It looks like David Arquette didn’t listen to his parents when they told him not to pick up hitchhikers. Deadline revealed the first image from his upcoming road horror film The Night Driver, and unlike the friendly twist at the end of The Twilight Zone’s “The Hitch-Hiker,” this vagrant isn’t a welcome sight.
Directed by Jeremy Weiss in his feature debut, The Night Driver comes from a script by John Cork, and also stars Josh Lucas and Alyssa Milano. The film’s synopsis is as follows:
One night in the middle of the country, traveling salesman Hurdis Matheson drives down a dark stretch of highway when he accidentally hits a long-haired stranger. The stranger survives, but is badly wounded. Hurdis agrees to drive him to the hospital. As they drive, he realizes something is wrong with his passenger. Before he knows it, The Stranger becomes violent and attacks him.
A couple of days later in California, Hurdis’ wife, Cheryl Jones, begs her old friend Detective Hank Granger to help find her husband. She hasn’t heard from him in two days, and suspects something happened to him. Granger agrees to help but becomes entangled in a bigger case with the FBI regarding Hurdis Jones. They suspect he is a serial killer on a rampage, leaving a trail of homicide scenes across the country. Meanwhile, Hurdis is running, driving, and speeding to get home. But everywhere he turns, The Stranger stalks him. He can’t seem to lose him.
The film will have its world premiere at this year’s Screamfest, which runs from October 6-15 at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles. Other films screening at the festival include the world premieres of The Caged, Wounds, Grow, Insecta, and Postmortem.
No release date has been set for The Night Driver. Stay tuned to FANGORIA for more updates.
