382 - The Hitcher

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🗓️ 23 June 2025

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

"Is this just Fight Club in the 80s?"

This week’s most unhinged highway horror is The Hitcher (1986). This film has everything: Gas station explosions, Tyler Durden cosplay, and a Swedish-American shoulder-width that brings all the Pages to the yard. If you love shoulder theories, not know if Rutger Hauer wants to kill or fuck you, and cops doing the absolute least, this episode’s for you!

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0:00.0	For as many gas stations are in this film, not enough slim jims.
0:06.0	Snap into a hitching.
0:12.1	Like, he runs up to, like, that fourth gas station row, and it's like, are you going to get a slurpy?
0:16.6	No? Keep running? All right.
0:20.9	Thank you for tuning to Horror Virgin.
0:22.6	I'm Paige.
0:23.2	And I'm your Horror Virgin, Todd, which means I don't like scary movies, but you guys make me watch them.
0:27.5	And this week, Paige made us watch The Hitcher.
0:31.5	From 1986.
0:32.8	The original.
0:33.8	Yeah.
0:34.4	So, Paige, was this the first time you saw The Hitcher? This was not. I watched this in film school.
0:40.2	Really? Bill Eisner talked about this in his class. Okay. Yes. And I don't know if I have not had a chance to listen all the way through the episodes we've previously recorded because, you know, war and shit. Right. But like, I think I talked about how he used to use a quote in class that Rucker
0:57.3	Hauer looks like he's going to fuck you or eat you and you're not sure which one.
1:01.7	And like, that's very true in this movie.
1:05.1	But we watch this, like, we watch parts of this in companion with Blade Runner because
1:10.1	obviously Rucker Hauer is also in Blade Runner.
1:12.3	So we were kind of talking about, like, creating a villain for an actor that you know
1:16.3	can embody that villain.
1:18.6	Right.
1:18.9	Yeah.
1:19.2	And so, yeah.
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