Tuesday, July 9, 2024

'Road Games' (2015) – Abner Pastoll.

Photomodel hotties meet Hitch-Hiking sun-stippled French back roads shadowed by a sinister serial killer, with events taking a grisly turn once they accept the ostensible hospitality of a demonstratively tweaked married couple. An absorbing psychothriller, Road Games is largely successful in its increasingly lurid attempts at wrong-footing the audience. Pastoll's sexified, stylishly Off-beat shocker's eccentric characters playfully distracts from some of the more implausible conceits. Once the amorous couple are anxiously ensconced within the 'Old Dark House' the splendidly spooky shenanigans begin in earnest! The luminous beauty Joséphine de La Baume is exquisite enough to readily forgive any aggressively alien personality quirks, and the entirely lovely scream dame, Barbara Crampton is a delight as the altogether less than sane, mansion stalking yummy mummy. Those familiar with skewed Spider Baby dramatics, might be the first to decode the dark mystery, but, either way, Road Games has much to recommend it to tantalizingly twisted thriller fans.





 

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