This is the genius of underground horror filmmaker, Drew Rist at what may lead to a rather promising career in this wonderful business of horror films. While this film pays its much needed homage to predecessor films like it in the past, and Fangoria Magazine, its sponsor, It casually and surprisingly easily maintains an impressive sense of originality and cleverness that you honestly can't find anywhere else. It far surpasses any other film accompanying it on the "Fangoria Blood Drive" DVD and is most certainly something not to be missed for both horror and underground filmmakers alike! If you can find it, as it is very difficult to spot, pick up the "Fangoria Blood Drive" DVD and enjoy this film as well as the other films on there. Some of them are good. "Mr. Eryams" was okay. And "Song of the Dead" was just brilliant. Look for the full-length horror-comedy-musical version coming sometime in 2005 or 2006. That's my two cents. I'll shut up, now.
2 Reviews
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Michael_Elliott13 October 2008
Hitch, The (2004)
*** 1/2 (out of 4)
A serial killer is stalking Texas but a driver (Bryan Massey) goes ahead and picks up a hitch-hiker (Luisa McDaniel). This film won the Palm D'Gore in Fangoria so I thought I'd give it a view and it was certainly worth it. The film written and directed by Drew Rist was highly entertaining and contained everything a good horror film should and that's atmosphere, suspense, gore and a nice twist. The suspense comes from not knowing if the driver or the hitch-hiker is the killer. The atmosphere comes from some very good cinematography and lighting. The gore is certainly there with some rather graphic violence. The twist at the end is a clever one and works very nicely. Both Massey and McDaniel deliver fine performances as well.
*** 1/2 (out of 4)
A serial killer is stalking Texas but a driver (Bryan Massey) goes ahead and picks up a hitch-hiker (Luisa McDaniel). This film won the Palm D'Gore in Fangoria so I thought I'd give it a view and it was certainly worth it. The film written and directed by Drew Rist was highly entertaining and contained everything a good horror film should and that's atmosphere, suspense, gore and a nice twist. The suspense comes from not knowing if the driver or the hitch-hiker is the killer. The atmosphere comes from some very good cinematography and lighting. The gore is certainly there with some rather graphic violence. The twist at the end is a clever one and works very nicely. Both Massey and McDaniel deliver fine performances as well.
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