Like human hitchhikers, ticks need to find the best place to get a lift. But if you pick up a tick, it could drink your blood ...

Horror is making a comeback right now, with indie horror proving particularly successful thanks to films like Obsession, Iron Lung and Backrooms. It continues a trend from the past decade of new and ...

Greetings from Lithuania. "The Hitcher" (1986) is an action suspense thriller that reminded me of "Duel". It is very well made thriller that I was engaged from beginning till end. Story is simple yet ...

Robert Harmon’s action horror movie “The Hitcher” was both a critical and commercial flop when it was released. Critics deemed it underwhelming and, having cost $7.9 million to produce, it only ...

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 ...

The short list of '70s-'80s horror hits that haven't been remade just got shorter with the arrival of "The Hitcher," a pointless retread of the 1986 cult favorite that, to be frank, really wasn't all ...

When The Hitcher hit theatres in 1986, audiences were introduced to a new kind of horror antagonist. John Ryder, the hitchhiking killer stalking a young motorist across the highways of West Texas, was ...

Rutger Hauer’s bedraggled, trench-coated hitchhiker John Ryder is everything the Joker always wanted to be, just without the film bro philosophising and cosplay-friendly get-up. A true agent of chaos ...

After what seems like an eternal wait, Robert Harmon’s 1986 cult classic ‘The Hitcher’ has finally been given a Blu-ray release. And not just any old Blu-ray release, but a spectacular 4K UHD from ...

Starring C. Thomas Howell, Rutger Hauer, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jeffrey DeMunn, and Armin Shimerman. A young man picks up a hitchhiker whilst crossing the desert, only to be unable to escape from the ...

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 ...