La proie de l'autostop

Original title: Autostop rosso sangue

1977
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1h 44m

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A bickering couple driving cross-country through California pick up a psychotic hitchhiker who threatens to kill them unless they take him to Mexico.A bickering couple driving cross-country through California pick up a psychotic hitchhiker who threatens to kill them unless they take him to Mexico.A bickering couple driving cross-country through California pick up a psychotic hitchhiker who threatens to kill them unless they take him to Mexico.

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Eve Mancini
(as Corinne Clery)

David Hess

Adam Konitz

Joshua Sinclair

Oaks
(as John Loffredo)

Carlo Puri

Hawk

Ignazio Spalla

Mexican Way Station Clerk
(as Pedro Sanches)

Leonardo Scavino

Mendoza
(as Leon Lenor)

Mónica Zanchi

Girl at Camp Site
(as Monica Zanchi)

Benito Pacifico

Highway Patrolman #1

Angelo Ragusa

Highway Patrolman #2

Luigi Birri

Man at Camp Site

Fausto Di Bella

Motorcycle Punk #1

Hélène Chauvin

Motociclista
(uncredited)

John P. Dulaney

Man at Camp Site
(uncredited)

Ann Ferguson

Lucy Stetson
(uncredited)

Per Holgher

Motorcycle Punk #2
(uncredited)

Robert Sommer

Harry Stetson
(uncredited)

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Trivia
Franco Nero had a broken hand throughout the film because he actually broke his hand while punching a misbehaving horse on the set of Keoma (1976). Because of the injury the script was rewritten to have Walter drunkenly fall and break his hand early in the film. It was also rewritten so that Eve would be driving the car throughout the film. Originally it was supposed to be Walter driving.

Goofs
Though set in California, road signs are not in American design style.

Quotes
Adam Konitz: [sending them over a cliff in a flaming truck] Bye Faggots!

Alternate versions
The French Canadian video release on the MPA label contains an additional gore shot when David Hess' character shoots a police officer in the head. This French version was also re-edited for an attempt at a happy ending. Basically, the scene in which Franco Nero and Corrine Clery meet the bikers at the roadstop diner is towards the beginning of the film and their subsequent wipe out on the oil slick has been completely omitted. The film ends with Nero and Clery laughing and driving away with all the money after killing Hess.

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8/10

Landmark in Nihilism

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?