The tense and taut road thriller follows a traveling businessman driving through the Californian desert to meet a client.

However, he soon finds himself being relentlessly pursued by a murderous truck driver.

He also has to be considered among the most underappreciated villains crime cinema has seen in the 21st century.

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Mission: Impossible III

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Rob Roy (1995)

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Walter Finch, standing on a boat and looking serious in Insomnia

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Scorpio (Andy Robinson) takes aim with his gun in ‘Dirty Harry’

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Vincent Price as Professor Henry Jarrod, looking at his withered hands in House of Wax

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Joseph Cotten as Uncle Charlie on a payphone in Shadow of a Doubt

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Rose the Hat looking at the camera in Doctor Sleep (2019)

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