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The Hitcher

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The Hitcher	label	The Hitcher
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The Hitcher	comment	The Hitcher is a 1986 road thriller starring C. Thomas Howell, Rutger Hauer, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Jeffrey DeMunn.The story is about a young man named Jim Halsey (Howell), who's driving a car through the US of A. He decides to go against his mother's warnings and pick up a hitchhiker, John Ryder (Hauer), who then turns his next few days into a waking nightmare.It got a sequel in 2003, The Hitcher II: I've Been Waiting, with C. Thomas Howell reprising his role as Jim, and this time featuring Jake Busey as the murderer. It was remade in 2007 by Platinum Dunes, with Sophia Bush, Zachary Knighton, Neal McDonough and Sean Bean. See also Highwaymen, its Spiritual Successor by the same director.Compare with Duel.
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The Hitcher / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
The Hitcher / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Eric Red can be seen in a cameo role toward the end of the film as a sheriff's deputy escorting the prisoner to the transfer bus.
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The Hitcher / int_129749df	type	All Men Are Perverts
The Hitcher / int_129749df	comment	All Men Are Perverts: John Ryder, who, before murdering an entire family, kisses the head of a young girl in a rather suggestive way, and later on, he molests Grace while she is sleeping.
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The Hitcher / int_13a499b8	type	Diabolus ex Nihilo
The Hitcher / int_13a499b8	comment	Diabolus ex Nihilo: When the police arrest John Ryder, they can't match his finger prints to any existing criminals, nobody knows anything about him, and even his name is undoubtedly an alias. It's as if the desert just spat out Death in human form.
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The Hitcher / int_13abce74	type	Misanthrope Supreme
The Hitcher / int_13abce74	comment	Misanthrope Supreme: Ryder has shades of this. If the fact he kills anyone who gets in his way wasn't obvious enough.
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The Hitcher / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
The Hitcher / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License â€“ Biology: It is not possible to rip a human apart between two trucks in the way shown in the remake. The joints - whether in the elbow, arm, knee, pelvis or feet - would give way earlier, and the victim would get their arms or legs ripped off instead of being ripped in half - still, a messy way to die. In the original, a cop says the victim would be torn in half, but whether he meant that literally or not, nothing is shown.
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The Hitcher / int_18ba2fe	type	Sound-Only Death
The Hitcher / int_18ba2fe	comment	Sound-Only Death: The murders in the police station, when you only hear two gunshots.
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The Hitcher / int_19851b86	type	The Sociopath
The Hitcher / int_19851b86	comment	The Sociopath: Ryder has nothing resembling empathy or a conscience. As far as he is concerned, he can hurt and maim whoever he wants like it's a game.
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The Hitcher / int_19fd589b	type	Deadly Road Trip
The Hitcher / int_19fd589b	comment	Deadly Road Trip: In the remake, Jim Halsey and Grace Andrews are a young couple driving across New Mexico on Spring Break. Unfortunately, things don't go very well for them...
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The Hitcher / int_1c4e3202	type	The Spook
The Hitcher / int_1c4e3202	comment	The Spook: Ryder is called a ghost because there is nothing that identifies him.
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The Hitcher / int_1c5002bc	type	The Stoic
The Hitcher / int_1c5002bc	comment	The Stoic: Despite smiling and laughing in a few scenes, Ryder is very robotic in emotions for the most part, which makes him all the more creepy.
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The Hitcher / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
The Hitcher / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: Nash's horrific death by being tied between a Mack truck and its trailer and then ripped in half by the completely psycho title character.
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The Hitcher / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
The Hitcher / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: The film is not called The Hitchhiker, but The Hitcher, which is a Foreshadowing of the film's most famous murder.
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The Hitcher / int_1e8f4221	type	Fingore
The Hitcher / int_1e8f4221	comment	Fingore: One of the most infamous scenes involves Jim finding a severed finger in his french fries.
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The Hitcher / int_225d8ff9	type	Ambiguously Human
The Hitcher / int_225d8ff9	comment	Ambiguously Human: John. See Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane below.
