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Roadkill

Starring: Florian Knoblich, HansJrgen Schatz
Director: Mohammad Farokhmanesh
Original UK Premiere: 2001
Dvd Release: 17th February, 2003
Number Of Discs: 1
Format: PAL, Widescreen, Region 2 Encoding

Subtitled In: Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish

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Background Information: Roadkill

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Roadkill is a 2001 film directed by Mohammad Farokhmanesh. It stars Florian Knoblich & HansJrgen Schatz.

DVD Extras

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DVD Extras: Roadkill on disc has commentaries by the director, by the writers & by stars Steve Zahn & Leelee Sobieski; it also has a fascinating wealth of alternate endings including one in which the whole third act of the movie goes in a radically different direction. It has a widescreen anamorphic visual ratio 2.35:1 & vibrant Dolby 5.1 sound that pumps up the tension in some crucial scenes.

Editorial DVD Review

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Director John Dahl has made more ingenious thrillers than Roadkill, but few with quite its sense of terrible consequences arising from a minor prank. On a road trip, jailbird Fuller persuades his younger, student brother Lewis to pretend to be a girl on a CB radio; they set a pushy trucker up with a date with an obnoxious guest at the motel where they stay for the night. The results are far from funny, the guest ends up dead & they find themselves being chased for a while by a large sinister truck. And then, when they have picked up Veena , the girl with whom Lewis is in love, it all gets worse, much worse.

Dahl has picked up on one of the most sinister aspects of hostage situations, which is that quite minor concessions in negotiation can often be more meaningful than they seem. If the film has a weakness it is that the irresponsibility of the two young men is eminently plausible & not especially sympathetic, & the trucker, rather like the faceless driver in Steven Spielbergs Duel, is never more than a monstrous force of nature. Along the way, though, Roadkill delivers an appropriate number of thrills & sudden reversals, which all makes for an exciting journey into terror.

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