Roadgames (1981)
AKA Road Games. Stacy Keach stars as Quid, a trucker in a pretty barren Australian landscape, delivering some meat to Perth or somewhere like that. He's joined by his dog, and eventually the cast expands with a hitchhiker played by Jamie Lee Curtis and a maniac in a van played by Grant Page. The plot is basically Rear Window on the open road, and director Richard Franklin (Patrick, Psycho II, Cloak & Dagger) is an open Hitchcock fan. In fact, he got the job to direct Psycho II based on this film. The movie pulls off the concept extremely well and manages to be engaging throughout; there are even some moments of genuine suspense. Franklin uses the road, the truck, the dog, and everything available to him to full effect, and it all works very well.
One thing: this film was made after Halloween, The Fog, Prom Night, and Terror Train, and just before Halloween II, but it's a straightforward thriller and not one of the scream queen's slasher films (and technically The Fog isn't either).
Tagline: The truck driver plays games. The hitchhiker plays games. And the killer is playing the deadliest game of all!
Hightlights: The triple-ending. Jamie Lee Curtis and Stacy Keach do a great job, even though Jamie Lee is really only in one small part of the film. The fact that the finale takes place at the destination rather than still out on the open road.
One thing: this film was made after Halloween, The Fog, Prom Night, and Terror Train, and just before Halloween II, but it's a straightforward thriller and not one of the scream queen's slasher films (and technically The Fog isn't either).
Tagline: The truck driver plays games. The hitchhiker plays games. And the killer is playing the deadliest game of all!
Hightlights: The triple-ending. Jamie Lee Curtis and Stacy Keach do a great job, even though Jamie Lee is really only in one small part of the film. The fact that the finale takes place at the destination rather than still out on the open road.
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