This movie started in interesting fashion, with a driver picking up a hitchhiker and some relatively minor chit-chat happening until the hitcher asks if the driver is interested in guys (the hitcher himself is a man as well). At that point, the driver kicks him out, and you're left wondering just what is happening here. But that doesn't last long.
Next up, the driver pulls his truck over and opens up the bed of the truck to reveal a girl, bound and tied, and we get to see her dig her own grave, before (presumably) being killed by the driver of the truck. This isn't actually shown, which would probably increase the suspense a bit, but it's really a bit early on to do much more than whet the appetite. Shift to another car load, and you're still wondering what's happening.
This car contains several girls, on a road trip of their own, and they see a shadowy figure walking, and the driver decides that since they are way out in the middle of nowhere, they ought to stop and pick him up - or at least see if they can be of some sort of help. Despite the pleading of her girlfriends to not do so, she does. The man on the side of the road is, of course, the driver of the truck, who just finished killing the other girl.
Incidentally, he wasn't hitching. So perhaps the title refers instead to the guy who was at the beginning. I'm not exactly sure. But it seems that we have out culprit here, we just have to see how he's going to play his game. At this point, it seems like he uses something to get in good with his victims, ties them up and kills them - but there's no telling exactly how he does that just yet.
A little ways down the road, the girls stop at a motel because the car seems to have some engine trouble. Odd, because the mysterious man doesn't really have any chance to do anything, so I guess it's just a plot device to move things forward. If that didn't happen, then the movie never would have anything to work with. But since it did, they stop, and ask for directions to a garage or something. The nearest one is a ways down the road, and it doesn't open until the morning, so they decide to stay the night. Of course they do.
Over the course of the night, one of the women - and not one of the single women (this is an important point) decides that she'd like to spend a little quality time with their new friend. The next morning, when the tow truck arrives, he gets up early and heads out to pick up his truck, then comes back and decides to take the girls hostage in their little love nest.
This includes some forcible affection, if not downright rape, and definitely some nudity on the part of the girls, and lots of gratuitous screaming on their parts, but what good slasher flick would be without both of those things? For that matter, what bad slasher flick would be without them?
In the process, we find that the man has a problem with women, and specifically with women who have a prior commitment, but decide to break that commitment, even if it is to be with him. When that happens, he decides to teach them a little lesson. Strangely, this affects even women who have no commitment. Apparently they are just supposed to settle down and have babies or something.
So on and on it goes (even though the movie is a trim 89 minutes), and more people show up at this motel, the proprietor ends up dead, the police show up, and eventually our psycho killer has to wipe out just about everyone. Except for the girl who he thinks shares a connection with him. Her, he saves. But she ends up having some sort of internal strength, and she gets out alive along with one other girl.
The only problem is, when the killer is schedule to go to trial, he instead shows up on her doorstep to express his undying love. At that point, she shows him that she really did learn from him - learned how to kill, and this she does. Really rather corny.
Not Rated, but plenty of violence, adult language and nudity to go around.
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