What do you mean you don't deliver?

You could be forgiven for thinking Roadkill is another teen slasher flick, it's not far off that.
The only difference is there's no knifes, just a nutter in a truck.

Neil Heath

At one point Roadkill is quite promising, but it doesn't turn into something we've never seen before, which I hoped it would. However, practical jokers be warned!

Plot
Lewis (Walker) is on his way from college to pick up his potential-future girlfriend Venna (Sobieski). On the way he gets a call from his Mum, his brother Fuller (Zahn), is in the nick again.

Lewis bails him out and they begin a long trip across America. To alleviate the boredom, they buy an old CB radio which enables them to avoid traffic police and to perform some practical jokes.

Oh dash, I left the gas on.

Caught up in one of the gags is unrevealed trucker Rusty Nail.

Rusty's not happy about having been had, in fact he's clearly livid, the evidence is his willingness to kill anyone in his path.

Rusty will stop at nothing to avenge the joke and increase his personal dead body toll.

Review
Roadkill on the surface sounds like all the other slasher/psycho movies, and to an extent it is.

The difference is that Roadkill has decent performances and fairly snappy dialogue, much better than the corny chit chat we expect with this sort of film.

But my big problem lies with the psychopath himself.

Rusty Nail has a great name, but he won't go down in history as the best cinematic nutter. That accolade goes to more believable maniacs - Mr Lecter for example.

He goes through seemingly endless measures to humiliate and maim the brothers, so much so that it gets a bit boring and farcical.

I guess no one told Leelee Sobieski that a psychotic trucker is on the loose.

Roadkill can at times be quite scary, that may have been because I was in the cinema on my own.

To its credit, the neon lighting and the lack of music, makes the film fairly eerie.

But, as proven with Wes Craven's 'Scream', the thriller has to have an element of cleverness in order to make it a good movie, Roadkill doesn't quite have it.