Hitch Hike

Starring:Franco Nero, Corinne Clery, David Hess, Joshua Sinclair, Carlo Puri, Ignazio Spalla, Leonardo Scavino, MÃ³nica Zanchi, Benito Pacifico, Angelo Ragusa, Luigi Birri, Robert Sommer, Ann Ferguson, Fausto Di Bella
Director: Pasquale Festa Campanile
Studio: Anchor Bay
Product Type: DVD

Average customer rating:

Who Wants To Ride With David Hess?
Worth seeing for David Hess and Corinne Clery alone...
Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy was scarier.
"The Devil Thumbs a Ride"
Joy Ride

Hitch Hike
Starring: Franco Nero , Corinne Clery , David Hess , Joshua Sinclair , and Carlo Puri
Director: Pasquale Festa Campanile
Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

General | Action & Adventure | Genres | DVD | Video

General | Art House & International | Genres | DVD | Video

General | Horror | Genres | DVD | Video

General | Mystery & Suspense | Genres | DVD | Video

General | Foreign & International | Stores | DVD | Video

DVDs Under $14.99 | Today's Deals in DVD | Special Features | DVD | Video

( H ) | Titles | Features | DVD | Video
Similar Items:

The House on the Edge of the Park
Beast With A Gun
The Story of O
Lie With Me
Devil in the Flesh

ASIN: B000069HOX
Release Date: 2002-07-23

Customer Reviews:

Who Wants To Ride With David Hess?.......2007-02-26

When a movie's got two mean mothers like Franco Nero and David Hess, you know interesting things'll happen. These guys teach us the dangers of picking up hitch hikers long before Rutger Hauer and C Thomas Howell did(they did a great job as well). No point in really going into the story, coz it's pretty much what you expect. A couple picking up a psychotic hitch hiker who makes their day very, very crappy. Kinda like House On The Edge Of The Park on the road. I've always loved Franco Nero, and this movie further solidifies that. It may not be the best acting he's ever done, but he actually plays a very slimy and unlikable guy...and he's not even the so called "villain"! You're used to Nero being rather heroic. Sure, he sometimes plays flawed and sometimes downright mean characters, but nothing like this. Clery is just there for eye candy, but she does become more important as the film goes on. David Hess is...David Hess, and we couldn't love him more for it. Still looks meaner and sleazier than hell(come on, would anybody really pick this guy up?), slaps , rapes and terrorizes women, calls everyone [...], and is just all around fun. Though the whole idea of the film may not seem totally original anymore, the ending is. Check it out before they remake this one too.

Worth seeing for David Hess and Corinne Clery alone..........2004-08-04

Hitch-Hike is a little known italian film that has its share of memorable moments. The film revolves around an attractive couple (Franco Nero, the stunning Corinne Clery) travelling cross country who pick up a psychopathic and sadistic hitchhiker (David Hess) who is on the run for committing a violent robbery.
This is a sleazy exercise in misogny with David Hess (Last House on the Left, House on the Edge of the Park) assuming his usual ugly role. However, this film differs from Last House on the Left and House on the Edge of the Park as the female protagonist is abused not only by the psychotic Hess but her alcoholic, boorish husband. The viewer is left to ponder who is the real bad guy in this excursion.
For fans of exploitation and sleaze films, there is much here to behold as the leggy Corinne Clery is quite the beauty and shows quite a bit of skin throughout her ordeal. The unpleasant sexual violence of Last House on the Left is here also, though mercifully more muted here than in that film.
The film is very well paced and much of the interaction between the three main characters is believable and suitably intense. There are also some major plot twists that I will not reveal here, that keep things interesting for this film which is admittedly overlong.
Anchor Bay has done a fine job with this DVD. The audio and video are very nice. The new documentary, The Devil Thumbs A Ride is interesting and insightful, once again in large part due to the participation of Hess and Clery.
In closing, this film is nothing special, but still worth a watch for fans of italian cinema who enjoy copious amounts of sex and violence in their films.

Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy was scarier........2004-05-08

Hitch-hike is one of those small movies you watch becouse you hope that becouse of it's budget they would spend some real quality time on the script and try to make up for it by giving us a good move ie- Night Of The Living Dead, Holloween, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Mad Max, and Blair Witch.

