Roadgames (1981)
Directed by Richard Franklin
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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I’d like to end by saying that this is a bit of an underrated film that holds up solid to the test of time with its obvious similarities to Alfred Hitchcock’s film Rear Window (1954) that played as some inspiration.
Eventually, Franklin had the idea that the killer wouldn’t be the truck driver, but the driver would be the witness to a series of murders committed by someone out there, in the vein of Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window .
Road Games is inspired largely by the works of Alfred Hitchcock, in particular, the brilliant Rear Window .
The parallels between this film and Hitchcock’s Rear Window are undeniable and director Richard Franklin even stated that he wanted to make Rear Window on the road.
If you’ve seen 1954’s REAR WINDOW, there can be no doubt which Hitchcock movie Franklin and De Roche have taken as inspiration.REAR WINDOW is also a film about a hero stuck in an enclosed space, who catches wind of a crime and is deemed crazy by the authorities, leaving him to take matters into his own hands.
What cements Roadgames‘ Hitchcockian overtones, though, is the way Franklin borrows the basic premise of Rear Window (1954), replacing its apartment block window setting with the windscreen of a truck.
Franklin is best known for co-producing the film The Blue Lagoon (1980) as well as directing the films Patrick (1978), Psycho II (1983), Cloak & Dagger (1984), and Link (1986).
De Roche loved the content of the script and expressed his desire to write a film with a similar plot but set on a moving vehicle.[2] He developed the idea with Franklin in Fiji, where the latter was co-producing The Blue Lagoon (1980).
He discusses directing the movie Patrick (1978) and producing The Blue Lagoon (1980).
De Roche loved what he read and wanted to make a similar movie but within a moving vehicle, so the dup worked on the first draft while Franklin was producing The Blue Lagoon .
Franklin followed this by producing The Blue Lagoon , another massive international success.