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...Dole in 1996. Or it could be that the entire subject is not particularly comfortable for a candidate who sat for 10 years on the board of Silver Screen Management Services Inc., a New York-based firm that financed more than two-dozen R-rated movies. The Hitcher, one of its films for Home Box Office (which is owned by this magazine's parent company), was described by reviewers as having a "massacre about every 15 minutes" and "gizzard-slitting depravity." A Bush-campaign spokesman said the Governor did not participate in Silver Screen's decision to back the film...
...from the standard King uniform of work shirt and jeans. She complains that the boys were hogging the pool. Joe, 14, prowls through the study shelves in search of the videocassette of Day of the Dead, but his father suggests the boy screen some Alfred Hitchcock thrillers. "Watch the Hitcher," King advises. "He's scary." When Joe wanders off with Capricorn One instead, King digs out one of the unsolicited horror films he constantly receives by fourth-class mail. The cassette is still wrapped in cellophane. "I can't bear to throw them away," he admits...
...SEEN the ads for The Hitcher on TV or the trailers at the movies, you know that the only real question facing a potential audience member is whether The Hitcher is a "good" B-rate flick or a "bad" B-rate flick. Another slasher film could have taken the urban legend style, Riders on the Storm hitchiker killer motif and made a palatable product for the sanguinary tastes of the nation's youth. But though its premise is good, The Hitcher fails to deliver, and the audience is tediously dragged over the desert highways of this misdesigned film...
...made for TV look and quality of The Hitcher is not suprising. HBO, the new financial giant of moviemaking, is responsible for this creation, which resembles one of the episodes of an HBO urban legend series called The Hitchhiker. The Hitcher will no doubt shortly replace Beastmaster on HBO's skeleton shift...
...audience's attention for longer than an hour-and-a-half. So there's about an extra half hour of wandering around in the desert, getting chased by hick cops who all look the same, or watching Hauer do his imitation of The Thing That Wouldn't Die in Hitcher. Some editing could have been done, perhaps enough to make this an MTV video...