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Movies Like The Hitcher II: I've Been Waiting

If you liked The Hitcher II: I've Been Waiting (2003), a action and horror movie directed by Louis Morneau, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1The Hitcher

    The Hitcher (1986)

    ★ 7/10Also horror and action

    On a stormy night, young Jim, who transports a luxury car from Chicago to California to deliver it to its owner, feeling tired and sleepy, picks up a mysterious hitchhiker, who has appeared out of nowhere, thinking…

  2. 2The Hitcher

    The Hitcher (2007)

    ★ 5.9/10Also horror and thriller

    While driving through the New Mexico Desert during a rainy night, college students Jim Halsey and his girlfriend Grace Andrews give a ride to a hitchhiker. While in their car, the stranger proves to be a psychopath…

  3. 3Grindhouse

    Grindhouse (2007)

    ★ 7/10Also thriller and action

    Grindhouse combines Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror, a horror comedy about a group of survivors who battle zombie-like creatures, and Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof, an action thriller about a murderous stuntman who…

  4. 4Gunslingers

    Gunslingers (2025)

    ★ 6.1/10Also action and thriller

    When the most wanted man in America surfaces in a small Kentucky town, his violent history -- and a blood-thirsty mob seeking vengeance and a king’s ransom -- soon follow. As brothers face off against one another and…

  5. 5Night of the Hunted

    Night of the Hunted (2023)

    ★ 6.1/10Also horror and thriller

    When an unsuspecting woman stops at a remote gas station in the dead of night, she's made the plaything of a sociopath sniper with a secret vendetta. To survive, she must not only dodge his bullets and fight for her…

  6. 6No One Lives

    No One Lives (2013)

    ★ 6/10Also horror and thriller

    A gang of ruthless highway killers kidnap a wealthy couple traveling cross country only to shockingly discover that things are not what they seem.

  7. 7The Town that Dreaded Sundown

    The Town that Dreaded Sundown (2014)

    ★ 5.9/10Also thriller and horror

    A masked maniac terrorizes the same small community where a murderer known as the Phantom Killer struck decades earlier.

  8. 8The Prowler

    The Prowler (1981)

    ★ 5.8/10Also horror and thriller

    Thirty years after a murder on the night of Avalon Bay's graduation dance, the sleepy town's teens meet grisly ends at the hands of a prowler once thought to be a jilted soldier home from war.

  9. 9Frenzy

    Frenzy (1972)

    ★ 7.1/10Also thriller and horror

    London is terrorized by a vicious sex killer known as The Necktie Murderer. Following the brutal slaying of his ex-wife, down-on-his-luck Richard Blaney is suspected by the police of being the killer. He goes on the…

  10. 10The Hit List

    The Hit List (2011)

    ★ 6/10Also action and thriller

    A disgruntled man creates a hit list with a stranger during a drunken night out and must then race to try to save those he marked for extermination as the bodies begin to pile up and all fingers point to him.

  11. 11The Forever Purge

    The Forever Purge (2021)

    ★ 6.8/10Also action and horror

    All the rules are broken as a sect of lawless marauders decides that the annual Purge does not stop at daybreak and instead should never end as they chase a group of immigrants who they want to punish because of their…

  12. 12Hunted

    Hunted (2021)

    ★ 6.2/10Also action and horror

    A woman flees two serial killers who are hot on her heels in a forest.

  13. 13Deranged

    Deranged (1974)

    ★ 5.8/10Also horror and thriller

    A man living in rural Wisconsin takes care of his bed-ridden mother, who is very domineering and teaches him that all women are evil. After she dies, he misses her, and a year later digs her up and takes her home. He…

  14. 14Border Hunters

    Border Hunters (2025)

    ★ 6.1/10Also action and thriller

    After his police officer brother is killed by a drug dealer who flees to the protection of his cartel-connected uncle in Mexico, an American man with a diverse law enforcement/military background goes south of the…

  15. 15Unhinged

    Unhinged (2020)

    ★ 6.4/10Also action and thriller

    Rachel is a divorced single mother whose bad day gets even worse. She's running late to drop her son off at school when she honks her horn impatiently at a fellow driver during rush-hour traffic. After an exchange of…

  16. 16Bloodline

    Bloodline (2019)

    ★ 5.9/10Also horror and thriller

    Evan values family above all else, and anyone who gets between him, his wife, and newborn son learns that the hard way. But when it comes to violent tendencies, it seems the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

  17. 17King of Killers

    King of Killers (2023)

    ★ 6.3/10Also action and thriller

    Garan is a part of a group of international hitmen who are contracted to take out the most dangerous killer in the world, only to find out that they're the ones being hunted.

  18. 18Section 8

    Section 8 (2022)

    ★ 6.1/10Also action and thriller

    After avenging the murder of his family, a former soldier is sprung from prison and recruited by a shadowy government agency.

  19. 19Exit Protocol

    Exit Protocol (2025)

    ★ 6.8/10Also action and thriller

    An assassin whose specialty is killing other assassins trying to get out of the business decides to try to get out himself and must then team up with his former mark to escape the hired killers now gunning for them both.

  20. 20Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers

    Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)

    ★ 6.2/10Also horror and thriller

    Ten years after his original massacre, the invalid Michael Myers awakens on Halloween Eve and returns to Haddonfield to kill his seven-year-old niece.

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