One of the Great Horror Performances

Torn apart by critics upon release and bombing at the box office, Robert Harmon's 'The Hitcher' has gone down as one of the greatest horror thrillers of all time. Rutger Hauer gives the performance of a lifetime as a serial killer John Ryder, who terrorizes a Young Jim Halsey (C. Thomas Howell) throughout the desert highway playing a deadly game of cat and mouse. Within the first five minutes of this film, the tension is ratcheted up to Eleven and only increased from there. So remember kids, never pick up a stranger.