So it sould come as no surprise that this film is as bad as those movies are good. David Hess plays a hitch hiker picked up by a husband and wife couple. After getting into thier car he reeks havok with thier lives. I don't know if the movie The Hicher with Rutger Hauer came before or after this but either way it is a much better film. THat movie was suspensefull where as this movie is just tiersome. By the end you don't really care who wins just that the movie ends.

"The Devil Thumbs a Ride".......2003-12-29

Ah, the wonderful warped world of David Hess. How I love it.

Ever since the first time I saw "Last House On The Left" - I've been infatuated with this man's ability to be a monster. He's tremendous at it, and that's what compelled me to buy this movie sight unseen. What do I think? Well,...

"Last House On The Left" and "House On The Edge Of The Park" are a couple of my favorite movies of all time. This coupled with the knowledge I've read on the internet claiming the character Hess plays in this movie is very similar to the aforementioned 2, I had to check it out. David Hess is outstanding in the movie as his usual typecast character. But the movie, umm well, it's ok.

The film is about a husband and wife that pick up a hitch-hiker (David Hess) and trouble obviously ensues. The plot is a little weak, (ok, very weak) - and the audio is a little out of sync. But the movie moves along at a surprisingly quick pace, being that there isn't THAT much killing and/or violence. There are some quality dialogue from Hess and Franco and some quality shots of the wife (I forget her name) nude. Small amounts of violence scattered throughout. (Though not nearly as much as I was hoping for)

In comparing this movie to Last House and House On the Edge, I would have to say it is a failure. However, looking as a stand alone movie without comparing it to the aforementioned films, I would say it is an enjoyable way to spend an hour and a half, even if it's just for Hess's faces and dialogue and the wife's body.

The dvd looked good for the year the film was made and the budget I'm sure it was made on. Pretty clear, not too much grain or dirt. The audio is acceptable and there are a couple extras on the disc, a trailer and a few interviews with the cast.

Story: C-
Violence: C-
Nudity: B-
Comedy (Intentional or Unintentional): B
Overall Entertainment Grade: C+

Joy Ride.......2003-06-09

Talk about movies for guys who like movies, this is one joy ride for sure!!! David Hess deserves the Best Actor Oscar for this completely ridiculous performance that makes you laugh one second, then become slack-jawed the next. For the fellas, we get bush, nice boobs and some good action.....for the chicks, you might want to rent another flick...haha.....ENJOY!!!

Average customer rating:

EXPLOITATION DOUBLE FEATURE!! WILD
PULP THAT PURRS!
Bad b-movie trash.

Hitch Hike to Hell/Kidnapped Coed
Starring: Jim Blankinship , Elizabeth Allan Burger , Jack Canon , Marvin G. Crosland , and Larry Drake
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

General | Action & Adventure | Genres | DVD | Video

Suspense | Mystery & Suspense | Genres | DVD | Video

Mystery | Mystery & Suspense | Genres | DVD | Video

General | Mystery & Suspense | Genres | DVD | Video

DVDs Under $9.99 | Today's Deals in DVD | Special Features | DVD | Video

( H ) | Titles | Features | DVD | Video
Similar Items:

A Smell of Honey, a Swallow of Brine / The Brick Dollhouse (Something Weird)
The Beautiful, the Bloody, and the Bare / Behind Locked Doors (Something Weird)
Beauties & Beasts Box (Night of the Bloody Apes/ Feast of Flesh / Mighty Gorga / One Million AC/DC / The Beast that Killed Women / The Monster of Camp Sunshine) (Something Weird)
A Scream in the Streets
The Toy Box / Toys Are Not for Children

ASIN: B0000633SP
Release Date: 2002-04-02

Description

Hitchhike to Hell (1968, 87 min.) - Teenage runaways Hitchhike to Hell when they accept a ride from Howard, an innocent-looking mama's boy who loves giving rides to pretty young gals. Unfortunately, he also loves killing them. Like a big bad wolf in a red delivery van, Howard searches the highway for sexy hitchhikers despite the efforts of police Captain Shaw (Russell Johnson, the Professor on "Gilligan's Island") to stop him. "Kidnapped Coed" (1978, 75 min.) - Rich girl Sandra Morley becomes a Kidnapped Coed when she's held for ransom by Eddie Mattlock, yet another mama's boy gone bad. After they're attacked by two sleazy psychos at a seedy hotel, the couple take to the back roads of the Carolinas, encounter an extremely odd assortment of humanity. Remember, kids: There's No Such Thing as a Free Ride!

