The Hitchhiker

The Hitchhiker

1983
The Hitchhiker
The Hitchhiker

The Hitchhiker

6.7 | en | Drama

A young hitchhiker introduces characters who are about to experience a frightening and sometimes supernatural incident of some kind in this moody anthology series.

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EP20  New Blood
Feb. 22,1991
New Blood

An aspiring actress is prepared to sell her soul just to be accepted into a popular unique theater troupe. However, that might actually be the actual price to be paid in this case.

EP19  Secrets
Feb. 15,1991
Secrets

A woman and her lover try to get her husband's insurance money after he suffers a deadly accident. However, they get an unexpected visitor.

EP18  Offspring
Feb. 08,1991
Offspring

A meek man is being dominated all his life by his selfish mother, who wants him to stay with her forever. He reaches the breaking point after having an oedipal nightmare, during sleep one night.

EP17  A Whole New You
Feb. 01,1991
A Whole New You

A violent criminal, preparing to testify against his old boss, goes to a clinic to have plastic surgery to conceal his identity.

EP16  Made In Paris
Jan. 25,1991
Made In Paris

The manager of a factory that hires illegal immigrants becomes responsible for the death of one of them. His becomes paranoid and believes that vengeful employees have cast a curse on him.

EP15  Living a Lie
Jan. 18,1991
Living a Lie

A bartender steals one of his customer's credit card and uses it to fulfill his every whim and need. What he doesn't realize is that he's just a pawn in someone's game.

EP14  Homecoming
Jan. 11,1991
Homecoming

The past comes back to haunt a charismatic white supremacist.

EP13  Tourist Trap
Dec. 14,1990
Tourist Trap

A Parisian conman, who rips off tourists, who arrive in town for the first time, finds that his latest mark has turned the tables on him.

EP12  White Slaves
Dec. 07,1990
White Slaves

Two college students, who can't get a date for the evening, kidnap a woman, but end up fighting each other over her.

EP11  Working Girl
Nov. 30,1990
Working Girl

A housewife catches her husband in the act with another woman and decides to shoot them both, but the mistress escapes.

EP10  Windows
Nov. 23,1990
Windows

An artist obsessed with his paintings comes to believe that the things he drew are events from the future.

EP9  Trust Me
Nov. 16,1990
Trust Me

A conman is in over his head, when he's forced by an attractive girl to swindle her mother.

EP8  A Function of Control
Nov. 09,1990
A Function of Control

A woman in love with her boss accidentally kills his wife. From there on things spiral out of control.

EP7  New Dawn
Nov. 02,1990
New Dawn

An unfaithful husband, who lives with his wife in an artist colony, faces false accusation of murder, when his wife has had enough of his sexcapades.

EP6  Toxic Shock
Oct. 26,1990
Toxic Shock

A man catches his friend Raskin illegally dumping toxic waste near their small town. They fight and the man is killed, but Raskin becomes exposed to the toxic materials by accident and begins hallucinating and losing his grip on reality.

EP5  Hard Rhyme
Oct. 19,1990
Hard Rhyme

A poet, who works as a teacher in prisons, steals some poetry he likes from a convict, who came up with it. He soon realizes that it is carrying some serious baggage.

EP4  Strate Shooter
Oct. 12,1990
Strate Shooter

A young man, who likes to always have his way, tries to emulate his favorite TV show and save a girl from the clutches of the criminal underworld.

EP3  Riding the Nightmare
Oct. 05,1990
Riding the Nightmare

A cutthroat career woman who's having an affair with her sister's husband starts suffering from strange nightmares about a white horse symbolizing death. The ensuing melodrama blurs the lines between the psychological and witchcraft.

EP2  Tough Guys Don't Whine
Sep. 28,1990
Tough Guys Don't Whine

Mickey Black is a film director with everything going for him until he seduces a woman away from her gangster boyfriend. He promises her all the glory in the world, but things take a dangerous turn when her boyfriend refuses to give her up.

EP1  Fading Away
Sep. 21,1990
Fading Away

When an ex-marine realises he is all on his own, he becomes convinced that he's on a dangerous mission and has been abandoned by his commanding officers.

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6.7 | en | Drama , Crime | More Info
Released: 1983-11-01 | Released Producted By: , Country: France Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website: http://www.thehitchhiker.com
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A young hitchhiker introduces characters who are about to experience a frightening and sometimes supernatural incident of some kind in this moody anthology series.

