HITCHER, (The) Soundtrack Vinyl RSD Release (2022)

The Hitcher is one of those 1986 horror films that gets under your skin and stays there, and a lot of that is Mark Isham's score. Synth-drenched, desolate, and deeply unsettling, it's the kind of ambient horror soundtrack that sounds like driving through the Mojave at 3am with someone you probably shouldn't have picked up.

Isham's work here sits comfortably alongside Tangerine Dream's Thief and John Carpenter's self-composed nightmares, all sparse electronic tension and wide-open dread. This 2022 Record Store Day release presses it onto turquoise vinyl, which is genuinely fitting for something this cold and eerie. Limited to 2000 copies worldwide and numbered, this is for the collector who takes their dark aesthetic as seriously as their horror.

Mark Isham, The Hitcher Original Movie Score. Limited Edition numbered picture disc (#1737 of 2000). Turquoise vinyl LP. RSD Release 2022. USA origin.

Fans of: John Carpenter, Tangerine Dream, Goblin, Giorgio Moroder's dark side.