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'''HarmfulToHitchhikers''' is the InvertedTrope, in which ''the driver'' is the homicidal maniac that ''the hitchhiker'' needs to beware of. This overlaps with BadSamaritan. If they're ''really'' unsubtle about it, they might even be driving around in a CreepyStalkerVan.
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* A 1983 ''Creator/{{ABC}} Series/AfterschoolSpecial'' called "Andrea's Story: A Hitchhiking Tragedy" was about a girl dealing with the aftermath of being raped while hitchhiking.
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* A 1983 ''Creator/{{ABC}} ''[[Creator/AmericanBroadcastingCompany ABC]] Series/AfterschoolSpecial'' called "Andrea's Story: A Hitchhiking Tragedy" was about a girl dealing with the aftermath of being raped while hitchhiking.
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* ''Film/PeeWeesBigAdventure'' subverts this. Early on in his journey, Pee Wee hitches a ride with Mickey, who is quickly established as an escaped convict. However, he never harms Pee Wee and even lets him drive. When Pee Wee crashes the car and almost kills them, he still doesn't kill him but instead forces him to find new transportation.
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* ''Film/PeeWeesBigAdventure'' subverts [[SubvertedTrope subverts]] this. Early on in his journey, Pee Wee hitches a ride with Mickey, who is quickly established as an escaped convict. However, he never harms Pee Wee and even lets him drive. When Pee Wee crashes the car and almost kills them, he still doesn't kill him but instead forces him to find new transportation.
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[SchmuckBait Seems Legit.]]]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[SchmuckBait Seems Legit.legit.]]]]
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* In S.E. Hinton's ''Tex'' the title character saves his older brother's life when a hitchhiker pulls a gun on them.
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* In S.E. Hinton's ''Tex'' Inverted, then played straight with justification in ''Literature/DaughtersOfDarkness1996''. When the title character saves his older brother's life when Redfern sisters get dropped off at the bus station near Briar Creek, their aunt Opal isn't waiting for them as planned. They end up getting a hitchhiker pulls a gun lift from two local boys, Todd and Vic, but they make it clear they're not helping them from the goodness of their hearts and [[AttemptedRape expect sexual favors]]. The sisters turn the tables on them.the boys, overpowering them and drinking their blood, then hypnotizing them into forgetting.
* ''Literature/TheExecutioner''. In "Brothers in Blood", Mack Bolan stops to pick up a couple of men whose car has supposedly broken down in the desert. They turn out to be a professional hit team sent to kill him. Bolan feels bad when he has to turn down a genuine hitchhiker later on, because he's worried about the same thing happening again.
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* ''Literature/TheExecutioner''. In "Brothers in Blood", Mack Bolan stops to pick up a couple of men whose car has supposedly broken down in the desert. They turn out to be a professional hit team sent to kill him. Bolan feels bad when he has to turn down a genuine hitchhiker later on, because he's worried about the same thing happening again.
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* In S.E. Hinton's ''Tex'' the title character saves his older brother's life when a hitchhiker pulls a gun on them.
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* ''WebVideo/UnwantedHouseguest'': Episode Six of "TRUE Scary Stories" features one.
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* ''Film/InFear'': Following a harrowing encounter with their stalker, the couple is frantically driving down the road and accidentally hit a man standing in the middle of the road. He crawls into their car, but doesn't seem malicious—and claims to have been attacked himself by the same guy. Giving him the benefit of the doubt, they allow him to tag along as they try to find the main road, and he appears to try and help them out at first by giving them directions. [[spoiler: As it turns out, [[WoundedGazelleGambit he cut his own face and intentionally allowed himself to be hit]]. He is later revealed to not only be the guy who's been tormenting them the entire night but turns out to be a serial killer that is behind everything and has presumably had several other victims in the past.]]
