ian October 30, 2013. Par une nuit pluvieuse il prend en auto-stop un dénommé John Ryder, un personnage étrange et inquiétant. Relieved, Jim continues on his journey. It was released in the United States on February 21, 1986. Esteridge gives Jim a ride, but Jim, believing the police cannot hold Ryder, takes Esteridge's revolver and vehicle to chase down Ryder's prison bus. As for the former, everyone at HBO/Silver Screen, except Dubrow, wanted it changed. The film is written by Eric Red whose other credits as a writer include brilliant Near Dark by Kathryn Bigelow. Soon he notices a figure standing by the side of the road raising his thumb..Our youngster unwisely stops and says the legendary line: "My mom always told not to do this." "[15] In his review for The Washington Post, Paul Attanasio wrote, "The script (by Eric Red) is laconic in a dull way, much Cain but hardly able. Bounty hunter Nick Randall (Rutger Hauer) is offered two hundred fifty thousand dollars by the C.I.A. After murdering his entire family, a man marries a widow with a teenage daughter in another town and prepares to do it all over again. A young man transporting a car to another state is stalked along the road by a cunning and relentless serial killer who eventually frames the driver for a string of murders. "The Hitcher" begins and ends with the same sound: a match being struck, flaring into flame. Stamp received a copy of the script but he turned down the role. He is very tired and almost collides with a huge truck. Once they got it in good enough shape, Ohman gave it back to Bombyk and also to David Madden, a production executive for 20th Century Fox. The hitcher, John Ryder, is brooding and evasive; when Jim passes a stranded car, however, Ryder forces his leg down on the accelerator. [3], Feldman and Meeker decided to come on board as executive producers. Jim leans against Esteridge's car and begins smoking as the sun sets. [3] When no offers came, he moved from New York City to Austin, Texas, taking a drive-away car cross-country. Jim Halsey, a young man delivering a car from Chicago to San Diego, spots a man hitchhiking in the West Texas desert and gives him a ride. At the beginning of the film, the sound is made by the villain, a hitchhiker who is a mass murderer. Directed by Carl Schenkel. When the movie is made, the country will not sleep for a week". Bombyk worked with Red via several long-distance phone calls to Texas and eventually the writer moved to Los Angeles. His name: Jim Halsey (C. Thomas Howell). [3], The film's producers then went looking for an inexpensive director. Many executives liked the script but balked at the girl being ripped apart scene. When Jim wakes, he finds the cell door unlocked and all the officers dead. A homeless vigilante blows away crooked cops, pedophile Santas, and other scumbags with his trusty pump-action shotgun. [3] The studio was not comfortable with the subject matter but felt that the writing was unique and interesting enough to give the filmmakers a letter-of-intent to distribute the film. [3], Contractually, TriStar Pictures was obligated to distribute any film by HBO/Silver Screen. The Hitcher was directed by Dave Meyers and produced by Michael Bay ’s production company Platinum Dunes. Ryder states he murdered the driver and intends to do the same to Jim, threatening him with a switchblade. Ryder kills the deputies and leaps through Jim's windshield as the bus crashes. And then, the incredible and surrealistic nightmare begins...This film is unbelievably beautifully shot and it is easy to see that Harmon was cinematographer before this directing debut. In addition, veteran character actors Billy Green Bush (known for playing ill-fated police officers in Electra Glide in Blue and Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday), Gene Davis (known for playing the naked psychopathic killer Warren Stacy in 10 to Midnight), Armin Shimerman (who would later be the voice of General Skarr in The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy), and Emmy-winner Henry Darrow, have supporting roles as police officers who pursue Jim Halsey. Tears in the Rain: Remembering Rutger Hauer, Christopher Nolan's Top 10 Favorite Movies. [4] Red had a lot of time to think about the song and it inspired ideas for the story. