The Hitcher
Rutger Hauer plays a road-killer that might be one of the scariest killers ever and it does it, oh, so bloody well. C. Thomas Howell plays his victim, Jim Halsey, whom he will play a sadistic game of cat and mouse.
If you go to the Wikipedia page, you´ll found this: "The original script was not for the faint of heart. An entire family was slaughtered in their station wagon, an eyeball was discovered inside of a hamburger, a woman was tied to a truck and a pole and then torn in half, a graphic sex scene between two teenagers, a decapitation as well as several slashings, shootings and car crashes. In its original form, Bombyk found the script to be "extremely brutal and extremely gory", but he and personal manager Kip Ohman (who later became co-producers of the film) also saw in it "a level of challenge, intensity, and poetry".
Just imagine how this movie would be if the producers went through with the original material.
Nonetheless, it is a pretty violent movie, it does have a couple of scenes that still make me cringe and the ambient is so nerve wrecking. And you gotta love the dialogues.
I do like the soundtrack as well. The editing and photography are great and, Jesus!, Rutger Hauer. Incredible how this movie is so unknown and kinda underrated.
