Roadgames

Roadgames

6.5IMDb Score
Released:1981-02-27
Duration:101 min
Country:Australia
Director:Richard Franklin
Actors:Stacy Keach, Jamie Lee Curtis, Marion Edward, Grant Page, Thaddeus Smith
Production:Essaness Pictures, GUO, Quest Productions

Overview:

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.

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