I really liked the original Hitcher. Rutger Hauer was a truly frightening man, someone who has successfully scared me off of picking up even the most docile looking hitchhiker. The remake wasn’t nearly as scary, but I liked it a lot anyway.
The plot is pretty close to the original, only this time you have a boyfriend and girlfriend who are traveling across New Mexico for spring break rather than a young guy driving a car across country where he meets a waitress who is dragged into the Hitcher’s cross fire. The two kids pick up Sean Bean, a crazed, sadistic killer who torments them as they flee his murderous intent. The New Mexico police, despite how much the two kids try to convince them otherwise, suspect them of actually being the killers.
It’s pretty scary in parts, with lots of blood. I liked the two kids, Sophia Bush and Zachary Knighton, and Sean Bean was good as John Ryder, the crazy hitchhiking serial killer. The blank desert landscape of New Mexico is perfect for the story and it only helps increase the isolation the two kids feel and it only heightens the tension.
This version is nowhere as good as the original, but if you can separate the two and not hold this one up to that classic, you can find this one to be a pretty fun horror flick.
Rating: 4 Purrs for my favorite Sophia Bush and the beautiful New Mexico landscape
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