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The Hitcher / int_27a42ebc	type	Spiritual Successor
The Hitcher / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor: The movie has been compared to Duel, another thriller movie about a man in the desert being targeted and terrorized by a maniac who is possibly supernatural.
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The Hitcher / int_280f59bf	type	Extremely Short Timespan
The Hitcher / int_280f59bf	comment	Extremely Short Time Span: The film begins around 5:00 AM on one day, and ends sometime before noon the next.
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The Hitcher / int_2854b56d	type	Uncertain Doom
The Hitcher / int_2854b56d	comment	Uncertain Doom: After Jim tricks the pursuing Rabid Cops/Killer Cops under orders to shoot-to-kill to blow each other's tires away, it's unknown if the crash impact only knocked them out unconscious besides likely severe and possibly life-threatening injuries sustained from such a crash.
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The Hitcher / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
The Hitcher / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: John Ryder is a serial killer who butchers whole families for kicks.
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The Hitcher / int_313e9485	type	Hero with Bad Publicity
The Hitcher / int_313e9485	comment	Hero with Bad Publicity: Jim Halsey, thanks to Ryder framing him for the murders. Jim and Grace in the remake as well.
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The Hitcher / int_32da548d	type	Arch-Enemy
The Hitcher / int_32da548d	comment	Arch-Enemy: Jim Halsey has John Ryder, a homicidal hitchhiker who makes a game out of stalking him.
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The Hitcher / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
The Hitcher / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: John Ryder is a dog-kicking machine, traveling the roads to murder people, including children, For the Evulz, and deciding to try and corrupt Jim into being just like him on a whim.
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The Hitcher / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
The Hitcher / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: This isn't the first time Henry Darrow played a Vigilante Man, as he had played one before as the iconic Zorro in the 1981 animated series The New Adventures of Zorro (through voice acting) and in the short-lived series Zorro and Son in 1983. Also, this is not the first time Darrow played an Inspector Javert law enforcer attempting to execute a Wrongly Accused protagonist for murder while ignoring the accused's friend's protesting his innocence and attempts to stop the execution.
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The Hitcher / int_3f45f1e6	type	Adaptational Heroism
The Hitcher / int_3f45f1e6	comment	Adaptational Heroism: In the original screenplay, the second batch of arresting officers, Troopers Hancock and Hapscomb, while the former's still a Vigilante Man, were way more corrupt and Hapscomb was more willing to partake in the Vigilante Execution unlike in the actual film where he was a By-the-Book Cop reluctant to participate, while Hancock, who unlike in the screenplay is instead on-screen had a justified and understandable personal motivation behind being a one-man judge, jury and executioner out of thinking Jim killed two of his work friends and was in an emotionally compromised grief-stricken rage that was making him behaving irrationally and is hinted to be a Hero of Another Story because of his reasons that are left unexplored in the final cut, tells him to shut up as he proceeds with the execution.
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The Hitcher / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Hitcher / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: With a heavy emphasis on the Bitter part. The first film ends with Jim finally killing John Ryder, ending his reign of madness. However, Jim is traumatized by all the hell John has put him through, and worst of all, Jim's love interest, Nash, has been killed by John.
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The Hitcher / int_446c5792	type	Villainous Rescue
The Hitcher / int_446c5792	comment	Villainous Rescue: Ryder, who actually saves Jim and Nash's lives (but only so he can try and kill them later) from the vengeful cops.
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The Hitcher / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
The Hitcher / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: Ryder massacres an entire family. Children included. Even creepier, before he murders said family, he kisses one of the children (a young girl) on the head, leaving the implication that he is also a pedophile.
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The Hitcher / int_48c99e19	type	Death by Adaptation
The Hitcher / int_48c99e19	comment	Death by Adaptation: Jim and Lt. Esteridge are BOTH killed in the remake.
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The Hitcher / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
The Hitcher / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: What happens to Nash. Subverted but badly done (the body BOUNCES after being cut in half) in the remake. Also, the fate of the family in the station wagon.
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The Hitcher / int_4b045a8a	type	Villainous Valour
The Hitcher / int_4b045a8a	comment	Villainous Valour: Exaggerated to the point that Ryder can take down a helicopter with just one single gun.
