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Post by Marv on Jan 4, 2018 22:38:11 GMT
Finally watched it last night for the first time. Awesome thriller. Rutger Hauer was amazing and Howell and Leigh were fine. I did not expect them to follow through with that truck scene. Pretty brutal even if you don’t see much. Reminded me of Duel in a lot of ways. I feel like in both films you aren’t entirely sure the villain is real for most of the first half. It could be an alter ego or imagination of the main character. But at some point they’re proven right.
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Post by rogerthat on Jan 4, 2018 23:06:03 GMT
Good movie. Like the truck scene, the part where Howell discovers the family with the little kids is something you don't see details but are impressed they went so far.
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Post by stefancrosscoe on Jan 5, 2018 13:57:06 GMT
Finally watched it last night for the first time. Awesome thriller. Rutger Hauer was amazing and Howell and Leigh were fine. I did not expect them to follow through with that truck scene. Pretty brutal even if you don’t see much. Good movie. Like the truck scene, the part where Howell discovers the family with the little kids is something you don't see details but are impressed they went so far. That is what I loved about this film along with another great 1986 thriller in Manhunter, they do not show too much but still it end up working so well because you can clearly tell from the main leads facial reactions of how gruesome it really is, and that is why I dislike/hated the unecessary and terrible remakes of both films, which failed on all accounts to create any suspense at all. Instead they just went full in with poorly timed/executed and sloppy cheap "scares", along with too much details, blood and gore. I am glad to see that the film still holds up so well and that people are enjoying and either discovering or re-discovering it. Still I hope that we might get a good Blu-ray release someday, hopefully stuffed with bonus material and so on, as it seems kind of strange that they screwed up the opportunity to give it a worthy 30th anniversary edition back in 2016.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Jan 5, 2018 17:29:39 GMT
That is what I loved about this film along with another great 1986 thriller in Manhunter, they do not show too much but still it end up working so well because you can clearly tell from the main leads facial reactions of how gruesome it really is, and that is why I dislike/hated the unecessary and terrible remakes of both films, which failed on all accounts to create any suspense at all. Instead they just went full in with poorly timed/executed and sloppy cheap "scares", along with too much details, blood and gore. I am glad to see that the film still holds up so well and that people are enjoying and either discovering or re-discovering it. Still I hope that we might get a good Blu-ray release someday, hopefully stuffed with bonus material and so on, as it seems kind of strange that they screwed up the opportunity to give it a worthy 30th anniversary edition back in 2016.Very much agree with you on that, stefancrosscoe. It's very frustrating that The Hitcher doesn't have a blu-ray release yet. Probably some unresolved bullshit with the rights are holding it back I'm sure. I still have that old HBO DVD, but the picture quality is crummy on a high def TV.
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Post by petrolino on Jan 6, 2018 5:00:26 GMT
Brilliant script and super-tight filmmaking. Horror icon Linnea Quigley included a scene with Jennifer Jason Leigh from 'The Hitcher' in one of her lists of all-time favourite scary horror movie moments.
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