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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Like Road Games, it turns an ordinary journey into an unnerving pursuit, building dread through roadside spaces, missing-person uncertainty, and a protagonist compelled to keep following a disturbing trail.
02
Why this pick
A tightly escalating highway nightmare with the same isolated-road tension: an everyday traveler is forced into a desperate search amid strangers whose helpfulness feels increasingly uncertain.
03
Why this pick
Its stripped-back road setting, hostile truck, and sustained cat-and-mouse pressure make it a superb companion to Road Games’ sun-blasted highway paranoia.
04
Why this pick
Another lean, menacing Australian-road thriller, driven by a lone motorist, an elusive killer, and the unnerving sense that open highways offer no safety.
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Why this pick
It shares Richard Franklin’s taste for clean suspense mechanics and Australian unease, replacing the outback highway with an isolated ocean voyage and a dangerously unreadable stranger.
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01 / THE STORY
The film opens on truck driver Patrick Quid (Stacy Keach) as he pulls into a motel for the night. Quid notices a man in a green van checking in with a female hitchhiker he had passed earlier because the trucking company policy forbids it. Nevertheless, Quid is upset at the man for taking the last room in the motel and picking up the attractive hitcher. In the motel, the hitcher strums a guitar naked on the bed, while the unidentified man unpacks a new guitar string. He winds the string around his gloved hands and uses it to strangle the woman.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Captain Carefu
Fred Frugal
Frugal Son
Honeymoon Man
Honeymoon Woman
Pamela 'Hitch' Rushworth
Sneezy Rider
Patrick 'Pat' Quid