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The Hitcher / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
The Hitcher / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: No explanation is given as to why Jim isn't simply killed immediately like everyone else, so this is the implied motivation.
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The Hitcher / int_4cb7f0d8	type	Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome
The Hitcher / int_4cb7f0d8	comment	Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: Jim and Lt. Esteridge in both the sequel and the remake.
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The Hitcher / int_51f46e82	type	JerkassFacade
The Hitcher / int_51f46e82	comment	The interrogator Sergeant Starr may also qualify. Despite seemingly acting cold, sarcastic and flippant towards Jim during the interrogation, Starr thinks there is no way he can be a killer.
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The Hitcher / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
The Hitcher / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The original begins and ends with Jim lighting a match, although photographed in different ways.
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The Hitcher / int_53c5f30e	type	Happy Ending Override
The Hitcher / int_53c5f30e	comment	Happy Ending Override: In the second film both Jim Halsey and Captain Esteridge killed off early on by another crazy hitcher that hunts down the female protagonist (Halsey's girlfriend, even!). To add insult to injury, the man frames her for their deaths.
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The Hitcher / int_57cfcbdd	type	Meta Twist
The Hitcher / int_57cfcbdd	comment	Meta Twist: For roughly the first half of the movie we only see Ryder from Jim's point of view and a lot of the killings he makes happen to come right out of the blue in front of Jim. The experienced viewer would think that maybe Ryder is some sort of split personality he has and he's really the killer. Nope. We later see other characters specifically see him in person aside from Jim, meaning he actually is real.
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The Hitcher / int_581f6468	type	Hero of Another Story
The Hitcher / int_581f6468	comment	Hero of Another Story: Trooper Lyle Hancock and his quest for vengeance against the killer of his friends would have been given more depth and emphasis if he was a main character. The fact alone Hancock was played by Zorro at the time from the cartoon The New Adventures of Zorro and live-action television show Zorro and Son also further attests to this.
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The Hitcher / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
The Hitcher / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: At least in the remake. Not only do the cops inflict Police Brutality on the main protagonists like in the original, the police officers act idiotically and unmethodical. While not as bad as their remake counterparts and are way more developed in comparison, Jack Donner and Dodge count as well, arresting Jim for being the killer with little evidence and are excessively brutal with him. It gets to the point that their superior Starr flat out calls them idiots for arresting Jim, though itâ€™s left ambiguous as to whether he would have let Jim be arrested or not. The sequel takes this up to eleven. Jack slaughters cops by the dozens without breaking a sweat, and they don't suspect him even after he's caught at one of the crime scenes with no ID or anything to verify his identity. Sheriff Castillo is the only one who figures out how absurd this is, but Jack blows him away with a shotgun before he can help.
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The Hitcher / int_5ce7dbb9	type	Central Theme
The Hitcher / int_5ce7dbb9	comment	Central Theme: The thrill of the hunt.
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The Hitcher / int_5f146203	type	Dissonant Serenity
The Hitcher / int_5f146203	comment	Dissonant Serenity: John Ryder, who never loses his calm as he continues killing people in gruesome ways. Even more so in the remake, where he basically degloves his own hand to escape from his cuffs while keeping a straight face the whole time.
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The Hitcher / int_5fc9b36a	type	Vigilante Injustice
The Hitcher / int_5fc9b36a	comment	Vigilante Injustice: The framed Jim was on the receiving end of this attempt by a very vengeful Trooper Lyle Hancock before Nash saved him from this.
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The Hitcher / int_658f7193	type	Lack of Empathy
The Hitcher / int_658f7193	comment	Lack of Empathy: Ryder never once feels any guilt for any of the murders he commits, or for any of the suffering he inflicts on Jim.
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The Hitcher / int_680bb6b1	type	Hot-Blooded
The Hitcher / int_680bb6b1	comment	Hot-Blooded Trooper Lyle Hancock (played by Henry Darrow who had previously played a vigilante as Zorro in the 1981 animated series The New Adventures of Zorro and in the short-lived series Zorro and Son in 1983), who tried to invoke Loophole Abuse to find an excuse for killing Jim rather than just arrest him out of blind grief-stricken rage to avenge the deaths of two of his police force buddies. When that does not work, he tries to shoot him anyway in front of a busload of witnesses, an action which would cost him his badge and have him be prosecuted for being a Killer Cop and a borderline Dirty Cop who went against typical police protocol. It could have been worse for him when Jim's innocence would be later revealed.
