Mark Hamill and Eric Roberts Hitch a Ride: A VHS-Era Double Bill
Tom Jolliffe looks back at a couple of video era films about nefarious hitchhikers, The Nature of The Beast and Midnight Ride…
‘My mother told me never to do this.’ Words of wisdom foolishly ignored by Jim Halsey (C. Thomas Howell) in the 1986 Rutger Hauer classic,
The Hitcher. Halsey picked up a hitchhiker and found himself tormented for the rest of the film’s run time.
The Hitcher wouldn’t be the first nor certainly the last film to show the potential drawback to picking up a thumbing hitchhiker. Hell, even the notorious trash classic