Pat Quid (Stacy Keach) is an American truck driver in Western Australia who with his trusty Dingo Bosworth is transporting a trailer-load of pork halves to Perth. As he observes his fellow- travelers on the highway, Pat becomes convinced that a shifty character in a green van is the Jack The Ripper-style killer of young women he hears about on the radio. This causes him to become protective of the smart young hitchhiker he picks up, a runaway named Pamela (Jamie Lee Curtis). But the more Pat tries to determine if the Green Van driver is the killer, the more circumstantial evidence he lays before the cops that he's the guilty party. Roadgames is definitely one of the best thrillers born of the slasher genre instigated by 1978's Halloween. A largely Australian production, it's a smart amalgam of Rear Window, Duel, and a bit of Mad Max thrown in for good measure. Add to that an excellent Stacy Keach performance, a short but effective appearance by Jamie Lee Curtis, and you have a freewheeling, suspenseful road picture that's much too good for its own genre.
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