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? They liked the script but wondered, "how could we manage to translate it to the screen without making a slasher movie?" [3], Over the next few months, the filmmakers negotiated two key scenes in the script: the girl getting ripped apart and the eyeball in the hamburger. Michael Ironside was also considered for the role. [3] Leonard Maltin awarded the film a score of 2 1/2 out of 4 stars (his most frequently used rating), criticizing the film's violence as being "genuinely grisly and unappealing" while also stating that the film wasn't without interest. Title: [3] Unbeknownst to Hauer, Howell found him "frightening, intimidating, and that he was in a constant state of fear, almost as if he really was John Ryder and I really was Jim Halsey". The Hitchhiker est un film réalisé par René Manzor avec Jean-Claude Tran. Tense, brooding, scary -- there are plenty of words to describe 1986's superior B-movie The Hitcher. Nash appears with Jim's revolver, disarms the officers, and flees with Jim in their patrol car. Terrified, Jim asks what Ryder wants. Debby and Tony try to make Jeffrey's staged death real, but the plan backfires. Ryder is ambushing and killing other drivers, taking their vehicles and tracking Jim. Red sent him a script that was approximately 190 pages in length (one page traditionally equals one minute of screen time). The scenes are very similar in mood to Kathryn Bigelow's Near Dark which has the unforgettable music by Tangerine Dream, and both films are scripted by Eric Red, as mentioned earlier. A remake of the same name, produced by Michael Bay and directed by Dave Meyers, was released on January 19, 2007, which starred Sean Bean as John Ryder, Zachary Knighton as Jim Halsey, and Neal McDonough as Esteridge. [3] Madden also admitted that he would have "argued to soften the movie. It's the motivation for the hero. The Hitcher box art. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. [3] Feldman and Meeker optioned the film themselves, paying Red $25,000. The Hitcher is a 1986 American road thriller film directed by Robert Harmon and written by Eric Red. It stars Rutger Hauer as a seemingly suicidal and homicidal maniac and C. Thomas Howell as his primary victim. [16] In his review for The Globe and Mail, Jay Scott described the film as a "slasher movie about gay panic, a nasty piece of homophobic angst for the age of AIDS". [10], On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, The Hitcher holds a 62% approval rating based on 37 critic reviews, with an average rating of 6/10. While transporting a car from Chicago to San Diego, Jim Halsey (C. Thomas Howell) picks up a hitchhiker named John Ryder (Rutger Hauer), who claims to be a serial killer. [19] Hauer said critics misunderstood the film. Le Voyageur (The Hitchhiker littéralement L'Auto-stoppeur) est une série télévisée franco-canado-américaine en 85 épisodes de 26 minutes, créée par Riff Markowitz, Lewis Chesler et Richard Rothstein et diffusée du 23 novembre 1983 au 12 mai 1987 sur HBO, puis du 22 mai 1989 au 22 février 1991 sur USA Network, et au Canada sur First Choice. Struggling writer Jeffrey Hunt fakes his own death in order to achieve literary immortality. Jim Halsey, a young man delivering a car from Chicago to San Diego, spots a man hitchhiking in the West Texas desert and gives him a ride. [8], For the role of Jim Halsey, the producers mentioned Matthew Modine, Tom Cruise, and Emilio Estevez. I knew I wanted to do it". [3] Ohman and Red spent six months reworking the script, removing most of what Ohman felt was repetitive violence. At an abandoned gas station, Ryder corners Jim but simply tosses him the keys he took from Jim's car. By the end, you're willing to forgive Ryder his worst if someone would just change the light bulb". TV Shows . It rains hard. Roy's Motel and Cafe, Amboy, California, USA. [3], In early drafts of the script, John Ryder had been described as skeletal in nature and so actors like David Bowie, Sting, Sam Shepard, Harry Dean Stanton, and Terence Stamp were mentioned. In medieval Europe, a young girl from a noble family is obsessed with her captors - commoners. After pointing out Jim's revolver is unloaded, Ryder leaves him several bullets and departs. The film's budget was set at $5.8 million. [3] The studio even suggested softening her death by having a funeral. The hitchhiker doubts that, so, once they hit a straight patch of road, the narrator steps on the gas. The woman that Jim Halsey met on the bus, why did she help him? [14] Variety called it "a highly unimaginative slasher ... with a script that has many holes. This would allow them to get financing and then, once filming was completed, the studio would reimburse them for the budget. What Kind of Fear Is Your Favorite Horror? Get this one. Driving someone else's car from Chicago, Illinois to San Diego, California, a young man named Jim Halsey (C. Thomas Howell) picks up a hitchhiker with a taste for murder. After a police car pulls over the bus, Jim surrenders, and the furious officers accuse him of killing their colleagues and attempt to kill him. [3] It would not be easy to convince him because it was not the kind of material that he liked and he did not want to make it. Jim boards a bus, where he meets Nash and attempts to explain his situation. The Hitcher (1986) Synopsis. The Hitchhiker (also known as Deadly Nightmares in the United Kingdom and Le Voyageur in France) is a mystery