A serial killer flick that sets itself apart by a strange loving sadist relationship between its villain and victim, the main draw for The Hitcher is Rutger Hauer's harrowing performance as the near superhuman hitchhiker that slaughters anyone that he can use as a pawn in his mind game with the "kid" who picks him up. This thing is riddled with plot holes and logic gaps, but it almost doesn't matter if you take it symbolically. Still, the violent bits hold it back from a serious character study.