A remake of this movie has just appeared at the cinemas and has been universally panned. Did the original need remaking? The answer is...possibly. The original Hitcher movie starring Rutger Hauer and C Thomas Howell is quite revered in the thriller chiller genre but certainly on a recent rewatch I felt it had lost some of its intensity. In places it feels ballsy and in others it feels messy and cheap. Back in the 1980s it was pretty horrific but in this age of near no holds barred cinema, it doesn't retain the same power. Interestingly the director never really went on to do anything else of note. Still very watchable but only a JM SUCK IT AND SEE.
