This thriller has been winning over genre fans at festival screenings for months, boasting an impressive 8.2 rating on IMDB from the handful of people who’ve seen it. They say it’s a rather twisty tale, which to be honest the trailer doesn’t capture well, as the setup appears to be pretty basic for a traveling, backwoods horror tale. It looks like one of those movies where young people take a silly risk, end up with the wrong people, and slashing ensues.
Still, hardcore genre fans would know their tropes, and if they’re all saying that Road Games either surprised them or managed to overcome its more obvious plot points, I have to give their opinion some merit. It’s possible that the interesting layer they’re finding is the film’s language, which allegedly flips between English and French. If you aren’t fluent in both, then the transitions would be jarring, and trying to keep track of a twisting tale would become all the more difficult.
Genre fans and critics haven’t always agreed, though. 2013’s You’re Next lit up the festival circuit, but critical response was decidedly more muted. Where Road Games will land with a broader audience remains to be seen, but if you’re a horror/thriller fanatic, then it looks like you should definitely track this one down.
Road Games is directed by Abner Pastoll and stars Andrew Simpson, Joséphine de La Baume, Frédéric Pierrot, and Barbara Crampton. It is being released in the U.S. in theaters and on demand on March 4th, 2016. International release dates can be found here.
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