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Hitch Hike to Hell (1977)

R Jan 01, 1977 Crime, Mystery 1h 28m
52%
User Score
5.0/10

There is no such thing as a free ride!!

Overview

Howard is mild-mannered and slightly simple-minded, with a habit of picking up teenage hitchhikers while driving his delivery routes. Sometimes the girls admit to being runaways, and if they claim to hate their mothers it drives Howard into a violent frenzy; his sister ran away from home years ago and was never heard from again, causing his desperate, addled mother to tighten her hold on him. Howard never remembers raping his victims or strangling them with wire coat hangers, though his boss does notice missed deliveries and late arrivals.

Irvin Berwick
Director
John Buckley
Screenplay

Top Billed Cast

Robert Gribbin
Robert Gribbin

Howard Martin
Russell Johnson
Russell Johnson

Captain J.W. Shaw
Dorothy Bennett
Dorothy Bennett

Mrs. Martin
John Harmon
John Harmon

Mr. Baldwin
Randy Echols
Randy Echols

Lt. Davis
Mary Ellen Christie
Mary Ellen Christie

Mrs. Burke
Kippi Bell
Kippi Bell

Evelyn Davis
Sheryl Lynn
Sheryl Lynn

Lisa
John Grant
John Grant

Mr. Burke

Full Cast & Crew

Media

Hitch Hike to Hell (1983) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD]
Hitch Hike to Hell (1983) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD]
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A review by Wuchak
Written on November 17, 2024

**_Simple-but-effective tale about a mentally ill mama’s boy preying on hitchhikers_**

As female runaways turn up dead in a town of Greater Los Angeles, the chief of police and his partner (Russell Johnson and Randy Echols) zero-in on an unassuming delivery man for a laundry cleaning business (Robert Gribbin).

"Hitch Hike to Hell" (1977) is a ‘B’ flick with a simple story and prosaic delivery featuring an antagonist reminiscent of Clark Kent and the police chief played by The Professor from Gilligan’s Island.

Speaking of whom, the captain makes a reference to three serial killers that were popular at the time: The Zodiac Killer in San Francisco (who has never been identified), The Skid Row Slasher in Los Angeles (who turned out to be Vaughan Greenwood) and The Houston Mas...

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