The Hitcher

The Hitcher (1986) is a chilling psychological thriller about young driver Jim Halsey (C. Thomas Howell) who picks up a mysterious, menacing hitchhiker, John Ryder (Rutger Hauer), only to discover he's a serial killer; after escaping, Jim is relentlessly hunted and framed by Ryder, turning a desert road trip into a brutal, nightmarish game of cat-and-mouse with the police also after him, aided only by truck-stop waitress Nash (Jennifer Jason Leigh)