Since its release in 1986, Robert Harmon’s The Hitcher has been on quite the journey. Initially panned by many critics, the film is now seen as an undisputed cult classic, featuring one of the late ...

As screenwriter Eric Red drove through the Texas badlands, The Doors’ song “Riders on the Storm” popped into his mind. Inspired in part by the hitchhiker Billy Cook, who brutally murdered six people ...

Evidence that Hollywood is now scraping the absolute bottom of the barrel: “The Hitcher” is a remake of a 1986 Rutger Hauer movie. Not only a Rutger Hauer movie, but a mediocre Rutger Hauer movie. In ...

A new interpretation of 1986 thriller The Hitcher will be produced by Platinum Dunes. The original Robert Harmon-directed movie saw C. Thomas Howell as a teenager who picks up homicidal hitchhiker ...

NEW YORK -- Dutch film actor Rutger Hauer -- who specialized in thoughtful, menacing roles, including a memorable turn as a murderous android in "Blade Runner" opposite Harrison Ford -- has died. He ...

(THE NETHERLANDS) — Actor Rutger Hauer, the Dutch actor who starred movies like The Hitcher, Sin City, and Batman Begins — but was perhaps best known for playing an artificial human in 1982’s Blade ...