Roadgames (1981)

Directed by

Richard Franklin

Genre

slasher film, thriller film

Country

Australia

Runtime

1h 41m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 214 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A truck driver traveling across Australia becomes suspicious that a driver he keeps encountering on the road is a serial killer who dumps dismembered bodies along the highway. With the help of a female hitchhiker he picks up, he tries to track down the killer and prove his theory without becoming the next victim.

suspensefullonelytensegrittyunsettlingslow-burndesolateparanoid

What happens

Roadgames (stylised as Road Games) is a 1981 Australian thriller film directed by Richard Franklin and starring Stacy Keach and Jamie Lee Curtis. The film follows a truck driver travelling across Australia who, with the help of a hitchhiker, seeks to track down a serial killer who is butchering women and dumping their dismembered bodies along desolate highways. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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