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The Hitcher / int_6ccb6be	type	My Car Hates Me
The Hitcher / int_6ccb6be	comment	My Car Hates Me: Used in both versions: In the original, Esteridge's Dodge truck stalls out in the climax for no readily apparent reason preventing Jim from escaping for a few suspenseful moments. In the remake, Jim's Oldsmobile stalls out at the beginning at a crucial moment.
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The Hitcher / int_70f7063d	type	Unflinching Walk
The Hitcher / int_70f7063d	comment	Unflinching Walk: Ryder walking away from the burning transport van in the remake.
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The Hitcher / int_71105dfc	type	Everybody Smokes
The Hitcher / int_71105dfc	comment	Everybody Smokes: Jim, Ryder, and Nash all smoke in the original film.
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The Hitcher / int_7301ae04	type	Serial Killer
The Hitcher / int_7301ae04	comment	The sequel takes this up to eleven. Jack slaughters cops by the dozens without breaking a sweat, and they don't suspect him even after he's caught at one of the crime scenes with no ID or anything to verify his identity. Sheriff Castillo is the only one who figures out how absurd this is, but Jack blows him away with a shotgun before he can help.
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The Hitcher / int_738d1a0f	type	Because You Were Nice to Me
The Hitcher / int_738d1a0f	comment	Because You Were Nice to Me: Subverted in the sequel. Jack after injuring a female police officer and he's about to shoot her says that he's sorry in doing this since she was nice to him. He still kills her anyway.
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The Hitcher / int_744e3311	type	Police Brutality
The Hitcher / int_744e3311	comment	Police Brutality: Downplayed, but Jim Halsey ends up on the receiving end of this due to being Wrongly Accused, whether it's either being abrasively mishandled while in incarceration, having an interrogator act seemingly coldly towards him despite Jim telling him about himself (though after sending Jim away, this is subverted when he privately expressed to one of the arresting officers, Trooper Jack Donner, that Jim is not a killer which "any fool can see that") or being a target of a vengeful vigilante Rabid Cop with a personal agenda to summarily execute the one responsible for the murders before finally getting shot at during a car chase by officers who are following martial law to shoot-to-kill Jim and Nash rather then just to arrest them alive, forcing them to shoot back in self-defense. So do Jim and Grace in the remake.
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The Hitcher / int_80eb641c	type	Straw Nihilist
The Hitcher / int_80eb641c	comment	Straw Nihilist: It's made more or less clear that Ryder is this.
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The Hitcher / int_82a64c4b	type	Adaptational Nice Guy
The Hitcher / int_82a64c4b	comment	Adaptational Nice Guy: In the original screenplay, the Rabid Cops on Jim's tail were more vicious, nastier, crueler and borderline corrupt towards him than in the actual movie, making their on-screen still-abrasive counterparts looking like upstanding sweethearts in comparison.
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The Hitcher / int_853b7948	type	Ambiguously Evil
The Hitcher / int_853b7948	comment	Ambiguously Evil: The police officers who first arrested Jim, while their persecution of him can be viewed as them being Inspector Javerts towards Jim, it's left unknown if they really started to think Jim could be innocent after interrogation and only still booked and jailed him as part of police protocol until further confirmation of his innocence or they don't really care and are borderline Dirty Cops who want to imprison him anyway without giving him a chance to clear himself.
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The Hitcher / int_8560c16f	comment	Fatal Family Photo: It happens at the ending of the remake; one of the cops on the cop bus that's carrying John Ryder takes out a photo of his daughter.
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The Hitcher / int_8b68d9a7	type	Stalker with a Crush
The Hitcher / int_8b68d9a7	comment	Stalker with a Crush: John Ryder. After Jim Halsey manages to thwart his attempt at murdering him, Ryder becomes obsessed with either killing Halsey or being killed by Halsey. He stalks him throughout the entire movie, framing Jim for crimes he committed (but rescuing him when the police are about to kill him) and killing Jim's only female love interest violently. In one very disturbing scene, he holds Jim's hands, and Jim spits in his face. After Jim leaves, he is seen rubbing the spit onto his lips, smiling.
