The Hitcher (1986)
Shat the Movies: 80's & 90's Best Film Review
Shat on Entertainment
4.5 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Shat The Movies hits the open road with The Hitcher, the 1986 horror-thriller that transformed an ordinary highway drive into pure nightmare fuel. Starring Rutger Hauer as the terrifying and impossibly calm John Ryder, the film follows a young traveler who makes the mistake of picking up a hitchhiker—and spends the rest of the movie trying to survive the consequences.
Gene and Big D break down why Hauer's performance feels less like a human villain and more like an unstoppable force of nature, debate whether C. Thomas Howell's Jim is incredibly unlucky or catastrophically stupid, and revisit the movie's bleak, sweaty atmosphere that makes every gas station and desert highway feel hostile. Along the way, the guys discuss the film's infamous truck sequence, the bizarrely useless police force, and why this movie permanently convinced an entire generation never to pick up hitchhikers.
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While transporting a car across the Southwest, a young man picks up a mysterious hitchhiker who quickly reveals himself to be a sadistic killer. Framed for a string of brutal murders and hunted by police, the driver is forced into a deadly game of survival across endless desert highways.
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| 0:12.7 | Remember when we first met John McLean? |
| 0:15.7 | Argyll picked him up from the plane and took him down the Nakatomi tower at the Christmas party and the terrorists |
| 0:24.3 | were overzealous but it was sweet when they killed Alice and with a little help from Allen |
| 0:30.8 | John McClake came down. Welcome back to chat, the movies, the podcast where we answered the question |
| 0:36.0 | were the movies we loved when we were growing up really that good. |
| 0:38.9 | Have you ever caught yourself thinking, why don't they make movies like they used to? Can you still remember spending a Friday night searching for the perfect movie rental blockbuster video? Do you know what blockbuster video is? If you answered yes, and this is the podcast for you, I am one of your hosts, Gene Lyons. and alongside me as my co-host, Big D. Dickiebert. |
| 0:54.4 | Good evening. |
| 0:55.5 | And each week we take a look back in time to side of our favorite films I am one of your hosts, Gene Lyons, and alongside me is my co-host, Big D, Dick Ebert. |
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| 1:12.9 | And each week, we take a look back in time and decide if our favorite films still hold up. The movies we cover are chosen by you, the listeners, who generously commission the films you love. If you like to see all the movies we have covered, we'll cover, want to choose one for yourself. Please visit chatbaud.com and have a look at the end of each podcast will provide you the audience |
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| 1:47.0 | So, Gene, a big part of the podcast is nostalgia. And we talk about how people today won't know what it's like to walk into a video |
| 1:52.6 | store and search for a film. You get it. You go home. You watch it. And the big part of that was |
| 1:58.3 | you'd walk into the store and they would have posters and the boxes. |
| 2:01.6 | And there were movies you didn't know. |
| 2:03.2 | There's a few of them that have stuck in my brain. |
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