horror anthology television series. Take a look ahead at some of our most anticipated superhero series arriving in 2021 and beyond. At least two studios were willing to consider making it but only if Harmon was replaced. because he couldn't trust them. [3] The one reservation Hauer had was with the scene where the girl is torn apart and Feldman told him, "you are the bad guy and you'll be the baddest bad guy there ever was! Created by Lewis Chesler, Riff Markowitz, Richard Rothstein. I couldn't refuse it". Fictional stories are told in this television series by The Hitchhiker. It stars Rutger Hauer as a seemingly suicidal and homicidal maniac and C. Thomas Howell as his primary victim. Jim searches for her and is discovered by Esteridge, who takes Jim to two trucks with Nash tied between them with a gag in her mouth. While driving from one city to another, he got the idea for a film from The Doors song "Riders on the Storm". It also contained a bonus disc with special features that are not found anywhere else and a booklet, containing photos and a mini-essay on the film itself. After Ryder leaves with a trucker, Jim encounters him again at another gas station, where the truck nearly runs him down as it crashes into the pumps. My opinion is that the hitcher is a double side of Howell's personality (everyman's personality) and he is the bad and evil side of human beings' nature. During his seven-month stay in Austin, he drove a taxi cab and wrote The Hitcher. When I said earlier "difficult art" I meant that due to the film's violence (there is not plenty, but that what is on screen is brutal and disturbing) this may be too hard to take and understand for most of the viewers. It's cheating the audience". [17] A rare positive review came from Newsweek magazine's Jack Kroll who called it, "an odyssey of horror and suspense that's as tightly wound as a garrote and as beautifully designed as a guillotine". Brilliant 1986 original film that I saw as a kid on vhs then dvd and until it's released on Blu Ray will enjoy it on dvd, and the latest upscaling blu ray players do a good job improving dvd quality. After a daring escape, Jim hopes to never see Ryder again. The Hitcher is a 1986 thriller that follows a young man (C. Thomas Howell) who agrees to give a mysterious stranger (Rutger Hauer) a ride with horrific results.A DTV sequel, The Hitcher II: I've Been Waiting was released in 2003 with C. Thomas Howell returning and a remake was released in 2007. He replies, "I want you to stop me." [3] Script development executive David Bombyk received a copy of Red's letter and was intrigued by the description of the film. The Hitcher, Movie, 1986 . There were arguments about how the girl should die and Dubrow remembers, "they were trying to make her death not horrible, when – by the nature of the script – it had to be". [20] However, Ebert wrote that "I could see that the film was meant as an allegory, not a documentary. The Hitcher -The 1986 Thriller movie featuring Rutger Hauer and C. Thomas Howell at the award winning 80s Movies Rewind. The hitcher is pure evil and no one can change his thoughts and mind, because evil cannot be changed or turned into "good." Two American college students on a walking tour of Britain are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists. Henry Darrow, ‘The High Chaparral’ Actor, Dies at 87, ‘Wyrmwood’ Director to Adapt Vampire Thriller From ‘Sandman Slim’ Author (Exclusive), Mark Hamill and Eric Roberts Hitch a Ride: A VHS-Era Double Bill. With Rutger Hauer, C. Thomas Howell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jeffrey DeMunn. When he sees Ryder in the back of a family car, Jim tries to warn them but becomes involved in an accident. Skip to Content ... After Jim summons the courage to eject Ryder from his car, he suddenly finds himself encountering the mad hitchhiker again on the road. Meeker said. [3] When she went to work for Silver Screen Partners/Home Box Office, she contacted Feldman, a former employer, and asked for a copy of the script. The hitcher, John Ryder, is brooding and evasive. Menu. I will definitely not spoil how this one ends, but at the end, the main character is much more wiser and knows that human beings and thus himself are not as simple as one might think..There is no point in describing the greatest scenes in the film because the whole film is so great. The following weapons were used in the film The Hitcher: Fox ultimately rejected the project over the budget and saw it as a "straight-out horror movie". The film spawned a sequel in 2003, with Howell reprising his role as Jim Halsey in The Hitcher II: I've Been Waiting. The police arrest Jim, as Ryder has framed Jim for his murders. He replies, "I want you to stop me." He will kill the youngster no matter what and no one can tell why. There were some people at the studio who thought it was pretty gross". A