Sick young man drives around in his daddy's camper, looking for lone stray females to kidnap, torture, rape, and murder.Sick young man drives around in his daddy's camper, looking for lone stray females to kidnap, torture, rape, and murder.Sick young man drives around in his daddy's camper, looking for lone stray females to kidnap, torture, rape, and murder.
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- TriviaThe excerpt from the Italian movie "Grunt!" showing an ape removing his head and using it as a rocket to blast off into the sky was also featured in Troll 2. In both cases, it's a movie shown within the movie. In Troll 2, a group of young guys in an RV are watching the ape movie on television, and here it's at a drive-in.
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Girl #1: Hey, Mr. Ray-Ban. A bunch of us are going down to the beach for the Madonna concert. It's gonna start in a little while. You wanna come?
[Mark doesn't respond]
Girl #1: Hey, so what do you say? Do you wanna come?
[Mark is still unresponsive]
Girl #1: Hey, who do you think you are, Mickey Rourke?
Girl #2: Hey, Maggie, let him go.He looks like a fag to me anyways.
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Anonymous, rather dull giallo
Italian director Umberto Lenzi will hopefully always be remembered for gruesome and bloodthirsty splatter films like `Cannibal Ferox' and `Nightmare City' much more than this worthless movie. Hitcher in the Dark is lame and redundant attempt to explore the mind of a disturbed psycho-killer. The 22-year-old Mark Glazer picks up young hitchhiking girls in his camper. Too bad for these girls, Mark suffers from a really bad case of the Oedipus-syndrome and goes over to torturing the girls if they don't want to take mum's place. The plot of `Hitcher in the Dark' (wrong name, by the way, the entire movie is shot in broad daylight!) isn't exactly original and elaborates on the success of `The Hitcher', with a slight Norman Bates twist. There's no tension, the characters are absolutely non-believable and there even isn't enough horror to keep you alert. Hitcher does contain a few bloody make-up sequences, but nowhere near as shocking as some of Lenzi's previous films. I don't know if Josie Bisett likes to be remembered about her starring in this film, but it did mean her debut in the world of cinema. Bisett plays the main muse of the young weirdo. Although I don't like the film at all, I prefer it over watching all the `Melrose Place' episodes, so it can't be that horrible. And at least Bisett shows a little naked flesh here
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- May 30, 2004
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