Brian Trenchard-Smith on THE HITCHER
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- Sometimes described as a gruesome take on Duel, Robert Harmon’s 1986 horror film takes a different but no less unnerving path than Spielberg’s 1971 thriller. C. Thomas Howell is the careless motorist who makes the mistake of giving a lift to a memorably deranged Rutger Hauer. Jennifer Jason Leigh co-stars.
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Such a bad-ass movie, hugely elevated by John Seale's cinematography and the quality of the performances.
The last Hollywood thriller that had any balls was PRISONERS.
Everyone who saw this film was terrified.
Good to have Brian Trenchard-Smith back on this channel. His contributions are always a treat.
I remember how freaked out I was, following watching 'The Hitcher'. It's also a good film to see how opinions change over time. Often art, dismissed or met with outrage, gets a 're-think' as time passes.
I agree 👍
The original and much SUPERIOR version with Rutger Hauer than the waste of time with Sean Bean.
Honestly, as much of a gorehound I was as a kid, by the time the truck scene was over...I was traumatized.
And Rutger Hauer is just haunting as John Ryder.
Always great to have Brian on TFH.
Agreed 😊
This movie is a banger and genuinely creeped me out when I saw it the first time. Frightening story as it unfolds, no jump scares, no demons, no nightmare people with knife hands. There's a killer on the road, indeed. I need to marathon this movie someday with Red Dawn and The Outsiders. But then I'll also need to watch Road House again.
The Hitcher is undoubtedly flawed and uneven at times, but it absolutely nails the score, cinematography, and has some great performances, namely by Rutger Hauer. I'm a sucker for mood and atmosphere, and this one oozes with nihilistic desert-scape atmosphere.
Great movie thanks mostly to the late Rutger Hauer. Never took Siskel and Ebert seriously
THEY HATED GENRE MOVIES!! How could they call themselves professionals when they let their biases against horror kill their objectivity?
@@Popcultureguy3000Although Ebert was very forgiving if there were large breasts in said genre movie.
@@Popcultureguy3000Siskel and Ebert were reviewing movies in the 70s and 80s and were a different generation to ours, with different sensibilities, and were not overly desensitised by on-screen voilence and "artful" cruelty like today's horror audiences are. Ebert actually did enjoy a lot of genre movies, not sure where you got that from.
@@Popcultureguy3000Siskel and Ebert were reviewing movies in the 70s and 80s and were a different generation to ours, with different sensibilities, and were not overly desensitised by on-screen voilence and "artful" cruelty like today's horror audiences are. Ebert actually did enjoy a lot of genre movies, not sure where you got that from.
@@deckofcards87 I “got it” from the fact that their absolute disgust for cheap slasher horror movies bled into all their reviews for basically every major horror movie that didn’t try to market itself as an art house film already or have good press screening buzz to begin with (The Fly remake just got this amazingly well done pre-screening for critics which spared it their ire).
Just look at all the things they said about “John Carpenter’s The Thing”, completely missing all the amazingly tense atmosphere of paranoia that film built up because of misplaced nostalgia for the “good ol’ days” when horror movies didn’t have a lot of gore and they couldn’t put away their nostalgia for the original film to recognize any of the new one’s merits. And that wasn’t the last horror movie they gave a bad review just because cheap slashers were popular and that’s all they seemed to think about no matter what horror movie in the 80’s and 90’s they were watching, with very rare exceptions.
Great to see BTS!
This was kind of a polarizing film among friends with its detractors saying it worked TOO well and was tough to sit through!
I get that, kinda but I always thought it was pretty badass, mostly to the great Rugged Hauer!
Killer Classic Cult Film that deserves its status.
It's Way better than people thought at the time it came out.
A magnificent, hrutal thriller that also has a strong homoerotic undercurrent between Hauer and Howell. Very Tangerine Dream soundtrack!
Always A+ for BT-S, more please.
Oh yeah! The Hitcher is an underrated 80s gem of a thriller. Rutger Hauer was amazing as the villain.
Nice to have a ending that did what it set out to do!
Eric Red also unfortunately killed someone (Two people?) seemingly deliberately with his car
There's a killer on the road
His brain is squirmin' like a toad
Take a long holiday
Let your children play
If you give this man a ride
Sweet memory will die
Killer on the road, yeah
The fuck Halsey didnt kick Ryder out of the car the second after Ryder presses Halsey's foot down on the gas pedal to speed away from the first victim's car pretty much ruined any suspension of belief for me the rest of the movie, but it was a semi-decent dark thriller for the time.
I always enjoy hearing what Roger Ebert thought back in the day because it almost invariably shows how wrong he was at the time about films that are now recognized as classics. He almost always hated horror films, so he rated them poorly, regardless of quality, meaning you couldn't rely on him an unbiased review. All the following received 2 or fewer stars when he reviewed them the first time around: Clive Barker's original Hellraiser (1987), Day of the Dead (1985), The Shining (1980), An American Werewolf in London (1981), and Army of Darkness (1992). I can't find what he gave the original Alien (1979), but like a lot of other films, he went back and tweaked the rating so that his website now has it (and The Shining) at 4 stars (Note: He has done done this a lot. See "Godfather II" below, for example). Horror-adjacent directors like Tim Burton didn't fare well either (e.g., Edward Scissorhands (1990), Beetlejuice (1988), Batman (1989)), the aforementioned Lynch (e.g., they both hated Lost Highway (1997) and Fire Walk With Me (1992), neither review of which is on Ebert's site, but Blue Velvet, Dune, and Elephant Man are, all of which are panned. Also Ebert said Lynch demeaned Diane Ladd by directing her performance in Wild At Heart... which went on to earn her a Best Supporting Actress nomination!), and he seemed to hate John Carpenter in particular: In the Mouth of Madness (1994), The Fog (1980), and Big Trouble in Little China (1986), and while Siskel liked The Thing (1982) and Escape from New York (1981), Ebert hated them. Yes, every one of these titles received 2 or fewer stars and/or thumbs down. (As far as I can tell, S&E never reviewed They Live (1988); Carpenter parodied the critics in that film as aliens, so I guess they recused themselves.)
What else did Ebert get wrong? Lots of movies that are today considered modern classics like The Usual Suspects (1995), Dirty Dancing (1987), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), Gladiator (2000), Die Hard (1988), and Fight Club (1999). Yep, all 2 or fewer stars from Ebert. Siskel and Ebert both hated Reservoir Dogs (two thumbs down). How is this possible? Because for the most part these were not established directors (and the rest had made films S&E didn't like; see Brazil). Contrast with, say The Godfather, Part III (1990). Ebert gave that 3.5 stars. The inclusion of Sofia Coppola should have demoted it at least one star. (Note that Ebert originally gave Part II only 3 stars, although that's since been revised. Both versions of the review are on his website, unlike The Shining, which has been scrubbed.) No surprise he couldn't appreciate The Hitcher, instead projecting his own knee-jerk attack into an accusation that the film was an assault. No, Roger. It was a good film, and you were a shit reviewer.
Good 😊
I watched this as a young teen as soon as it hit home video. Seen it countless times. I have no idea where reviwers got the 'gay panic' angle from. Two guys can't sit in a car together without there being gay tension? What? The Hitcher came across to me as asexual. He wasn't killing out of any sexual psychosis, he just loved to kill and bring death to those he came across. I don't see it.
Does anyone use their garage for a car, any more ?
Siskel and Ebert made careers of being wrong about everything.
I stopped at a woman being torn apart. That's everything that's wrong with modern horror films.