GUENOT PHILIPPE
I don't believe that no user at all has noted the obvious relation between Robert Harmon's HITCHER and this item of course made long before. I gues you have many gems of tis kind lost in distributors vaults and not necessarily released thu DVD. I won't add much but just enjoy...
AlanBryan2112
8 out of 10. I never heard of this until I saw it on RARO's (new) website. It's damn good. A Very Intense Film! What didn't I like? Some of the overly repeated bits in Morricone's score. Okay, there is violence, nudity, sex, rape, murder, insanity, car crashes, motorcycles, CHiPs, theft, misogyny, greed, selfishness and a great deal of barren road. Italy subs for Southern Cali in this movie. Poor Eve. Poor Adam. "God will get you for that Walter! " is from a sitcom, but karma may catch up to Nero's poor drunken Walter. Product Placement! KFC, Texaco, Carlton cigarettes and other brands, Coke, Pepsi and more. They are brief, but look for the Colonel Sanders cameo! (twice!). Recommend for fans of road trip films, Franco Nero fans, and camping enthusiasts. I had to ask myself this: In the scene by the waterfall Nero has put a table and 4 chairs in the grass as he and Adam chat. Eve is cooking. So there are only three people. Why four chairs? it bugged me.
punishmentpark
A psychological road-thriller, mixed with exploitation elements and the voice used to dub David Hess laughs like Elmer Fudd... That last detail is a good indication for how silly the film is at moments. I can't say it never works, the psychological warfare comes off pretty good at times, but overall the plot is too contrived and the characters / actors fail to get the right mood across - it basically gets stuck in the b-movie exploitation genre. Nothing wrong with the latter in itself, but the obvious intentions to get the audience thinking about all kinds of issues did hardly work for me.The part where Adam is left for dead and right after, a mysterious big truck turns up trying to run them off the road and everyone is going "What the hell does he want?!", supposedly not having a clue as to who that might be, is a particular low, apart from the fact that it is a poor attempt at a twist and it's just a rip-off from 'Duel'. The twist(s) at the end didn't work well either, particularly because Eve, having suffered the most in all of what went on before, should have come out on top. But also it feels way too contrived.Just don't expect too much and you'll be able to enjoy some pretty neat camera-work, some okay action, a little gore, some fine nudity and some okay acting (voice-dubbing is pretty much always a problem there).5 out of 10.
radiobirdma
No, they don't do movies like this anymore. A tough one about self-hatred, mayhem and self- destruction: Franco Nero as a down-&-out reporter, Corinne Clery as his sexy, completely hollow spouse, plus David Hess doing his usual good- humored-and-mean-as-hell thing. "Autostop Rosso Sangue" is sleazy, sexist, ultra-violent, but not without some unforgettable moments: The naked Clery in front of a trailer holding a huge rifle in the middle of the night is like a hastily written, edgy but brilliant poem found in a tattered paperback left in a cheap motel. For a few short hours in his life, Pasquale Festa Campanile, creator of some of the worst Euro comedies ever, turned into a poète maudit of the most cynical kind. This is the kind of grindhouse cinema nobody can embrace with seventies nostalgia: mature, brutal, knowing, never "cool", always cold, gripping and utterly nihilistic. Anything else you would ask for?