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* ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'': PlayedForLaughs and downplayed in one episode where Francis hitchhikes with a truck driver who exchanges his passengers suffering humiliating pranks from him for mileage. The passengers ''could'' just get out and walk, [[AnOfferYouCantRefuse but oh yeah]], it's the middle of winter and they'll probably get frostbite or have a very miserable time if they do that.
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* ''Film/TheHitcher'' (1986) is about a driver who is stalked and manipulated by a hitchhiking spree killer after foiling the man's direct attempt on his life. Screenwriter Eric Red said the story was inspired by Music/TheDoors' song "Riders on the Storm." Was remade in 2007.
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* Downplayed in ''Film/ThelmaAndLouise'', in which an otherwise friendly hitchhiker ends up stealing all their money.
* The 1953 film ''Film/TheHitchHiker'' is about a hitchhiking robber/murderer in the southwestern U.S. who, after a RunForTheBorder, gets picked up by two vacationing Americans. He forces them to transport him south through Baja California, intending to kill them when he reaches his planned destination.
* The AntiHero protagonist Nomi Malone from ''Film/{{Showgirls}}'' thumbs a ride to Las Vegas from a man in a pick-up truck. En route, the man suggests sex-for-mileage; Nomi and her switchblade vehemently disagree. BookEnds with the closing scene, where Nomi thumbs a ride to Los Angeles with the exact same man and pick-up truck. She shrieks, "You stole my luggage!" and resumes slashing at him while he's driving.
* There is a hitchhiking SerialKiller on the loose in the comedy ''Film/TheresSomethingAboutMary''. The cops find the body he was carrying and peg the main character as a guy who kills hitchhikers, starting a hilarious MistakenConfession.
* ''Film/TheTexasChainSawMassacre1974'': A hitchhiker travels with the group for a bit and start talking about his family who worked at the old slaughterhouse. He borrows Franklin's pocket-knife and cuts himself, then takes a Polaroid picture of the others and demands money for it. When they refuse to pay, he burns the photo and slashes Franklin's arm with a straight razor. The group forces him out of the van and drive on. It then gets worse when, later in the film, we find out the hitchhiker is Leatherface’s younger brother Nubbins, and he decides to exact some payback on Sally with aid from both Leatherface and the family’s patriarch Drayton.
* The 1953 film ''Film/TheHitchHiker'' is about a hitchhiking robber/murderer in the southwestern U.S. who, after a RunForTheBorder, gets picked up by two vacationing Americans. He forces them to transport him south through Baja California, intending to kill them when he reaches his planned destination.
* The AntiHero protagonist Nomi Malone from ''Film/{{Showgirls}}'' thumbs a ride to Las Vegas from a man in a pick-up truck. En route, the man suggests sex-for-mileage; Nomi and her switchblade vehemently disagree. BookEnds with the closing scene, where Nomi thumbs a ride to Los Angeles with the exact same man and pick-up truck. She shrieks, "You stole my luggage!" and resumes slashing at him while he's driving.
* There is a hitchhiking SerialKiller on the loose in the comedy ''Film/TheresSomethingAboutMary''. The cops find the body he was carrying and peg the main character as a guy who kills hitchhikers, starting a hilarious MistakenConfession.
* ''Film/TheTexasChainSawMassacre1974'': A hitchhiker travels with the group for a bit and start talking about his family who worked at the old slaughterhouse. He borrows Franklin's pocket-knife and cuts himself, then takes a Polaroid picture of the others and demands money for it. When they refuse to pay, he burns the photo and slashes Franklin's arm with a straight razor. The group forces him out of the van and drive on. It then gets worse when, later in the film, we find out the hitchhiker is Leatherface’s younger brother Nubbins, and he decides to exact some payback on Sally with aid from both Leatherface and the family’s patriarch Drayton.
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* In ''The Hitchhiker'' (Creator/TheAsylum's {{Mockbuster}} of the 2007 remake of ''Film/TheHitcher''), the title character befriends four road-tripping party girls who pick him up, then imprisons them in a hotel room and tortures them.