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The Hitcher / int_8cb1a369	type	Took a Level in Jerkass
The Hitcher / int_8cb1a369	comment	Took a Level in Jerkass: As the film goes on, Jim goes from a Nice Guy to a cold, callous Jerk with a Heart of Gold.
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The Hitcher / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
The Hitcher / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: When trying to warn the family who picked up John Ryder about how dangerous he is, Jim and Grace pull into the other lane to get their attention. When the family doesn't seem to hear them, rather than pulling in front of their car to try to have them pull over, they linger in the other lane long enough for a semi to run them off the road, thus costing the lives of the family.
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The Hitcher / int_8e0ceaf5	comment	Finger in the Mail: The protagonist stops at a roadside diner to call the cops on the serial killer who's been pursuing him. The killer slips a human finger into a plate of fries the waitress brings him.
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The Hitcher / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Downplayed, but Trooper Jack Donner and Trooper Dodge would count, due to them abrasively mishandling Jim when arresting him (to a point Donner calls Jim a "sack of shit") and Donner not giving a chance for Jim to have his brother to call him by not letting the phone ring a little longer.
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The Hitcher / int_91697559	type	Half the Man He Used to Be
The Hitcher / int_91697559	comment	Half the Man He Used to Be: Nash in the original, Jim in the remake.
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The Hitcher / int_94e4b975	comment	Vomit Indiscretion Shot: Lots of these in the original.
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The Hitcher / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: Downplayed. Ryder will occasionally put up a friendly front, but it never lasts long.
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The Hitcher / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Original film and remake: John Ryder is the hitchhiking Serial Killer. The Hitcher 2: I've Been Waiting: Jack is the hitchhiker Serial Killer who wants to kill Jim and Maggie.
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The Hitcher / int_9d17b859	type	Made of Iron
The Hitcher / int_9d17b859	comment	Made of Iron: John Ryder in the remake manages to dislocate his thumb with an extremely audible "CRACK", skin his hand in bloody/painful-looking detail to free himself from handcuffs, but still is able to use that hand without any problem.
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The Hitcher / int_9e86e227	type	The End... Or Is It?
The Hitcher / int_9e86e227	comment	The End... Or Is It?: Subverted. John does get up at the end of the original, but Jim shoots him dead on the spot.
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The Hitcher / int_a3eea2ea	type	Cop Killer
The Hitcher / int_a3eea2ea	comment	Cop Killer: Ryder kills a lot of police throughout the movie. In fact, most of his victims are cops.
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The Hitcher / int_a7313018	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
The Hitcher / int_a7313018	comment	Cellphones Are Useless: Used shamelessly in the remake.
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The Hitcher / int_a8660c25	type	Soft-Spoken Sadist
The Hitcher / int_a8660c25	comment	Soft-Spoken Sadist: Ryder always speaks in a calm and gentle voice, even while he's committing acts of cruelty.
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The Hitcher / int_a91078ea	type	Adaptational Jerkass
The Hitcher / int_a91078ea	comment	While not as bad as their remake counterparts and are way more developed in comparison, Jack Donner and Dodge count as well, arresting Jim for being the killer with little evidence and are excessively brutal with him. It gets to the point that their superior Starr flat out calls them idiots for arresting Jim, though itâ€™s left ambiguous as to whether he would have let Jim be arrested or not.
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The Hitcher / int_a9d70c96	type	Icy Blue Eyes
The Hitcher / int_a9d70c96	comment	Icy Blue Eyes: Ryder has these, which only emphasizes how inhuman he really is.
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The Hitcher / int_ad4c74ed	type	Final Girl
The Hitcher / int_ad4c74ed	comment	Final Girl: Jim Halsey (to an extent) and Grace in the remake.
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The Hitcher / int_adfd3165	type	For the Evulz
The Hitcher / int_adfd3165	comment	For the Evulz: Seems like Ryder's only reason d'etre.
