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Riding the Bullet (2004)

Riding the Bullet poster
Directed by
Mick Garris
Genre
horror film
Country
Germany, United States
Runtime
1h 36m
Rated
R
Rating
5.1 of 10 from 222 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young man hitchhikes to visit his mother in the hospital. Along the way he faces frightening encounters and a supernatural hitchhiker who offers him a terrible choice.

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What happens

Riding the Bullet is a 2004 horror film written, co-produced and directed by Mick Garris. It is an adaptation of Stephen King's 2000 novella of the same name. The film, which received a limited theatrical release, was not successful in theaters; it earned a domestic gross of $134,711. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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