Hit and Run (2009)

Such a frustrating disappointment

Sorry, this movie sucks

hyped garbage

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Freshman director Enda McCallion's gripping little thriller "Hit and Run" is a nimble, well-made melodrama about a college student on spring break who may have accidentally killed a man that she has never seen. The premise of "Hit and Run" is a nightmare that everybody who imbibes eventually will experience. After a night of binge drinking, you wake up the next morning with dread in your heart as you struggle to remember whether you hit and killed a pedestrian with your vehicle. Good camera placement, effective thesping, suspenseful atmosphere, and above average helming make this low-budget nail-biter a rewarding experience. Although the idea is straight out of "I Know What You Did Last Summer," "Hit and Run" is a worthwhile chiller.Mary Murdock (Laura Breckinridge) is on her way home after she leaves a bar where her friends and she were trying to drink the place out of liquor. Mary's worthless boyfriend Rick (Christopher Shand) tries to dissuade her from leaving to no avail. While they are saying goodbyes to each other, Mary steps into the road and a speeding vehicle narrowly avoids hitting her. On her way home, Mary swerves past something in the middle of the road and winds up off the asphalt. She recovers her senses and the vehicle and then cruises home. Conveniently, Mary's parents are away for the weekend leaving her to hold down the house. Later, Mary is lying down in bed when she hears something go bump. Imagine Mary's apprehension when she discovers the body of a man (Kevin Corrigan) stuck on the front bumper of her jeep. When she tries to help the poor fellow, he turns on her, and she seizes a golf club and pummels him unconscious. Afterward, she drives him to a remote place in the woods where she digs a grave while rain pours down on her. She wraps the victim in a blanket from her vehicle and places him in the shallow grave. Later, Rick shows up at her house and Mary confides in him that she has killed a man. Since Rick's arrival, Mary has learned that the man she ran down was a popular school teacher. Mary freaks out when she realizes that she wrapped the dead man in a blanket that the authorities will be able to trace back to her jeep. She calls Rick on her cell phone and they agree to rendezvous where Mary buried the corpse. Mary is in for a rude awakening when she learns that the body wrapped in the blanket at the burial site is not the school teacher!McCallion opens "Hit and Run" with a shot straight out of "So I Married an Axe Murderer" as a bartender fills shot glasses on a waitress's platter. The Fluid camera work, straightforward scripting, and the use of reliable stalker movie scenes make "Hit and Run" a rather compelling sit and watch experience. Although it is somewhat derivative, "Hit and Run" qualifies as an impressive debut film for McCallion. This exciting, 84-minute never wears out its welcome but it may rattle squeamish viewers with its blood and gore element.

Man I was watching this and I was thinking is that Kevin Corrigan from grounded for life?? Holy cow. He has the most gnarly teeth ever. That dental work was out of control dude. All yellow and jaggedly. That hit/run car crash really left him disfigured bad. He looks like one of the zombie guys who escaped from night of the living deads. Weird performance too. He keeps whispering incoherently and then raising his voice, with a savage kind of ferocity, totally into his role. I'd say, possessed like. I never seen Corrigan playing this kind of "villain" so that was bizarre. A 'departure' for him, no pun intended. Although his role is not that huge and you can barely tell it's him, this could be worth a look see esp if you're a Corrigan fan and want to see him in something different.

I saw this on vod. A crazy guy gets hit by a drunk gal, Mary on a dark road. The next day she finds this "creature-man" on the bumper on her jeep. Somehow he is still alive. She finishes off the job and then next comes the shallow grave in the forest behind her house. She is plagued by guilt and gets her dumb-butt bf involved. He advises her real badly not to tell the cops about what she's done. Bad move. You can tell he's a jerk and doesn't care about her at all except probably for sex, but he ends up dead so that's okay in my book. The creature guy is still alive. He's not really a creature, just a really messed up looking guy covered in blood and in some bipolar dementia. I was surprised by some of this movie. The chase, hide and seek and fight scenes are actually suspenseful and exciting when you get to them. Only fast forward past the periodic gore, if you have a weak stomach for gore. They face off and Mary succeeds stopping this stalker but not all turns out the way she thought it would. The characters are not that developed but I guess who cares??! Don't get me wrong i enjoyed it, but the middle part could have accelerated faster to the action. A watchable B movie with a good actress.

*spoilers* When Mary buried him it looked like Emser was dead. She did whack him like 5 times with the golf club in the head and he was already close to dying on the front of the car anyways. But she didn't take his pulse or anything like that after. So I was not totally sure if he was really dead, or just like in a coma or passed out. When he comes back from the woods he looks like more than just a guy who was buried alive. He looks like a zombie or the living dead. I'm thinking he was pumped up on adrenaline or he was superhuman because he was like nearly indestructible. I'm not sure if he's really dead at the end or not. It was way better than I expected and actually had a good horror action sequence packed in there, but I wish it was more clear if he was actually dead or just totally bashed up.