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cynicalninja Forum-Blogger© Original500© Member  Smiling Shinobi
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The Hitcher - 1986 (not the freakin remake in 2007 !) During a long night driving through Texas Jim Holsey (C.Thomas Howell) while onroute to San Diego delivering a car for someone picks up a Hitchhiker at the side of the road next to a car. Hoping that the Hitchers company might stop him from falling asleep at the wheel he stops and picks him up. The Hitcher (Rutger Hauer) says little but tentatively volunteers his name as "John Ryder" before asking for a cigarette. Despite numerous queries the hitcher stays quiet before locking Holsey with a withering stare. "What are you looking at me like that for ?" asks Holsey, the hitcher smiles to himself ".....just looking". Suddenly the hitcher makes a grab for the wheel and Holsey pulls over "What did you do that for ?" he asks, "scare you ?" says the hitcher, Holsey makes it clear he wants the hitcher to get out. "I ran out of gas" says the hitcher so Holsey agrees to take him to the nearest gas station. The continue the journey in uneasy silence...."Your much better than the last guy" says the hitcher......."last guy ?" says Holsey...."the guy that picked me up before you did"........"was that him in the car ?" asks Holsey, "yeah.....he didn't walk very far !"........"why ?" asks Holsey, "because I cut off his legs, and his arms and his head......and I'm going to do the same to you !". The hitcher pulls a knife and points towards Holseys eye, Holsey begins to cry "crying isn't going help" says the hitcher, "what do you want ?" asks a tearful Holsey...."I want you to stop me !" Holsey sees his chance and pushes the hitcher out of the car, as he careers down the road on his back, Holsey screams and drives off in triumph. The hitcher brings himself to his feet and affords himself a wry grin, he then begins to hitchhike again at the side of the road. What follows in the next hour and half is every lone drivers nightmare, The hitcher follows Holsey wherever he goes and appears and reappears like a ghost that never stops chasing. Firstly Holsey is playing with two children in the back window of car in front of him, suddenly the face of the hitcher appears in the car between the children ! The hitcher has found more victims ! As the car speeds off Holsey sees it abandoned further down the road as he parks and looks in his eyes widen and he vomits in revulsion. As the hitcher cuts a swatch of destruction across texas including annihiliting an entire police station and every one inside it becomes clear that either he is trying to frame Holsey for all his murderous crimes or is he somehow protecting him from the authorities to keep this "game" going. When he is eventually caught after tying a waitress between a truck and its cargo and ripping her in half the authorities can find no record of him, its almost like he doesn't exist ? As he is carted off in chains under armed escort Holsey decides to follow. Inside the police wagon we see Ryder fingering his restraints watching the four armed cops playing poker in the back, as Holsey closes in on the truck he hears four gunshots, then the door swings open and there is Ryder blood soaked clutching one of the shotguns. What follows is the final confrontation between Holsey and his nemesis and I won't give away the ending. The film is an excellent thriller Hauer is chilling as the hitcher mixing almost playful humour with homicidal nastiness, and Howell has never been better as the wide eyed innocent who by the end becomes a hard hearted realist. Who the Hitcher actually is is a mystery, is he just a man ?, or is he a demon sent to test mankind ?, is he a ghost or a boogieman ?, how does he escape from the police van ?, how is he able to look Holsey direct in the eye through one way glass when he is apprehended ? When Holsey pulls a gun on him when they briefly meet in a dinner how does the hitcher know the gun isn't loaded ? when he then hands Holsey six bullets and places two coins on Holseys eyes and says "figure it out kid" what does he mean. The film is brilliantly edited, the soundtrack is excellent and the camerawork of rural Texas is stunning. It is violent but much is left to the imagination and there is little or no gore. The whole thing plays like somekind of twisted morality tale with a cold heart but with a sense of otherworldyness and hidden meaning.
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Saint Forum-Blogger© Pioneer100© Member  Polymath
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Miracle Mile - is a nuclear war actually happening, or is it just a phone prank? Near Dark - the greatest vampire movie ever made. (They never say the word "vampire") Wizards - Ralph Bakshi's masterpiece is a modern commentary on violence.
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cynicalninja Forum-Blogger© Original500© Member Smiling Shinobi
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Saint wrote: Near Dark - the greatest vampire movie ever made. (They never say the word "vampire") I love that film. Its so different to all the other vampire films, no fangs, no changing into bats, no garlic, no crucifixes. I used to have a huge crush on Mae (Jenny Wright, who seems to have disappeared off the face of the earth). There are rumours of a remake from the same company that created recent remakes of Amityville Horror, Texas Chainsaw Massacre and the Hitcher. So I think you and I both know it will be a piece of crap !
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Its so different to all the other vampire films, no fangs, no changing into bats, no garlic, no crucifixes. Yeah. And I loved the witty dialogue and hyper-violence. "How old are you?" 'Let's just say I fought for the South. We lost." I used to have a huge crush on Mae (Jenny Wright, who seems to have disappeared off the face of the earth). She's startlingly beautiful in a "small fawn caught in the headlights" way, isn't she? There are rumors of a remake from the same company that created recent remakes of Amityville Horror, Texas Chainsaw Massacre and the Hitcher. So I think you and I both know it will be a piece of crap ! Say it aint so, Joe!! Movies like this one are special, one-of-a-kind treats. They work perfectly because of a thousand details and intangibles. Could anyone play "Severen" better than Bill Paxton? Doomed to fail.
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