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The Hitcher / int_b034d333	type	Film Noir
The Hitcher / int_b034d333	comment	Film Noir: The original 1986 film mostly plays out as this; the original screenplay was even more noir-ish then the actual film.
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The Hitcher / int_b39d5719	type	Sadist
The Hitcher / int_b39d5719	comment	Sadist: Ryder gets a kick out of not only killing people but also terrorizing them and messing with them, all for his own pleasure.
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The Hitcher / int_b731fa6e	type	I Cannot Self-Terminate
The Hitcher / int_b731fa6e	comment	I Cannot Self-Terminate: Ryder repeatedly gives Jim the opportunity to kill him, goading him to do so.
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The Hitcher / int_b7579a58	type	Senseless Phagia
The Hitcher / int_b7579a58	comment	Senseless Phagia: There's a scene which features a severed finger in a man's fries. He doesn't notice until he directly looks at it.
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The Hitcher / int_b9b7191f	type	The Film of the Song
The Hitcher / int_b9b7191f	comment	The Film of the Song: The movie was inspired by "Riders on the Storm" by The Doors: "There's a killer on the road/His brain is squirming like a toad/Take a long holiday/Let your children play/If you give this man a ride/Sweet memory will die..." Just to drive the point home, the movie opens on the road in a storm, and the Hitcher gives his name as John Ryder.
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The Hitcher / int_babc974	type	Sadistic Choice
The Hitcher / int_babc974	comment	Sadistic Choice: Later in the film, Ryder gives Jim the choice of shooting Ryder, or else he will tear his lover interest, Nash, in half with the truck he's driving. Unfortunately, even if Jim shoots Ryder, his foot will come off the break, causing the truck to roll and tear Nash in half anyway, forcing Jim not to kill Ryder, resulting in Ryder killing Nash.
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The Hitcher / int_bcd27e37	type	Improbable Aiming Skills
The Hitcher / int_bcd27e37	comment	Improbable Aiming Skills: Ryder takes out several squad cars and a frickin' helicopter with no more than a handgun while driving...all to the strains of Nine Inch Nails (in the remake). See also the Car Fu entry above.
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The Hitcher / int_bd4264a3	type	Slasher Smile
The Hitcher / int_bd4264a3	comment	Slasher Smile: Ryder pulls a very creepy one when he's inside a car with a family in it. Take a good guess what he's going to do to them.
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The Hitcher / int_c19c82d4	type	Hostile Hitchhiker
The Hitcher / int_c19c82d4	comment	Hostile Hitchhiker: John Ryder in both the original and the remake, stalks and manipulates the protagonists after failing to kill them outright.
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The Hitcher / int_c2d978fe	type	Car Fu
The Hitcher / int_c2d978fe	comment	Car Fu: In the remake, coupled with an odd variant of Improbable Aiming Skills. Ryder is also briefly the target of this in the original.
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The Hitcher / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
The Hitcher / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: Jim starts out as this, though all the torment he goes through quickly changes that.
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The Hitcher / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
The Hitcher / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: John Ryder is portrayed as almost supernaturally dangerous and elusive. The man slaughters roomfuls of armed cops with ease, shoots down a helicopter with a revolver, and seems to vanish and reappear whenever he chooses. Rutger Hauer has even speculated that Ryder is actually a ghost haunting the desert highways. Also, it's difficult to explain the timing of the motel scene if there isn't something supernatural going on. A whole lot of things including the police being fully aware of and involved in a situation Ryder sets up in the time Jim is taking a shower.
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The Hitcher / int_cb9aeb6a	type	Vigilante Man
The Hitcher / int_cb9aeb6a	comment	Vigilante Man: Hot-Blooded Trooper Lyle Hancock (played by Henry Darrow who had previously played a vigilante as Zorro in the 1981 animated series The New Adventures of Zorro and in the short-lived series Zorro and Son in 1983), who tried to invoke Loophole Abuse to find an excuse for killing Jim rather than just arrest him out of blind grief-stricken rage to avenge the deaths of two of his police force buddies. When that does not work, he tries to shoot him anyway in front of a busload of witnesses, an action which would cost him his badge and have him be prosecuted for being a Killer Cop and a borderline Dirty Cop who went against typical police protocol. It could have been worse for him when Jim's innocence would be later revealed. Jim in the end becomes this, wanting to kill Ryder personally for all the torment he underwent because of him.
