Hitch Hike to Hell

19771977
RR
1h 27m

IMDb RATING

4.9/10

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Crime Horror Mystery

Howard is a mild-mannered young man who drives a truck for a commercial laundry. He's also a mother-obsessed psycho who picks up young female hitchhikers, rapes them and kills them. As the b... Read allHoward is a mild-mannered young man who drives a truck for a commercial laundry. He's also a mother-obsessed psycho who picks up young female hitchhikers, rapes them and kills them. As the bodies start piling up, the police finally begin to investigate.Howard is a mild-mannered young man who drives a truck for a commercial laundry. He's also a mother-obsessed psycho who picks up young female hitchhikers, rapes them and kills them. As the bodies start piling up, the police finally begin to investigate.

IMDb RATING

4.9/10

455

YOUR RATING

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Trivia
Even though the story is fictional, the character of Captain J.W. Shaw (Russell Johnson) does mention some then current serial killers such as The Zodiac Killer (never apprehended) in San Francisco, the Skid Row Slasher (latter discovered to be Vaughan Greenwood) in Los Angeles and "that nut down in Houston" (referring to Dean Corll who killed a staggering 27 boys before being shot dead by his accomplice Wayne Henley).

Goofs
After Pam is released from the police, she is hitchhiking, once more, and when Howard picks her up, she is sitting on a tiny roadside stone wall, next to a metal barrier, to her left, facing downhill. As the red van drives off, with Pam inside, the van instantly drives uphill and the tiny roadside wall and the barrier are gone and replaced by rough verge.

Connections
Featured in Extra Weird (2003)

Soundtracks
Hitch Hike To Hell
Sung by Nancy Adams
Music by Floyd Huddleston
Lyrics by Tom Adair
Harmonicist - Wayne Berwick

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4/10

Silly and lame exploitation flick, for fans only.

Well, no doubt about it that the fans of '70's exploitation will still really enjoy this movie. I know I did but I of course still can't call this a very good movie really.

Everyhing about this movie is making it obvious that it had a very low budget. It's one of those movies that seemed to be shoot with only one camera, who every now and then switched positions to capture the other character's responses. The movie also being filled with some needlessly overlong sequences which just drag on. It also has some simple editing, simple directing and some simple acting. It's fair to say that this movie is not really very surprising in any way. Of course besides the movie has a pretty simple story in it, that relies purely on it's principal concept.

It's a movie about a killer who picks up hitchhiking runaways and then goes completely berserk once he discovers that they had run away from home and do not love their mother. This is something that happened as well to the movie it's poor main characters. His sister had run away from home and his poor old mother, which he loves very much, has never got over this. As a sort of revenge for his mother this man kills these runaways.

The concept itself isn't too bad really and I guess this is the only reason why the movie still works out within its genre. The movie is being pretty silly and lame at times, which also gets really due to its dialog and the actors performing. Most actors had very little experience before appearing in this movie and most actors had not appeared in very much ever since.

Really for the genre fans only.

4/10

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