Is The Hitcher actually good?

The Hitcher sits in the 82.3% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 82.3% of them.

How does The Hitcher compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, The Hitcher lands in the 80.6% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is The Hitcher's score based on?

257 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Hitcher's score.

1986

global pct

82.3

Film · 1986 · Films · 1980s

The Hitcher

Name: The Hitcher
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Released: 1986

Scored from 257 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

82.3%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

80.6%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

97.0%

AI-adjusted percentile

257 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A young man driving a car cross-country from Chicago to San Diego picks up a mysterious hitchhiker who turns out to be a sadistic killer. After narrowly escaping, the driver finds himself relentlessly stalked across the Texas desert and framed for the hitcher's escalating murders, forcing a desperate cat-and-mouse confrontation with the police closing in on the wrong man.

The Hitcher is a 1986 mystery and thriller film.

3,140 other films from the 1980s form the cohort it is ranked inside. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 1,401 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 257 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 259 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.