Customer Reviews:

EXPLOITATION DOUBLE FEATURE!! WILD.......2003-02-06

Something weird has put two really strange films together here. The first is Hitch Hike To Hell in which a deranged man in a dry cleaning delivery van kidnaps women who are hitchhiking and then proceeds to rape and kill them. There is a shocking murder of a child (it isn't seen on screen) that really has an impact. Russell Johnson (Professor on Gilligan's Island) is a policeman assigned to the case. Very odd, but well made film.
The second film is Kidnapped Coed, and this is a film about a kidnapped girl who falls in love with her captor, and he with her. They go on a crime spree together. A great twist ending to this one. The extras are good on this disc, but the highlight is a tour thru Harry Novac's Boxoffice International studios. That is a great 30 minutes. All in all a great disc well worth the money.

PULP THAT PURRS!.......2002-07-18

One of the best discs yet released by SWV, this little beauty sports two awesome features and a slew of even better extras. "Hitchhike to Hell" is undoubtedly the weaker of the two features, but is nonetheless a laugh riot. The lead actor veers from one extreme to another with such scenery-chewing abandon as to be a marvel unto himself. Half the time he's acting like Lenny from an "Of Mice and Men" production staged by a particularly talentless community theater. The other half of the running time finds him screaming and going as psycho as Norman Bates would have had "Psycho" really sucked. "Kidnapped Coed" is a much better film. The acting (particularly from Friedle regular Jack Cannon) is solid. The story manages to be fairly compelling in its own pulpy way and some of the scenes are actually quite remarkable. Though pacey and far from perfect, it is a solid piece of work from an underappreciated director. As for the extras, I must crown the animated short "The Cautious Twins" as King of School Scare Cinema. This rhyme-narrated little ditty follows the titular twins as they play in the park, attend a movie and walk the streets in what has to qualify as the most depraved town in America. These poor kids can't go two feet without confronting yet another touch-feely stranger offering candy or a free ride. Hilarious!

Bad b-movie trash........2002-06-21

Here is my take on the two films on this DVD:

HITCH HIKE TO HELL - The movie "Hitchhike To Hell" centers around a deranged laundry deliveryman named Howard. He uses his company van to pick up hitchhikers and kill them. The reason Howard does this is because six years ago his little sister ran away from home and never returned. It completely devastated their mother and Howard is determined to punish young people who want to run away from their mommies.

Not surprisingly, every single facet of this movie is atrocious. From the acting to the direction, from the cinematography to the worthless plot...this is one awful flick. Not a shred of humor is to be found in this macabre tale. It is simply a monotonous pattern of showing Howard picking up hitchhikers and killing them. Terrible!

KIDNAPPED COED - You would never guess that "The Kidnapped Coed" clocks in at a mere 76 minutes. At times, it seemed like an eternity.

I would like to state that I am definitely not someone who needs violent action or gratuitous nudity every few minutes in a movie. However, I do enjoy some dialogue every once in a while. The dramatic pauses in "Kidnapped Coed" are long enough that you could take a solid nap during one. It gets awfully boring sitting around for a full two minutes looking at the main characters and waiting for one of them to actually say something. With tighter editing, this film could have been cut down to about half an hour and none of the plot would have been lost.

"Kidnapped Coed" is about the following: Man kidnaps young woman. He holds her for ransom. Woman falls in love with kidnapper. They spend a lot of time doing absolutely nothing.

The only positive thing I can really say about this little flick is that it has surprisingly good cinematography. A couple of the shots were very nicely set up. Too bad the rest of the film lacked that quality.

DVD EXTRAS: As usual, Something Weird has a knack for including shorts that are more interesting than the movies. This one is no different. An arcade short, a cartoon short and an educational short are all included for your viewing pleasure.

DVD:

DVD List

DVD

DVD

Snare Drum Basics-DVD

Max

Ancient Evil: Scream of the Mummy [P&S] (REGION 1) (NTSC

DVD: Kennedy

Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.