SIMALARITIES

· Both texts have a group of teenagers out on a road trip as part of the narrative.
· Same method of killing (Chainsaw), which is an icon of the TCM series.
· Both texts are set in an isolated location.
· In both texts narratives, friends begin to go missing while the others set out to look for them.
· Hitchhiker appears in both films, the characters realise that he is a psycho.
· Audience gain sadistic pleasure.
· Both texts have a ‘final girl’.





DIFFERENCES



· Hitchhiker in 1974 was a male who cut himself, whereas the hitchhiker in 2003 was a woman who shot herself.