Whether “Hitcher” captures the top spot could depend on how well Sony Pictures’ “Stomp the Yard” holds in its second weekend. The urban dance-off film from Sylvain White was No. 1 last weekend, ...

Way back in ’86, a violent little movie called “The Hitcher” came along and pretty much ended hitchhiking as we know it. The almost-scene-for-scene remake is the same: Who would pick up a hitchhiker ...

What exactly is an existential horror movie? As with defining a horror overall, the answer is often down to personal choice. We are all scared of different things. Most of the time. There are certain ...

The Hitcher (1986) is a horrifying thriller that follows Jim Halsey as he picks up a hitchhiker named John Ryder on his way to San Diego, turning his journey into a nightmare. The movie was directed ...

And make no mistake, The Hitcher is a monster of a movie - not just in its violence and dark psychology, but in the multiplicitous depths of its thematic content. Ryder's illusiveness lends the ...

While on a road trip to get to their unknown Spring Break destination, college students Grace (Sophia Bush) and Jim (Zachary Knighton) cross paths with John Ryder (Sean Bean), a man who needs a lift ...

Dir: Dave Meyers. US. 2007. 84mins. The recent assembly-line remaking of recognisable horror titles continues with The Hitcher, a dreary updating of the 1986 Rutger Hauer serial-killer hitchhiker ...

The Hitcher is an unambitious remake of the cult classic from 1986, in which Rutger Hauer as an implacable hitchhiker terrorised C. Thomas Howell and Jennifer Jason Leigh. Though no masterpiece, the ...

Whether "Hitcher" captures the top spot could depend on how well Sony Pictures' "Stomp the Yard," above, holds in its second weekend. By Nicole Sperling, The Associated Press Although Hollywood didn’t ...