Director Richard Franklin proudly wears his genre influences on his sleeve in this lively road-slasher movie, which shifts gears between Hitchcock's
Rear Window and Spielberg's
Duel.
Stacey Keach stars as a truck driver with a penchant for having meaningful conversations with his dog while trucking along Australia's lonely highways. When an opportunity arises to give a young American woman a lift, he jumps at the chance.
Unfortunately the young woman is scream queen Jamie Lee Curtis, whose films are marked by a high body count.
