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...comes soon enough. Enter the second, equally frustrating part of the movie. Treat Williams gives a brilliant performance as Arnold Friend, a wild older man who spots Connie at Frank's one night and makes her his marked woman. With a pathological desire equaled only by Norman Bates in Psycho, Arnold finds Connie alone in her house and invites her "to go for a ride with him." The look of confusion in Connie's eyes as Arnold delivers his request-cum-monologue--a look that says she wants to go with him but knows better than...
From the opening music with its subliminally mixed in strains from Psycho, the audience realizes its mistake in opening the door to this film. Jim Halsey (C. Thomas Howell) just as quickly realizes his error in picking up hitchhiker John Ryder (Rutger Hauer) as he tools through the middle of the Southwestern desert. Contrary to what you might think, Ryder doesn't kill Halsey. He's got other plans. He frames Halsey for the murders that he commits along the road, forcing him to accept the dirty job of serving as Ryder's personal execution squad...