Roadgames (1981)
On the world's loneliest highway it's not a game - it's murder!
Genre : Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Runtime : 1H 41M
Director : Richard Franklin
Writer : Everett De Roche
Synopsis
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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