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The Hitcher / int_cde51255	type	Antagonist Title
The Hitcher / int_cde51255	comment	Antagonist Title: Jim is the protagonist; the Hitcher is Serial Killer John Ryder.
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The Hitcher / int_d01cffbc	type	Badass Longcoat
The Hitcher / int_d01cffbc	comment	Badass Longcoat: John Ryder wears one in both the original movie and the remake as does Jack in the sequel.
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The Hitcher / int_d51158ee	type	Revised Ending
The Hitcher / int_d51158ee	comment	Revised Ending: The film originally ended with Jim Halsey shooting John Ryder as Ryder lay prone on the highway. However, to avoid an X rating, the filmmakers shot the ending that was ultimately used (with Ryder getting to his feet, showing he is still a threat, and giving Jim at least partial justification for shooting him).
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The Hitcher / int_d6181478	type	Beware of Hitchhiking Ghosts
The Hitcher / int_d6181478	comment	Beware of Hitchhiking Ghosts: Although the film has a living hitchhiker, John Ryder has no social security number, driver's license, or any other indication that he exists. Oh, and he's a psychopathic killer that beats down anybody he pleases.
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The Hitcher / int_d6519b1b	type	Rabid Cop
The Hitcher / int_d6519b1b	comment	Rabid Cop: The Inspector Javert policemen who are after Jim Halsey, especially the abrasive Donner and Dodge (the latter being described in the script as a redneck rookie to Donner's seasoned senior officer) and the corruptly vengeful Hancock. Also see Police Brutality above.
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The Hitcher / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
The Hitcher / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Captain Esteridge, who is probably the nicest cop in the film in contrast to the Inspector Javert Rabid Cops, even when Jim's got a gun on him. The interrogator Sergeant Starr may also qualify. Despite seemingly acting cold, sarcastic and flippant towards Jim during the interrogation, Starr thinks there is no way he can be a killer.
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The Hitcher / int_df410b77	type	Decoy Protagonist
The Hitcher / int_df410b77	comment	Decoy Protagonist: Jim and Lt. Esteridge are both Back for the Dead in the continuation to the original film. The true protagonist is Jim's new girlfriend, who is even framed for their deaths by the new hitcher. Same thing happens to them in The Remake.
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The Hitcher / int_e5421161	type	Expy
The Hitcher / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: John Ryder is possibly inspired by the nameless truck driver from Duel.
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The Hitcher / int_e542d889	type	Gorn
The Hitcher / int_e542d889	comment	Gorn: The remake. The scene of a German Shepherd licking blood off a slit neck in the original may also count.
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The Hitcher / int_e5467735	type	Expy Coexistence
The Hitcher / int_e5467735	comment	Expy Coexistence: Jack from the sequel is also clearly meant to be an Expy of Ryder, to the point where he not only has blonde hair like Ryder, but even dresses in exactly the same clothes. That, and he's a psychotic killer who terrorizes people.
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The Hitcher / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
The Hitcher / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: John Ryder, especially in the remake, where he mutilates his own hand to break out of his cuffs just to keep his killing streak going.
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The Hitcher / int_e5fd8bc2	type	Hate Sink
The Hitcher / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: John Ryder is a murderous, sadistic psychopath and an all-around creep with no redeeming qualities who kills others without any reason or provocation and spends the whole plot trying to ruin Jim's life. The cops who mishandle Jim while arresting him also count as this. They even border on being Corrupt Cops, since they not only refuse to give Jim a chance to talk to his brother on the phone by deliberately hanging up the phone before his brother can even answer it, but they even outright say that "even a fool can tell Jim isn't a killer", heavily implying that they could care less whether Jim is innocent or not and that they just want an excuse to imprison him. However, they are Ambiguously Evil as this depends on one viewer's interpretation and they are killed before their alleged and implied corruption is fully confirmed. Jack from the sequel is every bit as depraved and sadistic as John Ryder. Some of his actions are almost more brutal than John's since Jack is not above scalping his victims. The 2007 remake manages to add a whole other layer of depravity to Ryder by making him a would-be rapist, and a thuggish, foul-mouthed misogynist in addition to a bloodthirsty killer.
