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 The Hitcher (DVD)
Description: Genre: Crime & Thriller / Director: Dave Meyers / Actors: Sean Bean, Skip O'Brien ... / DVD released 01 October, 2007 ... more  The Hitcher (DVD) ... at Universal Pictures UK / Features of the DVD: PAL / 20 years is a long time in the lifeline of movie plot-arc necessities. It's also a pretty big generational stretch in the lives of audience demographics, which may be part of the reason the producers of this remake of the 1986 cult horror classic felt the need to update the original spare mano-a-mano backbone into a girl-and-mano-a-mano. The Twilight Zone-ish setup is still a pretty neat idea: regular guy on a lonely highway picks up a hitchhiker who turns out to be a psychopathic killer with some very unsettling supernatural might. Fans of the original could hardly hope for a demon villain with such creepy charisma as Rutger Hauer. But Sean Bean makes a respectable replacement, with his understated stare and stewing rage that brings a new brand of hair-raising devilry to the role of hitcher John Ryder. The lone "good guy" originated by a boyish C. Thomas Howell has been upgraded to a lovesick couple. In a twisty touch, Jim (Zachary Knighton) and Grace (Sophia Bush, of One Tree Hill fame) trade gender roles, with Jim turning wimpy and feminine and Grace becoming a shotgun-toting testoster-ette. The body count's a little higher and the gore factor increased by the power of 20 (years), but some of the original film's set pieces remain much the same-- body-snapping case in point being an 18-wheeler being put to use as a old-fashioned torture rack. While the original might have placed a bit more emphasis on the philosophical and existential elements of evil passing from soul to soul, it wasn't exactly an intellectual thrill ride. Likewise, 2007's The Hitcher is no art film, and it can't be faulted for choosing fright and might for audiences that are always looking for bigger and more elaborate splats for their horror entertainment buck. And if you stick out your thumb for this one, expect plenty of splat. --Ted FryNewest Review: ... family car and they later be found dead, the couple find the dead family with the driver still alive, so they decide to take ... more ... him to a restaurant to gain help but the police blame the couple for his murder. They later find that the police have been killed and have been released from prison because the police guarding it have been killed, so from this point on John plays a game of hide and seek with the couple.
It has a very interesting story to it because not many people have done something like this before which makes it all the more better, It is a remake from the 1986 version. I personally liked the original better because it was mo...more |
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The Hitcher [HD DVD] [2007]
Release Date: 2007-10-01, Rating Suitable for 18 years and over, |
£ 19.99 |
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The Hitcher (DVD): Don't ever hitch-hike (663 words)
by vernonpresley - written on 28.12.07 (Very useful, 41 readings)
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Driving a car for someone 2000 miles across America, from Chicago to San Diego, Jim Halsey is falling asleep at the wheel, so when he sees a hitchhiker on the side of the road he decides to go against his mother's advice and pick him up. The hitchhiker says his name is John Ryder but he refuses to give any other information, including where he is heading. Ryder forces Jim to speed past an abandoned vehicle at the side of the road, and this sparks Jim to be suspicious of his passenger. As a result he stops the car and asks him to leave the vehicle. Ryder refuses to do so and forces Jim to carry on driving. Ryder explains that he killed the driver of the ...
I'm Going To Sit Here And You're Going To Drive (1652 words)
by Nomad - written on 19.07.03 (Very useful, 144 readings)
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My name is Adrian, and I'm a movieholic. In recent years I have managed to cope with my addiction, not by giving up films completely (as the shelves currently straining under my DVD collection will attest to) but just by slowing my consumption down somewhat. There was a period back in the mists of time when, as a student, I had way too much free time on my hands and, looking for some cheap entertainment, I started to frequent a number of local video hire establishments. This addiction grew and soon the new releases section was not enough. I'd venture further into the stores until I discovered what I was after. Call them what you will - bottom shelf, straight ...
The Hitcher (DVD): My Mother Told Me Never To Do This (Movie Only) (1145 words)
by marandina - written on 21.12.07 (Very useful, 116 readings)
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One of the great things about the Christmas break is that the tv schedules are choc full of decent movies providing a great chance to re-visit old favorites and hopefully encounter new movie experiences. "The Hitcher" is a horror classic released in 1986, directed by Robert Harmon, written by Eric Red and starring Rutger Hauer and C.Thomas Howell which was eventually re-made in 2007. With it being shown on digital channels right now, I gleefully sat through it again the other night. Jim Halsey (C. Thomas Howell) is driving on the open highway, transporting a car to San Diego. Suffering with fatigue from the journey and having narrowly avoided a ...
The Hitcher (DVD) : I Feel Nothingfrom plipplop
19.06.2007
The Hitcher (DVD) : Listen to your mother....from raynor238
19.06.2001
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