Read the Empire Movie review of The Hitcher. A stunner of unrelenting tension interrupted by action, violence and gore. ...

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"The Hitcher" begins and ends with the same sound: a match being struck, flaring into flame. At the beginning of the film, the sound is made by the villain, a

The Hitcher is a highly unimaginative slasher that keeps the tension going with a massacre about every 15 minutes.