'Blood-red hitchhiking', also known as Death Drive and The Naked Prey) is a 1977 Italian road thriller film co-written and directed by Pasquale Festa Campanile.

The film stars Franco Nero and Corinne Cléry as a couple in a troubled marriage, and David Hess as a fugitive who takes them hostage.

Walter Mancini (Nero), an alcoholic reporter, and his wife Eve (Cléry) are on a road trip with a trailer heading back to Los Angeles.

Konitz soon turns out to be a sadistic escapee from an institution for the criminally insane, and he is running from the law after robbing two million dollars with his partners.

Nero was in Germany shooting 21 Hours at Munich, in which Hess also had a small role, when Campanile called him and suggested starring in Autostop rosso sangue.

[2] Just a few days before the shooting of the film began, Nero broke his arm at the set of the Spaghetti Western Keoma while giving a misbehaving horse a punch.

[1] The review concluded that it was "notable only for its extensive borrowings: Duel for the murderous truck that terrorises car and trailer on the mountain road; The Wild One and company for the motorcycle louts deliberately causing havoc on the highways; and numerous 'road' movies for its general format."