Friday, April 25, 2025

100% Weird Fridays: Don't Stop for Strangers

Back on March 28th, 2025, Raf and Brayton did a film noir double feature with hitchhikers getting into deadly danger. Both films from the Twitch stream have now been separated into halves, edited for presentation's sake, and uploaded onto YouTube for your viewing!

The first part of our Don't Stop for Strangers double feature, DETOUR, tells the tale of an unemployed piano player who hitches a ride and finds a whole heap of trouble barely held together by a wonky alibi. If that wasn't bad enough, our anti-protagonist is joined by a viperous companion, played by the fittingly named Ann Savage, who would famously murder and disappear noir expert Eddie Muller many years later! Mind the damn typos:

Raf and Brayton make light of real world crime with the second feature for Don't Stop for Strangers, the harrowing 1953 thriller THE HITCH-HIKER, proceeded with a discussion on the classic TWILIGHT ZONE episode which shares the same name: