It’s truly unfortunate that every time I see Jamie Lee Curtis, I usually think to myself “Am I irregular?”. Then I feel bad ‘cause I know that there’s more to her than a love of active cultures. She was once one of my favorite scream queens in the Halloween franchise, a hooker with a sense of humor in Trading Places, a mortuary make-up artist in the Kleenex heavy My Girl, and even a fish, I mean woman called Wanda.
In Road Games she plays a Pamela, a young hitchhiker looking for adventure in Australia. She gets picked up by Patrick Quid, a lonely but ultimately charming truck driver on assignment moving meat across state lines.
Since Pat spends most of his days alone with the open road, his thoughts, and a dingo named Boswell, he welcomes Pamela’s company. Once comfortable, he shares his suspicions about a green van’s relation to a string of recent murders in the area. They turn the theory into a road game of cat and mouse and form a Scooby Doo like detective team. They’ve got the cute dog, a creepy suspect, and mounting circumstantial evidence; they just swapped out the Mystery Machine for a big-rig full of bacon. Perhaps overly confident in their hunch they decide to catch the killer themselves; But at what cost?! This film was inspired by Hitchcock’s voyeur thriller Rear Window and has an interesting twist (though executed with a really shitty prop).