* In ''Film/MacheteKills'', the shape-shifting assassin El Chameleon, in the form of Music/LadyGaga, wanders the desert and acts sexy to get a trucker to stop. As soon as she gets in, she shoots him, boots the body out, and drives off.
* In the 1991 version of ''Film/AKissBeforeDying'', a character is seen hitchhiking. When he's next seen on-screen, he's using the [[DeadPersonImpersonation name and backstory]] of the driver who picked him up. Given that we've already seen this guy murder his pregnant girlfriend, it's obvious that he's done away with the driver too.
* In ''Film/MacheteKills'', the shape-shifting assassin El Chameleon, in the form of Music/LadyGaga, wanders the desert and acts sexy to get a trucker to stop. As soon as she gets in, she shoots him, boots the body out, and drives off.
* In the 1991 version of ''Film/AKissBeforeDying'', a character is seen hitchhiking. When he's next seen on-screen, he's using the [[DeadPersonImpersonation name and backstory]] of the driver who picked him up. Given that we've already seen this guy murder his pregnant girlfriend, it's obvious that he's done away with the driver too.
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* In ''Film/HellsHighway'', a sexy homicidal hitchhiker, calling herself Lucinda, commits acts of gory mayhem against unsuspecting people who pick her up off the road to help her out.
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* In ''Film/HellsHighway'', ''Film/{{Flareup}}'': Alan hitchhikes to go to Los Angeles to find Michele and murder her. Willows, the elderly man who picks him up, is friendly and chatty at first until the psychotic Alan starts saying disturbing things. Willows tries to drop him off right then, but Alan pulls a gun on him, makes him drive a bit further, then makes him get out and shoots him dead before taking his car.
* ''Film/HellsHighway'': A sexy homicidal hitchhiker, calling herself Lucinda, commits acts of gory mayhem against unsuspecting people who pick her up off the road to help herout.out.
* ''Film/TheHitcher'' (1986) is about a driver who is stalked and manipulated by a hitchhiking spree killer after foiling the man's direct attempt on his life. Screenwriter Eric Red said the story was inspired by Music/TheDoors' song "Riders on the Storm." Was remade in 2007.
* The 1953 film ''Film/TheHitchHiker'' is about a hitchhiking robber/murderer in the southwestern U.S. who, after a RunForTheBorder, gets picked up by two vacationing Americans. He forces them to transport him south through Baja California, intending to kill them when he reaches his planned destination.
* In ''The Hitchhiker'' (Creator/TheAsylum's {{Mockbuster}} of the 2007 remake of ''Film/TheHitcher''), the title character befriends four road-tripping party girls who pick him up, then imprisons them in a hotel room and tortures them.
* In the 1991 version of ''Film/AKissBeforeDying'', a character is seen hitchhiking. When he's next seen on-screen, he's using the [[DeadPersonImpersonation name and backstory]] of the driver who picked him up. Given that we've already seen this guy murder his pregnant girlfriend, it's obvious that he's done away with the driver too.
* ''Film/MacheteKills'': The shape-shifting assassin El Chameleon, in the form of Music/LadyGaga, wanders the desert and acts sexy to get a trucker to stop. As soon as she gets in, she shoots him, boots the body out, and drives off.
* ''Film/{{Showgirls}}'': The AntiHero protagonist Nomi Malone thumbs a ride to Las Vegas from a man in a pick-up truck. En route, the man suggests sex-for-mileage; Nomi and her switchblade vehemently disagree. BookEnds with the closing scene, where Nomi thumbs a ride to Los Angeles with the exact same man and pick-up truck. She shrieks, "You stole my luggage!" and resumes slashing at him while he's driving.
