Hitch Hike (1977)

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Excellent, Without a doubt!!

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

I don't believe that no user at all has noted the obvious relation between Robert Harmon's HITCHER and this item of course made long before. I gues you have many gems of tis kind lost in distributors vaults and not necessarily released thu DVD. I won't add much but just enjoy...

Wow, this could have been a great movie. The story could be very compelling. A boozing husband and a sheepish wife go on a camping trip. They stop to pick up a hitchhiker and then the trouble starts. Turns out the hitchhiker has just stolen some money and also ditched his fellow criminals. Now he gains control of this couple and forces them to drive him to a safe location. The problem in this movie is the acting. There is not one decent performance in the whole cast. Corine Cery as the wife is the best, and I have seen her in other movies and she is much better. Same with Franco Nero, a very good actor but he seems to have been asleep or something during this movie because his acting is horrible. The worse acting job is Devid Hess as the hitchhiker. We should feel either extreme hate or at least get some kind of feeling from this guy and we get nothing. He did not scare me, I felt nothing about him. From what I gather from others he is supposed to have played a lot of this kind of character. I guess he is supposed to be some kind of psychopath, but it just did not ring true to me. In a movie like this with this story, I should feel some sympathy for the wife and I don't. The only thing this movie has going for it is plenty of Corine Cery naked. Thats the only reason this gets 4 stars and thats a push.

A psychological road-thriller, mixed with exploitation elements and the voice used to dub David Hess laughs like Elmer Fudd... That last detail is a good indication for how silly the film is at moments. I can't say it never works, the psychological warfare comes off pretty good at times, but overall the plot is too contrived and the characters / actors fail to get the right mood across - it basically gets stuck in the b-movie exploitation genre. Nothing wrong with the latter in itself, but the obvious intentions to get the audience thinking about all kinds of issues did hardly work for me.The part where Adam is left for dead and right after, a mysterious big truck turns up trying to run them off the road and everyone is going "What the hell does he want?!", supposedly not having a clue as to who that might be, is a particular low, apart from the fact that it is a poor attempt at a twist and it's just a rip-off from 'Duel'. The twist(s) at the end didn't work well either, particularly because Eve, having suffered the most in all of what went on before, should have come out on top. But also it feels way too contrived.Just don't expect too much and you'll be able to enjoy some pretty neat camera-work, some okay action, a little gore, some fine nudity and some okay acting (voice-dubbing is pretty much always a problem there).5 out of 10.

Although I have seen and rated this before, I seem not to have put in my two penny's worth and can only wonder why I shied away from this before. Maybe I just forgot or maybe because of the grubbiness. In any event, supposed, 'guilty pleasure' or not, this is an exploitation classic par excellence. David Hess and Franco Nero compete for lead role and both are in devastating form. Corinne Clery who made Story of 'O' before this and Moonraker afterwards is also most effective and the poster alongside here at present illustrates one of her more iconic moments as she steps naked from the caravan armed and dangerous. The film is beautifully made with majestic visuals, great Morriconne score and for a film with so little actual story, completely captivating direction, helped enormously by good dialogue, gobbled up and spat out by true heroes of exploitation cinema. the film is so good that although ostensibly a road movie, it takes on a life its own and grabs you as it goes. Brutal, sexy, funny and strangely uplifting.