After being harassed by a couple of punks, a young woman picks up an old lady standing at the roadside in the rain.
Direction
Dearden squeezes feature-length tension into 25 minutes.
Acting
Avis Bunnage's kindly menace will haunt you.
Editing
Ruthless cuts leave zero breathing room.
Director
James Dearden
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
James Dearden later wrote Fatal Attraction; this is basically his audition tape for suburban dread.
Made for British TV's 'Dead of Night' anthology, it helped establish the 'killer hitchhiker' trope that dominated 80s horror.
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