The Hitcher (1986) (NM RM 1080p BluRay x264 HEVC 10bit AAC 5.1 Co...

The Hitcher  (1986), directed by Robert Harmon, Nameless Media remaster, encoded in 10 bit HEVC with AAC sound, including 5.1 remaster, two commentary tracks, and English and German subtitles. IMDb : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091209/ Video encoded in two-pass 12.0 Mbps x265 10bit with the veryslow preset for archive quality image. Audio encoded separately with Apple AAC for the highest-quality AAC sound available. Text subtitles converted to SRT. Image subtitles converted to VobSub and repositioned. Note : As cinema moved into the 80s, the exploitation film also changed, turning to ultra-violent revenge thrillers and semi-slashers, where vigilante-style payback was the order of the day. All of these films are pretty trashy, but not all of them are trash, and this is one of the best, a relentless spree of mayhem headlined by Rutger Hauer, who plays antagonist Ryder not so much as a sociopathic murderer as an unstoppable force of destruction and death, who's both single-minded and carefree at once. The rest of the cast doesn't have to do that much when Hauer's going this fucking hard, and indeed it doesn't, except for Jennifer Jason Leigh, who's much better than she needs to be, and C. Thomas Howell, who's fine as the increasingly frantic protagonist. Halsey is driving a car to deliver it from Chicago to San Diego, and picks up a hitchhiker in the West Texas desert during a rainstorm. The hitchhiker, Ryder, forces Halsey to keep driving when they pass a stranded car, and tells Halsey he murdered the driver, and will do the same to him, holding him at knifepoint. Ryder tells him he wants Halsey to stop him, before Halsey managed to kick him out of the moving car. However, Ryder isn't done, and the next time Halsey seems him, he's hitched a ride with a family who Halsey later finds murdered. Ryder continues to play games with Halsey as Halsey becomes a suspect in the murders, and the only one who believes in him is waitress Nash, and as the bodycount rises, it may be that Halsey is indeed the only one who can stop Ryder. This German remaster is not great, but decent enough, fairly filmic looking with ok color and contrast, a little soft, but generally ok. The 5.1 track sounds good, and both the commentary tracks are worth listening to, especially the one with Rutger Hauer. Hot tip  Quote:HeVK torrents always have lots of keywords. Try searching for “hevk slasher” for more seemingly unstoppable killers with an unhealthy fixation on young people, “hevk roadmovie” for more stories about highways, or “hevk 80s” for more from the decade when Rutger Hauer didn't see a villain role he didn't like. 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Feldman, composer Mark Isham, cinematographer John Seale and actors Rutger Hauer & C. Thomas Howell / English Text #1 : SRT / 21 b/s / English Text #2 : VobSub / 3 049 b/s / German Chapters : 00:00:00.000 : Chapter 1 00:06:04.875 : Chapter 2 00:10:30.042 : Chapter 3 00:17:08.792 : Chapter 4 00:23:27.917 : Chapter 5 00:35:16.583 : Chapter 6 00:42:05.292 : Chapter 7 00:52:24.708 : Chapter 8 00:59:45.417 : Chapter 9 01:06:34.042 : Chapter 10 01:14:14.375 : Chapter 11 01:25:33.167 : Chapter 12  Source information  Code:Encoded from The.Hitcher.1986.1080p.BluRay.Remux.AVC.DTS-HD.MA.5.1-PmP.mkv [33.2 Mb/s] Thanks!  Note from HeVK  Quote:Feel free to upload this torrent or file wherever you like, just please keep the HeVK tag in the filename/torrent name. Look for more high quality HeVK encodes in the near future!