Directed by: Dave Meyers
Summary[]
Grace and Jim are a pair of college students on their way to spring break in a 1970 Oldsmobile. Blissfully unaware of the horror that awaits them, they offer a ride to hitchhiker John Ryder, a killer who subsequently terrorizes the couple and implicates them in a grisly slaying.
Male Deaths[]
- Sean Bean (John Ryder/The Hitchhiker)
- Danny Bolero (Officer Edwards)
- Jeffrey Hutchinson (Young Father)
- Zachary Knighton (Jim Halsey)
- Neal McDonough (Lt. Esteridge)
- Skip O' Brien (Harlan Bummer Sr.)
- Travis Schuldt (Deputy Harlan Bremmer Jr)
Female Deaths[]
- D’Nette Pennington (Young Mother)
Gallery[]
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Trivia[]
- The film is a remake of the 1986 horror film The Hitcher.
- Sean Bean spent little time with his young co-stars so as to distance their relationship and make himself seem more unknown and menacing. He believed this would drive the chemistry in a more realistic fashion.
- Rutger Hauer who played the character John Ryder in the original film was offered a cameo, but declined for artistic reasons. Hauer has since said in the press that he has yet to watch the remake, and according to some of his friends he shouldn't bother.
- Jessica Biel turned down the role of Grace Andrews while Britney Spears was considered for the same role before Sophia Bush was eventually casted as Grace.
- Despite being credited, Eric Red did not work on the screenplay.
- The two main characters that survive in the original film, The Hitcher; Jim Halsey and Captain Esteridge - are killed in this remake.
- Dave Meyers, the director for this remake makes a cameo appearance on the photo of the driver's license as the real John Ryder.