* ''Film/TheTexasChainSawMassacre1974'': A hitchhiker travels with the group for a bit and start talking about his family who worked at the old slaughterhouse. He borrows Franklin's pocket-knife and cuts himself, then takes a Polaroid picture of the others and demands money for it. When they refuse to pay, he burns the photo and slashes Franklin's arm with a straight razor. The group forces him out of the van and drive on. It then gets worse when, later in the film, we find out the hitchhiker is Leatherface’s younger brother Nubbins, and he decides to exact some payback on Sally with aid from both Leatherface and the family’s patriarch Drayton.
* Downplayed in ''Film/ThelmaAndLouise'', in which an otherwise friendly hitchhiker ends up stealing all their money.
* There is a hitchhiking SerialKiller on the loose in the comedy ''Film/TheresSomethingAboutMary''. The cops find the body he was carrying and peg the main character as a guy who kills hitchhikers, starting a hilarious MistakenConfession.
* ''Film/HellsHighway'': A sexy homicidal hitchhiker, calling herself Lucinda, commits acts of gory mayhem against unsuspecting people who pick her up off the road to help her
* ''Film/TheHitcher'' (1986) is about a driver who is stalked and manipulated by a hitchhiking spree killer after foiling the man's direct attempt on his life. Screenwriter Eric Red said the story was inspired by Music/TheDoors' song "Riders on the Storm." Was remade in 2007.
* The 1953 film ''Film/TheHitchHiker'' is about a hitchhiking robber/murderer in the southwestern U.S. who, after a RunForTheBorder, gets picked up by two vacationing Americans. He forces them to transport him south through Baja California, intending to kill them when he reaches his planned destination.
* In ''The Hitchhiker'' (Creator/TheAsylum's {{Mockbuster}} of the 2007 remake of ''Film/TheHitcher''), the title character befriends four road-tripping party girls who pick him up, then imprisons them in a hotel room and tortures them.
* In the 1991 version of ''Film/AKissBeforeDying'', a character is seen hitchhiking. When he's next seen on-screen, he's using the [[DeadPersonImpersonation name and backstory]] of the driver who picked him up. Given that we've already seen this guy murder his pregnant girlfriend, it's obvious that he's done away with the driver too.
* ''Film/MacheteKills'': The shape-shifting assassin El Chameleon, in the form of Music/LadyGaga, wanders the desert and acts sexy to get a trucker to stop. As soon as she gets in, she shoots him, boots the body out, and drives off.
* ''Film/{{Showgirls}}'': The AntiHero protagonist Nomi Malone thumbs a ride to Las Vegas from a man in a pick-up truck. En route, the man suggests sex-for-mileage; Nomi and her switchblade vehemently disagree. BookEnds with the closing scene, where Nomi thumbs a ride to Los Angeles with the exact same man and pick-up truck. She shrieks, "You stole my luggage!" and resumes slashing at him while he's driving.
* ''Film/TheTexasChainSawMassacre1974'': A hitchhiker travels with the group for a bit and start talking about his family who worked at the old slaughterhouse. He borrows Franklin's pocket-knife and cuts himself, then takes a Polaroid picture of the others and demands money for it. When they refuse to pay, he burns the photo and slashes Franklin's arm with a straight razor. The group forces him out of the van and drive on. It then gets worse when, later in the film, we find out the hitchhiker is Leatherface’s younger brother Nubbins, and he decides to exact some payback on Sally with aid from both Leatherface and the family’s patriarch Drayton.
* Downplayed in ''Film/ThelmaAndLouise'', in which an otherwise friendly hitchhiker ends up stealing all their money.
* There is a hitchhiking SerialKiller on the loose in the comedy ''Film/TheresSomethingAboutMary''. The cops find the body he was carrying and peg the main character as a guy who kills hitchhikers, starting a hilarious MistakenConfession.
