Wrong Way

This is the type of movie you get when giving a camera to a bunch of drunken fat guys that watched way too much porno in their lives. They presumably intended to make their very own imitation of Wes Craven's "Last House on the Left" with aggressive sex scenes and violent revenge-action, only they only got around filming the sex footage and completely forgot about the action. Two young girls, surprisingly cute-looking and sympathetic, are picked up by bored rednecks and brought to a remote place where they get raped and beaten for hours! It's unbelievable how LONG these rape sequences last! Viagra must have been popular in the early 70's already. When the dirty beer-drinking & pot-smoking farmers have finally satisfied their lusts, the girls try to get back to civilization on foot but – sadly for them – they get captured by a pathetic hippie-cult, led by what unquestionably must be THE most annoying guy I've ever seen. The agony of this film ends with two totally unrelated characters having sex with a prostitute in a sleazy motel room. Who the hell are those people??? Just in case you still have doubts, "Wrong Way" should NOT be watched by anyone who still has some good taste left in him/her. The absolute low point was when the camera zoomed in on the girls as they were washing their vagina after being raped several times. At that point, I was really wondering why I was still watching this crap. The editing is lousy and the choice of music couldn't be more wrong. None of the cast members starred in another movie ever again and that's probably for the best. Rating 2 out of 10; a point for the girls each because I honestly felt sorry for them.

It is really astonishing when one thinks that, unlike today, there actually was a movie-making climate which allowed for films like Wrong Way to be made and put in real movie theaters. This is an astonishingly bad film but it is a fascinating example of early 70's sleaze no doubt.

Two very pretty girls take the "wrong way" which is a short cut, their car breaks down, two hippies come along in their truck to give them a ride to help, but take them to their other hippie friends instead. They rape the girls repeatedly in the middle of nowhere until finally letting them go, where the girls then meet other crazies who rape them too. Stick in a very mild police investigation and, for the hell of it out of nowhere, toss in some drug runners who have sex with another pretty girl and there's the movie.

The group of hippies that rape the girls first are an amazingly sleazy bunch. Beer bellies, greasy hair, all unattractive, a total nightmare for any woman. They also are real "backwoods" and that's scary in itself. For instance, one (named "Crabs" I think) keeps scratching his groin, then complains to another that he got that itch after he let the other guy "suck" him. Ouch! The "acting" (especially by the two girls, who give it their best) is hilarious, but the rape scenes are truly wonders to behold. When the hippies rape the girls, you see much more of the men's ugly bodies than the girls. One guy's butt is even green! The rape lasts a very long time, with cheesy folk guitar music playing in the background. Before the rape, we even see another group of hippies hanging around who are against raping the girls, but a shotgun held by the leader chases them away.

Then later on for seemingly no reason, two ugly drug runners have sex with a very pretty drugged out girl, in another overlong scene. It all ends soon after in a quick "resolution" to the "plot."

Of course Wrong Way is a horrible movie. It's not even that much fun to watch. But you can't take your eyes off it.

As far as I am aware, I Spit On Your Grave holds the ignominious record for the longest rape scene ever committed to celluloid, but Wrong Way doesn't exactly hold back either: the film's two young victims, Nancy and Cathy, are passed between several lank-haired, drug-crazed drop-outs for so long that I was amazed they were able to walk away afterwards. It's such a ridiculously drawn-out scene that it ultimately loses the power to shock.

Left in the middle of nowhere, their clothes tattered and torn, Cathy and Nancy proceed to wander aimlessly through the countryside, eventually seeking help from a group of hippies, unaware that these potential saviours are in fact a murderous Manson-like cult who are in the process of burying a body. The hippies take the girls hostage and abuse them further. Meanwhile, the local police comb the area for the missing teenagers.

The film then abruptly turns its attention to a totally unconnected pair of villains holed up in a cabin who have a hostage of their own, a pretty woman who they've got drugged up on heroin. After forcing her to have sex, they bind and gag her and shove her in the trunk of their car. Before they can drive away, the police arrive on the scene and a shootout occurs. The film then wraps things up in a matter of seconds by showing the killer hippies being arrested/shot and Cathy and Nancy being freed.

