Roadgames

"Thank you, @ryan-b for letting me know about this great thriller filmed in Australia. Starring Stacy Keach and Jamie Lee Curtis, this fantastic suspenseful drama really is like Hitchcock's Rear Window on Wheels! 🚛 Stacy Keach is a long distance driver who spots a strange man and his vehicle far too many times for it too be a convenience. Then strange rumours reveal about killings on the route he drives. I was amazed how much I liked this plot, and how easy it was to care about the characters. I also especially liked the scene in which Jamie Lee's character notices a book in Stacy's Rig called Hitchcock! Hitchcock still manages a cameo in book form! What a cool nod of respect to the master of suspense. The acting is pretty low key, but it works well as the anxiety builds in the last act. Directed by Richard Franklin."

"Decent dark comedy thriller from Australia."

"This movie starts as a character portrait of a quirky truck driver in Australia (Stacy Keach) who has spent way too much time alone. It then turns into a riff on Rear Window via a windshield, as his character becomes convinced that a man in a mysterious green van is the serial killer who has been haunting the country. Keach carries the day here, as he creates a character that is endearing but is also off-kilter enough that you never fully trust him. Has he solved this mystery that the police cannot or is he so desperate to escape his mundane life that he fantasized all of this “evidence” just so he can play the hero? Jamie Lee Curtis is in support, as a hitchhiker he picks up. This is a well constructed thriller and its nods to Hitchcock are fun. It’s widely available on almost all of the free streaming platforms (usually as Road Games with the space). 3.75 out of 5 Stars"

"Shocktober 2024: Definitely gonna be the least genre appropriate of everything I watch for shocktober this year. It's a defect of not pre-planning anything and just watching whatever looks interesting to me. Sometimes I get something completely off theme. I thought it would be more like The Hitcher but it's kinda as far from it as it could be with the same theme. While The Hitcher is very tight and suspenseful this is meandering and kind of silly. It's a Hitchcock homage and not a particularly modern take on one like a De Palma or something. It has the same energy of the Hitchcock era. Which is interesting since Psycho II, the direct Hitchcock sequel by this director felt so modernized. Overall, not bad. It's a pretty fun time even if it's not what I was expecting."