A bickering couple driving cross-country through California pick up a psychotic hitchhiker with two million dollars who threatens to kill them unless they take him to Mexico.
Acting
David Hess weaponizes his Krug charisma, Franco Nero matches him snarl for snarl.
Cinematography
Endless highways become suffocating prison, gorgeous and oppressive.
Direction
Campanile lets the three-way tension cook until it boils over.
Director
Pasquale Festa Campanile
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
David Hess wrote and performed the songs in Last House on the Left, and Hitch Hike trades on that same sleazy folk-singer menace he perfected for Craven.
Based on Peter Kane's novel The Violence and the Fury, this is essentially an Italian giallo director making an American road movie—explaining why it feels both authentically grubby and weirdly operatic.
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