Richard Franklin’s ROAD GAMES is hitting 4k and Blu-ray on February 10th from Umbrella, and has new special features from Reverend Entertainment, including a new interview with star Stacy Keach and booklet essay from historian Christian Bogh. Umbrella is tremendously proud of their new restoration of this Australia-lensed classic, and has this release available in several packages. Pre-orders are open now HERE. Details below.
SYNOPSIS
Pat Quid is a loan trucker who always plays games to keep his sanity on long hauls through the desolate Australian outback. Hitch is a free-spirited traveller looking for excitement with a game of her own. And somewhere up ahead, on the loneliest highway in the world, is a psychopathic killer: a latter day Jack the Ripper, whose game is picking up young female hitchhikers and leaving their remains on the desolate Nullabor Plains. But when Quid’s innocent curiosity turns into amateur sleuthing, the killer decides to raise the stakes… and the rules of this road take some very deadly turns.
Directed by Richard Franklin
Starring Alan Hopgood; Grant Page; Jamie Lee Curtis; Marion Edward; Stacy Keach
Only Available from the Umbrella webstore and independent retailers, the ROADGAMES Collector’s Edition includes:
DETAILS AND SPECIAL FEATURES
Only Available from the Umbrella webstore and independent retailers, the ROADGAMES Collector’s Edition includes:
- 300-page hardback book featuring behind-the-scenes material, scripts, storyboards and essays by Priscilla Page, Christian Bogh and more
- 100-page script and storyboard book
- Custom designed packaging by Time Tomorrow
- 8 art cards featuring original production stills
- A3 reversible poster of original art
- Limited edition numbered release
UHD Disc 1:
- Audio commentary with producer/director Richard Franklin, moderated by Perry Martin
- Audio commentary with cinematographer Vincent Monton, production coordinator Helen Watts & costume designer Aphrodite Kondos, moderated by filmmaker Mark Hartley
- NEW! Audio commentary with critics and festival programmers Richard Kupiers & Bryn Tilly
- Original trailer restored in 4k
BD Disc 2:
- Audio commentary with producer/director Richard Franklin, moderated by Perry Martin
- Audio commentary with cinematographer Vincent Monton, production coordinator Helen Watts & costume designer Aphrodite Kondos, moderated by filmmaker Mark Hartley
- NEW! Audio commentary with critics and festival programmers Richard Kupiers & Bryn Tilly
- NEW! Deleted Scenes with optional audio commentary by editor Edward McQueen-Mason
- NEW! Grading Roadgames: Restoration featurette with cinematographer Vincent Monton
- NEW! The chase scene: Storyboard comparison
- NEW! Australian cinema’s lost holy grail: Umbrella’s history of Roadgames restorations
- NEW! Roadgames on physical media: Release comparison
- Kangaroo Hitchcock: The making of Roadgames
- NEW! Cinematographer Vincent Monton on Roadgames: 2026 Interview
- NEW! A game of tone and timing: 2026 interview with editor Edward McQueen-Mason
- NEW! Observations of a bemused outsider: 2026 interview with production designer Jon Dowding
- He Decided on Homicide: 1981 interview with director Richard Franklin
- Extended Not Quite Hollywood interviews with Jamie Lee Curtis, Stacy Keach, Richard Franklin, Grant Page, Everett De Roche, Vincent Monton and Tom Burstall
- Roadgames – A Lecture: 1980 recording of Richard Franklin, co-producer Barbi Taylor & composer Brian May
- 1980 audio script reading with Richard Franklin, Stacy Keach & Marion Edwards
- 1980 and 2001 audio interviews with director Richard Franklin
- 2016 audio interviews with actor Stacy Keach and stunt coordinator & actor Grant Page
- 2016 restoration featurette with cinematographer Vincent Monton
- NEW! The Tao of Quid: 2026 Interview With Actor Stacy Keach
- NEW! The man who saw too much: film historian and podcaster Robert Kelly on Roadgames
- Music Demos by composer Brian May
- NEW! The Jumping Jeweller Of Lavender Bay: 1971 short film written by Richard Franklin
- NEW! The Old Man’s Eyes: 1972 short film directed by Richard Franklin
- …And His Ghost May Be Heard: 1973 short film directed by Richard Franklin
- Original Trailer
