Road Games
Road Games is a 1981 film from Australia, directed by Richard Franklin, running 101 minutes. reelscum files it under Ozploitation and carsploitation.
- Year
- 1981 · 1980s films
- Country
- Australia
- Runtime
- 101 min
- Director
- Richard Franklin
- Updated
- 10 Aug 2026
- Obscurity
- cult (35/100)
- Also known as
- Road Games · Déviation Mortelle
Defined in the glossary: Ozploitation, Carsploitation
Rear Window in a truck, with Stacy Keach and Jamie Lee Curtis.
Rear Window in a truck. A philosophical long-haul driver crossing the Nullarbor becomes convinced a fellow motorist is a serial killer, and the film is a tense, witty cat-and-mouse played out across the vast emptiness of the Australian outback. Stacy Keach talks to his dingo and the audience; Jamie Lee Curtis is the hitchhiker who may not survive.
Richard Franklin's Hitchcock influence is on full display, and the isolation of the highway does the work a haunted house would in another film. It is clever, funny and suspenseful.
One of the smartest films the Ozploitation era produced.
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Written about
- Ozploitation: the Australian genre boom, 1971 to 1986
An adults-only certificate, a tax loophole, and a Melbourne doctor who knew what happens to bodies at speed. Australia's fifteen years of cheap, mean, brilliant genre film.
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