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The Hitcher / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
The Hitcher / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: To call Ryder this is putting it very mildly.
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The Hitcher / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
The Hitcher / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Averted when counting both the original film and its sequel. In the original film, one of the arresting officers, Donner, is addressed by Sergeant Starr as Jack, while in the sequel, the new hitcher's name is Jack too.
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The Hitcher / int_f013bd87	type	Pick on Someone Your Own Size
The Hitcher / int_f013bd87	comment	Pick on Someone Your Own Size: The original film is a textbook example of this. After young teenager Jim Halsey manages to thwart serial killer John Ryder's attempt to add him to one of his list of victims, Ryder becomes completely obsessed with stalking Halsey and killing or being killed by him. Ryder himself looks to be around 40 to 50 years old. The 2007 remake turns this into an intergender example by adding Jim's girlfriend Grace Andrews to the mix. Ryder eventually murders Jim and puts all his focus on Grace.
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The Hitcher / int_f178203a	type	Inspector Javert
The Hitcher / int_f178203a	comment	Inspector Javert: The police pursue Jim Halsey with Captain Esteridge as an exception.
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The Hitcher / int_f42f96fa	type	Would Hit a Girl
The Hitcher / int_f42f96fa	comment	Would Hit a Girl: Ryder doesn't care if his victims are male or female.
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The Hitcher / int_fc9b6be5	type	Foe Romance Subtext
The Hitcher / int_fc9b6be5	comment	Foe Romance Subtext: Deliberately implied in the original The Hitcher, to the point where it creeps out the cops to watch the lead characters interact in the interrogation room.
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The Hitcher / int_fe64d5a1	comment	Evil Is Petty: Ryder spends the whole film harassing and trying to kill Jim, simply because he fought back.
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The Hitcher / int_fff371b4	comment	Death Seeker: John Ryder. As the plot uncovers, he repeatedly asks Jim Halsey to kill him in cold blood (after their first encounter when Jim picked up Ryder as an unsuspecting hitchhiker). When Jim fails to do so, John proceeds to go on a path of carnage.
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The Hitcher	hasFeature	Creator Cameo / int_4dba172e
The Hitcher	hasFeature	Definite Article Title / int_4dba172e
The Hitcher	hasFeature	Diabolus ex Nihilo / int_4dba172e
The Hitcher	hasFeature	Disowned Adaptation / int_4dba172e
The Hitcher	hasFeature	Dissonant Serenity / int_4dba172e
The Hitcher	hasFeature	Fatal Family Photo / int_4dba172e
The Hitcher	hasFeature	Film Noir Index / int_4dba172e
The Hitcher	hasFeature	Finger in the Mail / int_4dba172e
The Hitcher	hasFeature	Foe Romance Subtext / int_4dba172e
The Hitcher	hasFeature	Homage / int_4dba172e
The Hitcher	hasFeature	I Cannot Self-Terminate / int_4dba172e
JenniferJasonLeigh	seeAlso	The Hitcher
The Hitcher	hasFeature	Kill Him Already! / int_4dba172e
The Hitcher	hasFeature	Murder the Hypotenuse / int_4dba172e
100 Scariest Movie Moments	seeAlso	The Hitcher
The Hitcher	hasFeature	One Phone Call / int_4dba172e
The Hitcher	hasFeature	Pick on Someone Your Own Size / int_4dba172e
The Hitcher	hasFeature	Psychological Thriller / int_4dba172e
The Hitcher	hasFeature	Senseless Phagia / int_4dba172e
The Hitcher	hasFeature	Strike Me Down with All of Your Hatred! / int_4dba172e
The Hitcher	hasFeature	The Foreign Subtitle / int_4dba172e
The Hitcher	hasFeature	The Spook / int_4dba172e
Steve Jablonsky (Music)	seeAlso	The Hitcher

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