Roadgames (1981) review

While transporting slaughtered pigs to Perth, Patrick Quid (Stacy Keach) and his hitchhiking companion "Hitch" (Jamie Lee Curtis) - the daughter of a U.S. diplomat - become convinced there's a serial killer in a green van going around murdering women ... although there's always the possibility fortysomething Pat is delusional.  It's off-brand homage to the Master of Suspense's Rear Window (which was based on Cornell Woolrich's short story "It Had to Be Murder"), moving the location to the cabin of a refrigerated truck - Keach's magnetism carries it part way, but it loses a tremendous amount of energy (and chemistry) when Curtis is suddenly abducted and out of the movie, leading up to a conclusion that's sloppy and a major letdown (it tries making the audience think the main character is losing his mind).  Fun fact: three years after starring in this, Mr. Keach was actually arrested in London for cocaine and had to spend time in Reading Gaol ... just like a certain Oscar Wilde.  Quid would have been impressed by that.