Viewers looking for more than a few secondhand thrills should drive right past The Hitcher.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 27, 2020

The recent assembly-line remaking of recognizable horror titles continues with The Hitcher, a dreary updating of the 1986 Rutger Hauer thriller.

Full Review | Jul 28, 2008

[It's] cheerfully in touch with its own brainlessness.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 22, 2007

Tense, brooding, scary -- there are plenty of words to describe 1986's superior B-movie The Hitcher. None, however, apply to this remake.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 16, 2007

The first few minutes of Dave Meyers's remake of The Hitcher are desperately tense.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 2, 2007

A depressingly formulaic reworking of a unique cult favourite that should have been left well alone. Stick with Rutger.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 1, 2007

Bloated, boring and over-explained.

| May 31, 2007

A guilty pleasure -- but only if you like your action outlandish, your continuity challenged and your guts and gore splattered all over the screen.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 29, 2007

One of the better models in a long line of recent horror remakes.

Full Review | Mar 24, 2007

Eric Red's sturdy genre script from 1986 has been diluted in the worst way possible.

| Original Score: 1/6 | Feb 3, 2007

Don't even think of stopping.

| Feb 3, 2007

The first film was near-mythic in its tone and treatment of its characters, while this remake barely serves as a primer in how not to generate suspense.

| Original Score: 0.5/5 | Feb 3, 2007

About all the movie is effective at is insulting the audience.

| Original Score: C- | Jan 25, 2007

While the blood and gore are turned up to almost unimaginable heights, the fear factor is freakishly low, Meyer confusing loud and obnoxious with tense and terrifying.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 23, 2007

[Grace, played by Sophia Bush] can't go six blocks without having to pee, and we're supposed to believe she knows how to fire a Colt 45 and a shotgun?

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 22, 2007

Switching the hero from a lone driver to a couple spoils the original's most intriguing idea: that the mass-murdering jackal may be the driver's own escaped id. That leaves little to fill 83 expendable minutes, which barely register as a movie.

| Jan 22, 2007

[Director Dave Meyers] leans a bit more on character and narrative than one might expect, particularly in these get-em'-naked-and-kill-em' days of gratuitously violent horror movies. Not that this isn't plenty violent and gratuitous its own way.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 22, 2007

That [original] film was intellectually engaging as well as tangibly creepy, while the new remake is just plain bad, and boring to boot.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 22, 2007

Perhaps most unforgivably, pic lacks suspense. The action scenes are directed credibly enough, but the nail-biting buildups and awful aftermaths are laid out mechanically and drained of emotional effect.

| Jan 20, 2007

Like the same-titled 1986 cult favorite, this remake is a crash-and-burn action horror with intellectual pretensions.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jan 20, 2007