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->'''Jim Halsey''': What do you want?\\
'''John Ryder''': *laughs*\\
'''Jim''': What's so funny?\\
'''John''': That's what the other guy said.\\
'''Jim''': What other guy?\\
'''John''': That guy back there, the one we just passed. The guy who picked me up before you did.\\
'''Jim''': That was him in there?\\
'''John''': Sure it was. He couldn't have walked very far.\\
'''Jim''': Why's that?\\
'''John''': Because I cut off his legs... and his arms... and his head... and I'm going to do the same to you.
'''John Ryder''': *laughs*\\
'''Jim''': What's so funny?\\
'''John''': That's what the other guy said.\\
'''Jim''': What other guy?\\
'''John''': That guy back there, the one we just passed. The guy who picked me up before you did.\\
'''Jim''': That was him in there?\\
'''John''': Sure it was. He couldn't have walked very far.\\
'''Jim''': Why's that?\\
'''John''': Because I cut off his legs... and his arms... and his head... and I'm going to do the same to you.
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->'''Jim Halsey''': Halsey:''' What do you want?\\
'''JohnRyder''': *laughs*\\
'''Jim''':Ryder:''' ''[laughs]''\\
'''Jim:''' What's so funny?\\
'''John''': '''John:''' That's what the other guy said.\\
'''Jim''': '''Jim:''' What other guy?\\
'''John''': '''John:''' That guy back there, the one we just passed. The guy who picked me up before you did.\\
'''Jim''': '''Jim:''' That was him in there?\\
'''John''': '''John:''' Sure it was. He couldn't have walked very far.\\
'''Jim''': '''Jim:''' Why's that?\\
'''John''': '''John:''' Because I cut off his legs... and his arms... and his head... and I'm going to do the same to you.
'''John
'''Jim''':
'''Jim:''' What's so funny?\\
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* ''Series/MastersOfHorror'' featured an episode, "Pick Me Up", where Wheeler is a truck driver who kills hitchers that he picks up, and Walker is a hitchhiker who kills people that pick him up. [[spoiler:The third serial killer in this scenario is a pair of ambulance drivers.]]
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* In the ''Series/MastersOfHorror'' featured an episode, "Pick episode "[[Recap/MastersOfHorrorS1E11PickMeUp Pick Me Up", where Up]]", Wheeler is a truck driver who kills hitchers that he picks up, and Walker is a hitchhiker who kills people that pick him up. [[spoiler:The third serial killer in this scenario is a pair of ambulance drivers.]]
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* In ''Film/TheHitchhiker'' (Creator/TheAsylum's {{Mockbuster}} of the 2007 remake of ''Film/TheHitcher''), the title character befriends four road-tripping party girls who pick him up, then imprisons them in a hotel room and tortures them.
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* In ''Film/TheHitchhiker'' ''The Hitchhiker'' (Creator/TheAsylum's {{Mockbuster}} of the 2007 remake of ''Film/TheHitcher''), the title character befriends four road-tripping party girls who pick him up, then imprisons them in a hotel room and tortures them.
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** Played with in the short story ''Mute'', where a guy picks up a supposedly deaf-mute hitchhiker, who does nothing aside from stealing his St. Christopher medallion and evening leaves a note thanking him for the ride. However, the guy vented to the hitchhiker (who he believed to be asleep) about his wife cheating on him and embezzling from him as well, leaving him in debt, and soon after his wife and her lover are found beaten to death in their motel room.
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** Played with in the short story ''Mute'', "[[Literature/JustAfterSunset Mute]]", where a guy picks up a supposedly deaf-mute hitchhiker, who does nothing aside from stealing his St. Christopher medallion and evening leaves a note thanking him for the ride. However, the guy vented to the hitchhiker (who he believed to be asleep) about his wife cheating on him and embezzling from him as well, leaving him in debt, and soon after his wife and her lover are found beaten to death in their motel room.
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* In ''Serial'', by Blake Crouch and Jack Kilborn, both the straight and inverted versions of this trope apply, as one SerialKiller picks up another. Each happens to fit the other's preferred victim type.....
