Since its release in 1986, Robert Harmon’s The Hitcher has been on quite the journey. Initially panned by many critics, the film is now seen as an undisputed cult classic, featuring one of the late ...

Christopher Nolan is the biggest director in the world at the moment. He was already celebrated for movies like Memento, Inception, and his Dark Knight trilogy, but this past year further cemented his ...

Evidence that Hollywood is now scraping the absolute bottom of the barrel: “The Hitcher” is a remake of a 1986 Rutger Hauer movie. Not only a Rutger Hauer movie, but a mediocre Rutger Hauer movie. In ...

The 1986 original stars Rutger Hauer as a psychotic hitchhiker who, after being kindly picked up by a young driver (C. Thomas Howell), ungratefully sets him up for a string of murders. Eric Bernt ...

Just because a remake is unnecessary doesn’t mean that it isn’t any good. Take “The Hitcher,” for example, a remake of a 1986 adults-only movie starring Rutger Hauer. The first movie wasn’t anything ...

(THE NETHERLANDS) — Actor Rutger Hauer, the Dutch actor who starred movies like The Hitcher, Sin City, and Batman Begins — but was perhaps best known for playing an artificial human in 1982’s Blade ...

The Department of Transportation estimates that 42,000 Americans die every year on the nation’s highways. That figure would soar dramatically if guys like John Ryder existed. Ryder, a resourceful ...

A new interpretation of 1986 thriller The Hitcher will be produced by Platinum Dunes. The original Robert Harmon-directed movie saw C. Thomas Howell as a teenager who picks up homicidal hitchhiker ...

NEW YORK — Dutch film actor Rutger Hauer, who specialized in menacing roles, including a memorable turn as a murderous android in “Blade Runner” opposite Harrison Ford, has died. He was 75. Hauer’s ...

The factoid at the beginning of producer Michael Bay’s latest useless horror remake informs us that “42,000 people are killed on highways each year.” But if there’s one thing that can be learned from ...