male prison escapee heads for his hidden loot electronically attached to a female prisoner. Up ahead: a stranger, thumbing a ride. to get the terrorist behind the bombing of a Los Angeles, California movie theater. The series later moved to the USA Network from 1989 to 1991. You’ve probably heard of him, Rutger Hauer. Watch The Hitcher (1986) - Бойовик, Жахи, Трилер Movie: On a stormy night, young Jim, who transports a luxury car from Chicago to California to deliver it to its owner, feeling tired and sleepy, picks up a mysterious hitchhiker, who has appeared out of nowhere, thinking that a good conversation will help him not to fall asleep. His letter concluded: "It (the story) grabs you by the guts and does not let up and it does not let go. Chrysler M60 'Patton' 1981 Dodge Diplomat. None, however, apply to this remake. [3] Still photographer-turned-cameraman Robert Harmon was given a copy of the script by his agent and early the next morning called his agent and told him that he wanted to do it. They hope one day to play in the league in a city. Each story is usually a mysterious thriller. The Hitcher tells the story of an ordinary young man, who is taking his friend's car to other state/destination through the empty and deserted roads of America. At a gas station, he sees two officers, takes them hostage, and speaks to Captain Esteridge, the officer in charge of the manhunt for Jim, on the radio. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. His unfaithful wife Debby has been having an adulterous affair with Jeffrey's publicist and best friend Tony Lynch. You can't show all the killings we showed and then not show the main one. The Hitcher is a 2007 American road thriller film starring Sean Bean, Sophia Bush and Zachary Knighton. Use the HTML below. And Harmon and his cinematographer, John Seale, have shot the movie in such brown murk, you can hardly make anything out. He found that the "elements of the song – a killer on the road in a storm plus the cinematic feel of the music – would make a terrific opening for a film". Ryder calmly states he murdered the driver and intends to do the same to Jim. A small-town farmer's son reluctantly joins a traveling group of vampires after he is bitten by a beautiful drifter. Terrified, Jim asks what Ryder wants. 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Couple of scenes are totally outstanding in their virtuosity such as the scene where two police cars are destroyed by a shotgun blast and they fly and crash in a slow motion. Two fishermen pick up a psychotic escaped convict who tells them that he … "[3] Red mentioned to Hauer that he had Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards in mind when he wrote the part of Ryder. Not the one with Sean Bean on it. The Police, unaware of the real murderer (John Ryder (Rutger Hauer)), blame Jim. The filmmakers refused to back down and Silver Screen executives finally relented at the last minute. [3], Independent producer Donna Dubrow heard about The Hitcher while working on another film and to her it sounded like "Duel with a person". The Hitcher is one of the most beautiful terror films I've ever witnessed.The Hitcher is not a realistic film and the hitcher character played by Rutger Hauer is not a realistic human being as he can follow the young protagonist (C.J Howell) anywhere and always knows where he is. The Hitcher (1986) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. "[12], The Hitcher has been released on VHS, laserdisc and DVD. As Jim flees, Ryder causes the station to explode. [5] In 1983, he sent a letter to several Hollywood producers asking if he could send them a copy of the screenplay for The Hitcher. They needed Fuchs' approval to get the film made. When Jim passes a stranded car, Ryder forces his leg down on the accelerator. She submitted it to her boss, HBO senior vice-president Maurice Singer. Although appearing in 1080p high definition for the first time, this release is transferred and remastered from 35mm film, since the original negative has presumably been lost[citation needed] and therefore this edition suffers from texture loss, warm tint filters and regular white-outs.[22]. He liked it and sent it back to New York to be read by Michael Fuchs, HBO chairman and chief operating officer. The music by Mark Isham is also extremely important element and with the exceptional camerawork, these are the greatest elements in this piece of difficult art. The Hitcher (1986) was a directing debut for Robert Harmon, who had previously worked as a cameraman. When she returned to L.A., Singer told her that Fuchs agreed to make the film but with the stipulation that the girl would not be torn apart and the violence would be reduced. As the police chase after them, Ryder joins the chase and murders the officers by causing a massive car accident. 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