Roadgames 1981

The truck driver plays games. The hitchhiker plays games. And the killer is playing the deadliest game of all!

Roadgames

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6.519 / 10   155 vote(s)
PG
Horror Mystery Thriller

A truck driver plays a cat-and-mouse game with a mysterious serial killer in a van who lures young female hitchhiker victims on a desolate Australian highway.

Top Billed Cast

Stacy Keach

Patrick 'Pat' Quid

Jamie Lee Curtis

Pamela 'Hitch' Rushworth

Marion Edward

Madeleine 'Frita' Day

Grant Page

Smith or Jones

Thaddeus Smith

Policeman 'Abbott'

Steve Millichamp

Policeman 'Costello'

Release Date 1981-02-27
Runtime 1h 41m
Directors Richard Franklin, Vincent Monton, Tom Burstall, Robert Kewley, James Parker, Harry Zettel
Producers Richard Franklin, Bernard Schwartz, Barbi Taylor
Writers Everett De Roche, Everett De Roche, Richard Franklin

Richard Franklin

Producer

Richard Franklin

Director

Jon Dowding

Production Design

Bernard Schwartz

Executive Producer

Edward McQueen-Mason

Editor

Vincent Monton

Director of Photography

Brian May

Original Music Composer

Everett De Roche

Screenplay

Jon Dowding

Art Direction

Jill Eden

Set Decoration

Lois Hohenfels

Makeup Artist

Aphrodite Kondos

Costume Design

Barbi Taylor

Co-Producer

Ray Phillips

Sound

Roger Cowland

Visual Effects

Louise Johnson

Sound Editor

Andrew London

Supervising Sound Editor

Barbara Gibbs

Production Manager

Paul Clark

Sound

Grant Page

Stunt Coordinator

Greg Ricketson

Production Manager

Lon Bender

Sound Editor

Everett De Roche

Original Story

Richard Franklin

Original Story

Tom Burstall

Assistant Director

Robert Kewley

Assistant Director

James Parker

Assistant Director

Nick Hepworth

Props

Harry Zettel

Assistant Art Director

Robert W. Glass Jr.

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Robert Thirlwell

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

John Wilkinson

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Karel Akkerman

Grip

Daryl Binning

Electrician

David Brostoff

Assistant Camera

Phil Cross

Assistant Camera

Tony Holtham

Electrician

Louis Irving

Camera Operator

Louis Irving

Second Unit Cinematographer

Eric Lomas

Second Unit Cinematographer

Graeme Mardell

Grip

Jim Townley

Still Photographer

Greg Wallace

Grip

Colin Williams

Electrician

Suzy Wood

Still Photographer

Jamie Leckie

Assistant Grip

Helen Liston

Location Manager

Brian May

Conductor

Ross Cockle

Score Engineer

Anne McLeod

Script Supervisor

Billy Baxter

Production Assistant

Heath Harris

Technical Advisor

Warwick Ross

Production Assistant

Helen Watts

Production Secretary

Uneven suspense-thriller does feature a fine performance from Stacy Keach but otherwise pretty disappointing as I normally enjoy these sorts of thrillers. Also has characters making bizarre, though luckily ultimately correct choices... 2.75/5

— JPV852