person or book cover
Screen cap from promotional trailer
form y separately published work icon Roadgames single work   film/TV   horror   thriller  
Note: Both De Roche and director Richard Franklin are credited with 'story', but only DeRoche is credited with 'screenplay'.
Issue Details: First known date: 1981... 1981 Roadgames
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'Pat Quid, an eccentric truck driver on a line-haul from Melbourne to Perth, finds out that one of his fellow travellers is a mass murderer'.

Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 29/8/2012)

Notes

  • The trailer for this film is available to view on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThIqOjfWT1E (Sighted: 29/8/2012)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

Dead Heart : Australia’s Horror Cinema Geoff Stanton , 2018 single work column
— Appears in: FilmInk , 31 October 2018;
Deranged Down Under Erik Piepenburg , 2017 single work column
— Appears in: The New York Times , 10 August 2017; (p. C2)

'“Is that about Dorothy or Down Under?”

'That’s the question a friend posted on Facebook in response to my search for horror geeks who would talk to me about the exploitation subgenre Ozploitation. I’ll forgive him for not knowing that the Oz here refers to Australia, not Munchkinland. Ozploitation remains an under-the-radar monster, at least in the United States.' (Introduction)

Deranged Down Under Erik Piepenburg , 2017 single work column
— Appears in: The New York Times , 10 August 2017; (p. C2)

'“Is that about Dorothy or Down Under?”

'That’s the question a friend posted on Facebook in response to my search for horror geeks who would talk to me about the exploitation subgenre Ozploitation. I’ll forgive him for not knowing that the Oz here refers to Australia, not Munchkinland. Ozploitation remains an under-the-radar monster, at least in the United States.' (Introduction)

Dead Heart : Australia’s Horror Cinema Geoff Stanton , 2018 single work column
— Appears in: FilmInk , 31 October 2018;
Last amended 12 Sep 2017 12:38:11
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