The Hitcher

"This underrated film starring Rutger Hauer and C. Thomas Howell is similar in style and tone to Steven Spielberg's Duel and offers a very good video and audio transfer to the suspense-genre fan, if not much else. The anamorphic widescreen transfer captures the claustrophobic sense of entrapment the characters feel as they are pursued by a dangerous rogue hitchhiker on a cross-country trip. The audio, offered in either in 5:1 Dolby Digital or Dolby Surround, keeps viewers on the edge of their seats with piercing wind blowing through the back speakers and an eerie atonal musical score. The extras on the disc are minimal, including simple cast and crew bios and a theatrical trailer. Don't look for alternate languages, as there are none. Subtitles are in English, French, and Spanish."