Hitch Hike to Hell
- IMDb link: 0140174
- IMDb rating: 4.9 (538 votes)
- Genres: Horror, Crime, Mystery
- Director: Irvin Berwick
- Cast: Russell Johnson, John Harmon, Robert Gribbin, Randy Echols and others
- Release date: 1 Jan 1977
- Release year: 1977
- Runtime: 87 minutes
- Country: United States
- Keywords: body in a dumpster, rape, female hitchhiker, cut off jeans, rape and murder, outdoor sex, misogynist, rape victim, woman in jeopardy, clothes torn off
Plot:
Howard Martin is a mild-mannered young man who lives with his widowed mother and has a job driving a red van for a commercial dry cleaning service. He is also a homicidal psychopath and a Mama's boy whose sister, Judy, ran away from home and broke his mother's heart. While he delivers his customers' dry cleaning to them, he picks up young female runaways who are hitchhiking in the red van, then asks them if they ran away from their mothers. If they say "Yes", he then rapes them and kills them for their "transgressions." As the bodies start to pile up, the police finally start to investigate.