Robert Harmon
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Their love story is scored to Carla Thomas’s “B-A-B-Y,” Martha Reeves & the Vandellas’ “Nowhere to Run,” and Brenda Holloway’s “Every Little Bit Hurts,” each trenchantly expressing moments of romance, excitement, and fear.
Widowed dad Istvan Kovak (Rutger Hauer, "The Hitcher") is uncomfortably pushy about the dead with the young boy, including the corpse of his own mother.
Imagine “The Hitcher” without the psychotic Rutger Hauer.
Two movies in particular were attacked by Siskel and Ebert with such venom, I Spit on Your Grave (1978) and The Hitcher (1986), that those kinds of horror movies were immediately frowned upon by all mainstream movie people, press and artists.
Even in the post-Scream world of self-awareness and irony, Harmon and screenwriter Brendan Hood are somehow perfectly at home pillaging every single horror movie cliché imaginable -- from the POV shot peering at the heroine through slats of wood, to the entire swimming pool sequence in Cat People -- and using them straight.
Some might be thinking that the combination of the filmmaker responsible for "The Hitcher" and the creative force behind the likes of the "Scream" and "Nightmare on Elm Street" movies sounds like a good idea.
As Lucas's mob contact, Armand Assante ("The Mambo Kings," TV's "Gotti") is slick but not sinister.
And so a game of cat and mouse, recalling portions of Steven Spielberg’s Duel and Robert Harmon’s The Hitcher , is kicked into motion.
“Unhinged” falls back on a reliable trope: Spielberg showed in “Duel” and Robert Harmon in “The Hitcher” that crazed drivers can deliver exhilaration in movies full of twists and turns.
At one point, he lowers his voice and shudders "They come for me when it's dark," attempting -- and failing -- to mimic Haley Joel Osment's terrifying line readings from The Sixth Sense.