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Woodyanders Mainly notable as the HBO Network's first foray into making its own TV series, this nifty little show tended to adhere to the following strict formula: Bad people do something bad and something bad happens to them in kind, thereby confirming that cruel and evil actions often result in wickedly dire consequences. What gave this program an extra potent and startling impact was that practically every episode ended on a brutal downbeat note in which the frequently rotten main character wound up on the receiving end of a usually bleak, yet still fitting comeuppance of some kind or another. It's this show's unsparingly bitter and pessimistic take on the worst aspects of human nature like lust, greed, deceit, and plain old selfishness that made it so distinctive and effective. Sure, there was the occasional upbeat conclusion to an episode, but by and large this series kept things remarkably grim and negative. In addition, a majority of the episodes fall into the gritty thriller category, with only the sporadic foray into more fantastic horror or sci-fi territory. Of course, the other big draw back in the 80's was the fact that the show when it first aired on pay cable television certainly didn't skimp on the tasty gratuitous nudity, sizzling soft-core sex, and grisly violence. Alas, the show lost its uniquely harsh identity when it was picked up for commercial television by the USA Network, but the first four strong pay cable TV seasons are well worth checking out for fans of decidedly dark and edgy adult omnibus fare.
lazarillo OK, I admit I have a misguided, nostalgic affection for this 80's anthology series because it was on HBO back when I was a young impressionable teenager, and the episodes always had a dose of gratuitous nudity back in the days before I had too much knowledge of real women (or had gotten Cinemax). The series is loosely tied together by the most blow-dried and handsome hitchhiker you've ever seen (Page Fletcher), who narrates to the camera, cocking his head slightly back and making portentious and often non-sensical comments that usually only peripherally connect to the story he's apparently narrating. He also never actually seems to get a ride, or really interact with anyone in the world of the series at all.(He has some great theme music though).The stories are an uneven mixture. Some of them are pretty creepy, while others are more silly, and still others are downright stupid. Some of the best are "Man's Best Friend" with Michael O'Keefe, "WGOD" with Gary Busey, and "Face to Face" with Robert Vaugn and Sybil Danning in red lingerie (the better for Vaugn, playing a hedonistic plastic surgeon, to cut off with a scalpel so he can snort cocaine off her breasts). Both the good and bad episodes contain a lot of second-tier stars mercilessly chewing the scenery and sometimes each other (i.e. Vaugn and Danning). There's also some unusual appearances by European-based actors like Ornella Muti or Susan Anspach, or some actors who later went on to bigger things like Bill Paxton or Michael Madsen. If you look closely you'll also recognize some name directors in the credits like the Australian Philip Noyce back in his pre "Dead Calm", pre-Hollywood days.The best way to see this series ironically is to buy the used, out-of-print VHS copies which mostly focus on the early seasons; the three US DVD compilations are totally random and have a pretty sorry good episode/lame episode ratio. The show was apparently Canadian and is also available there, but--buyer beware--the Canadian DVD seasons are completely different than the American ones (although I guess if you ARE Canadian you don't really need to beware). Not recommended for everybody, but you know who you are.
preppy-3 Anthology series from HBO. Each episode started with a hitchhiker (a young hunky man) talking to the camera and introducing characters and tales. There were all horror stories which didn't shy away from nudity or explicit gore and violence.The first season was wretched. The stories were painfully obvious, the acting was terrible, there was non-existent production values and every episode had pointless female nudity--it seemed like a Playboy version of "The Twilight Zone". Only the hitcher himself made it OK. He was handsome and young. Things changed the second season. They got a new hitcher and went out of their way to show what a nice butt he had:) The female nudity was toned down. The stories got better, they got some top-rank film directors (Paul Verhoeven directed one) and even the acting improved. It ended up being a pretty good series. It's not for everybody and the first season was a wash-out. But if you're into horror stories this is for you. Recommended.
billyjacqueshollier I never saw the HBO episodes unedited (My parents refused to get HBO). However, I began to date a girl who liked shows like this and I became hooked.At one point in the series the hitchhiker seem to be Paris. How could a hitchhiker have the money to hike in Europe? My only problem with the show was Page Fletcher--well not so much Page Fletcher but a particular part of Page Fletcher that the directors seem to like a lot--his butt. Apparently a lot of women watched this show as well and liked his tight jeans shots (that's what I read). Maybe all the directors' close up Fletcher's caboose help to introduce the sagging jeans era that rap popularized! Hopefully if the sells of the DVD goes well the show will be put back into late-night syndication.