The Hitcher

I always think of the 1980s movie The Hitcher as a homage to HWY/Riders On The Storm (hence the younger main character is "Jim", and the older main character - the hitchhiker (actually the original name for HWY) - Rutger Hauer - is called John "Ryder"). Essentially, a hitchhiker is picked up in a "storm" and informs the driver that he has killed an entire family (calling to mind if you give this man a ride/sweet family will die and Morrison's phone call about killing someone in the desert in HWY) that had previously picked him up.

The chap who wrote the "original" story claimed it was from his own experience as a taxi driver (after he picked up someone on the road)... 

Also of note: soundtrack for movie by Mark Isham... Isham also worked with (both in the 1980s also) David Sylvian and in a Doors/Morrison related coincidence... Marianne Faithfull... Faithfull has never revealed her side of the story of Morrison's death, her silence speaking volumes...

These comments about the movie were originally posted a while back on Alice Cooper's music/radio show website, when he had L.A. Woman as album of the month (or something to that effect)...