The Hitcher (Arrow Books)
- Robert Harmon’s 1986 film The Hitcher is a complex beast: reviled at the time of its release
- It has been adored in the long term as one of the most intoxicating
- Unrelenting highway cult films ever made
- Starring Rutger Hauer in the title role whose alluring villainy would give his turn as Blade Runner’s Roy Batty a run for its money
- The Hitcher – both the film and the character – is simultaneously of its time and of the now
- A film about the real and the mythic
- And a film that challenges our assumptions about masculinity and femininity
- Its horrors unfold as The Hitcher tracks and tortures the film’s protagonists across the highways of Nowhere USA
- And the film reveals a tangle of contradictions: it is
- At times
Product information
| Beast | Reviled at the time of its release it has been adored in the long term as one of the most intoxicating unrelenting highway cult films ever made |
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| Usa, and the film reveals a tangle of contradictions | It is at times simultaneously dense shallow obvious subtle absurd and deeply intelligent |
| Amount of pages | 99 |
