The Hitchhiker (2007)

Director:

Leigh Scott

Writers:

Jeshua De Horta (screenplay)
Leigh Scott (writer)

Release Date:

5 March 2007 (USA)

Genre:

Horror | Thriller

Plot:

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. |

Plot Keywords:

Female Nudity

Cast

Sarah Lieving	...	Melinda
Jeff Denton	...	Jack
James C. Morris	...	The Hitchhiker
Shaley Scott	...	Denise
Jessica Bork	...	Krista
Sarah Hall	...	Patty
Alexandra Boylan	...	Jennifer
James Ferris	...	Steve
Leigh Scott	...	Doug
Dane Hanson	...	Felix
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Dean N. Arevalo	...	Doug
Griff Furst	...	Paul
Erica Roby	...	Lindsey
David Shick	...	Jenkins
Michael Tower	...	Ferrati

Runtime:

USA:89 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS

Filming Locations:

Pearblossom, California, USA

Company:

Asylum, The

Goofs:

Continuity: 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.

Movie Connections:

References "The Sopranos" (1999)

Just another crazy hitchhiker movie

This movie is watchable, but nothing special. Four girls on a road trip to Vegas foolishly decide to pick up a hitchhiker (because he is cute). They all end up staying the night at a motel in the middle of nowhere, and the hitchhiker's psychotic issues with women become apparent.

The characters are clichés--there is a married, responsible woman; a slutty party girl; an unsure bride-to-be; and a man-hater who just got dumped. The hitchhiker is genuinely nice until he goes crazy.

There's not nearly enough gore, and way too much rape. I enjoy slasher horror/thrillers a lot, and this one did nothing for me. The ending was just as lame as the rest of the movie.

On the positive side, the actors did a great job with that they had to work with. The dialogue isn't awful, and overall I was impressed with the cast, having never seen or heard of any of them before. And the plot wasn't out of the realm of possibility (although I really doubt any woman in this day and age would pick up a hitchhiker--no matter how attractive he is), so I wasn't groaning that things didn't make sense.

Overall, "The Hitchhiker" was well-acted and made sense, but wasn't very interesting. There are a lot of better movies in the same genre that I would recommend over this one ("Rest Stop," "The Devil's Rejects," "Texas Chainsaw Massacre," even "The Hitcher" remake). Do yourself a favor and skip it unless you don't have any other options.