Road Games

Road Games I know I said I was going to be doing horror but today I watched Road Games for the first time and thought Id write about this little less known gem..its more of a thriller type but people sometimes lump it in with horror.

Road Games was made in 1981 and is an Australian film I usually wont watch Australian films because I have watched so many that have been horrible!
but this ..was different I have a fondness for cat and mouse truck driving films like Duel and Joy ride and I find that they are hard to come by that's how I came across this movie.


The movie stars Stacey Keach and Jamie Lee Curtis ( I love Jamie Lee )
Stacey Keach plays a  loveable truck driver named Patrick Quid who hasn't slept in quite some time
and Jamie lee is a runaway hitchhiker who is looking for some adventure.
At the start of the movie he pulls over at a motel to try to get some rest and maybe some tail but as luck would have it another guy gets the last room and the tail..
the next scene shows a naked girl getting strangled with piano wire or guitar string or something..the next morning Patrick Quid wakes up and lets his pet dingo out of the car to go to the bathroom his dingo runs over to some trash bags and starts digging in them and a man is watching from the top room..the garbage collectors come and take away the trash before the dog can find the body..

Through out his route he runs into several different people and he runs into the mysterious guy driving the van who stole his room
he hears on the radio and from another hitchhiker that theres been some missing girls and some body parts found and they are looking for a killer so he soon suspects this guy.

He spots Jamie lee hitchhiking a few times but doesn't pick her up and then finally does and they are sort of sweet on each other and she believes him when he tells her about the guy in the van..
Soon the are playing detective they stop at a roadside gas station and Quid goes into the bathroom and thinks he has the guy cornered while Jamie lee investigates the van but while he is doing that she runs into the guy who is still in his van and gets taken away...
so that leads to a merry and heart thumping chase ....and you have to wonder if she is dead or not and will he save the girl

Sorry if I gave away the whole movie but its worth a watch you can find it on youtube.