HD DVD Review: The Hitcher

Posted by Horror News on August 23, 2007

The Hitcher wastes no time in giving the audience what they came to see. Barely at the 15-minute mark, the film begins its slasher movie remake happenings with Sean Bean playing the maniacal killer. It does have everything you would expect from a typical piece of Hollywood entertainment, and it does okay for itself without making an attempt to do anything with the material, which also becomes its failing.

As with nearly any movie in the genre, it requires dumb people doing dumb things to work. It's filled with conveniences well past the point of simply accepting it as movie logic. The few scares are nicely inserted (except for a falling truck that goes absolutely nowhere), though fans of the genre have seen it before. Read more