The Hitchhiker (2007)

Four young women driving across the desert to Las Vegas have their road trip turned upside-down when they pick up a handsome, seemingly-friendly hitchhiker. When their car breaks down near a roadside motel in the middle of nowhere, they find themselves trapped with a woman-hating, masochistic killer.

Director:

Leigh Scott

Writers:

Jeshua De Horta (screenplay), Leigh Scott,

Stars:

Jeff Denton, Sarah Lieving, Shaley Scott

Cast

Cast overview:
Jeff Denton	...	Jack
Sarah Lieving	...	Melinda
Shaley Scott	...	Denise
Sarah Hall	...	Patty
Jessica Bork	...	Krista
Alexandra Boylan	...	Jennifer
Griff Furst	...	Paul
James Ferris	...	Steve
Dane Hanson	...	Felix
David Shick	...	Jenkins
Michael Tower	...	Ferrati
Leigh Scott	...	Doug
Dean N. Arevalo	...	Cliff (as Dean Arevalo)
Erica Roby	...	Lindsey

Storyline

Four young women driving across the desert to Las Vegas have their road trip turned upside-down when they pick up a handsome, seemingly-friendly hitchhiker. When their car breaks down near a roadside motel in the middle of nowhere, they find themselves trapped with a woman-hating, masochistic killer.

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Plot Keywords:

gore | blood | female nudity | murder | violence | 

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Genres:

Horror | Thriller

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

5 March 2007 (USA)

Filming Locations:

California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$500,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Asylum, The, Global Asylum, The

Technical Specs

Runtime:

86 min

Sound Mix:

DTS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Goofs

When the girls come back to the hotel room to kill Jack, the plastic they used to suffocate him was pulled up over half his face, yet in the next scene, the plastic is fully covering his face.

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Connections

References The Sopranos (1999)

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Soundtracks

"Salsa Mania"
Written and Performed by Leigh Scott

User Reviews

For The Asylum, it's not too bad but is still lacking in a number of areas

When I saw that The Hitchhiker was made by The Asylum, I immediately thought "Oh no, here we go again". But I watched it to give it a benefit of the doubt, and while for The Asylum it is not so bad The Hitchhiker is still lacking in a lot of areas. I'll give it some credit, Jeff Denton is quite good as the villain and it is not too cheap visually having some decent scenery and effects and the editing is not as choppy as feared. On the other hand, the dialogue is horrendously bad, the characters are undeveloped clichés and the story is painfully predictable and severely lacking in any kind of suspense. The rapes and gore are nowhere near harrowing enough, with too much of the former and not enough of the latter. The ending is far too jumpy and rushed and doesn't feel rounded off satisfactorily. Apart from Denton, the acting is poor, I didn't get any sense of terror from either of the women. So on the whole, lacking but a marginal improvement on the general standard of Asylum's movies. 4/10 Bethany Cox