IFWT #9 - Roadgames (1981)

A first time watch for both of your heroes here at IFWT. We had much fun discovering and discussing Richard Franklin's Ozploitation Hitchcockian road thriller Roadgames. In Roadgames we follow Patrick Quid (Stacy Keach) as he both follows and is being followed by a mysterious man in a green van whom he comes to suspect as being responsible for a spate of murders. Quid is joined by Pamela 'Hitch' (on the nose Hitchcock nod), played by Jamie Lee Curtis, a hitchhiker he picks up, who does nothing to quell his suspicions. A film that blends thriller, mystery and humour, Roadgames is definitely not a film to miss. 

We start the show by contextualising Roadgames and the Australian genre film culture of the 70s and 80s, which would come to be known at Ozploitation.