Road Games

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.