Needless to say, Wrong Way is pure exploitation: the film's tasteless content, grainy photography, reprehensible villains, and no-frills direction positively screams grindhouse, while it's gritty low budget aesthetic and unflinching scenes of degradation have seen it compared to Last House On The Left. But whereas I Spit On Your Grave and Last House justified the graphic depiction of sexual violence with a healthy dose of brutal revenge, Wrong Way does nothing of the sort, making it seem even more exploitative as a result. This is z-grade trash that simply revels in abuse; it has all the technical competence of a roughie, but with none of the hard-core content (there is, however, full frontal nudity from both sexes, and lots of shots of male butts, one of which is a worrying shade of green!).

5/10. Utterly deplorable and completely amateurish misogynistic nonsense, so inept and outrageous that fans of all things exploitation will simply have to see it to believe it.

Hard to get sleazefest that was only available on VHS in the UK before their was any censorship. And it shows because it had a lot of nudity, male and female. But don't think it's attractive because the rape scene's are a bore.

It involved all one-time actors and one-time director and it's easy to spot because the acting is really wooden and some scene's do take to long. Bad editing and strange score give it an exploitation feeling. Not only that, it looks like it was somehow based on Last House On The Left (1972) another rape/revenge flick.

As I said it do involve a lot of nudity but nothing is attractive. It's full bush era back then and you know how they looked, with their white asses and tits. The males also walk around full frontal and it's quit a shock because they are all fat or have bellies.

Two girls are being kidnapped and abused. The father of one of the girls is afraid something happened and the police starts an investigation. Once the rape is done, this flick really becomes slow and boring. You wander how it got made. Even the rape scene's must have been a one taker. They looked like they had a drink or so because some of the boys are laughing all the time. Guess they had fun rubbing their cocks against the girls. And the girl towards the end giving head and being taken from behind at the same time is almost laughable. And didn't they forgot to add the revenge?

But again, it's sought after because it's some kind of sleaze classic although I have seen better. Unavailable and a rare catch.

Gore 0/5 Nudity 2,5/5 Effects 0/5 Story 1/5 Comedy 0/5

On paper Wrong Way should be a winner. Two girls have a car breakdown and get repeatedly raped, anti-climax, the end. Nothing but pure unadulterated exploitation in a brisk 77 odd minutes with a significant portion taken up by ultra sleazy soft-core rape, its a real shame that it ends up so darned boring. Ineptly shot and edited with dire acting but the worst thing of all is that the assorted butt ugly males have more nudity than the lovely girls. That's like, the biggest mistake a film like this can possibly make, its a total, profoundly asinine misjudgement of the target audience that could always seem like intentional subversion were it not for the fact that nothing here really feels intentional at all. On the other hand, one of the guys asses has a weird grayish green look to it like he's turning into a zombie from the buttcrack up, which kinda made me chuckle. Also, one of them is called Crabs because he apparently got them when he let one of his buddies give him head, and another likes to eat raw eggs to somehow improve his sexual prowess. So there's a bit of off key weirdness floating through this one to ease the disinterest and it has some effect, but not generally enough. I actually pretty much zoned out for a good deal of the viewing, spent more time pondering it's makers and their purpose, the moods of the actors and the unfinished seeming plot construction. Given that this came out in the same year as Last House on the Left its possible that it was cynically rushed out as a quickie rip off, making it something of a suitably ignoble godfather to the works of The Asylum. But maybe it was made independently, which could almost make it a pre hardcore precursor to the many great roughies of the decade, except that hardcore flicks had already turned legal so there was absolutely no reason not to go down that route. Almost certainly some combination of booze and hate was behind this, and I would wonder cocaine as well were the budget not so low. And did any of the actors care, even a little about proceedings? I've an inkling they were probably jobbing porno performers, but then the rapes are so lifeless and poorly handled it would seem they had not even a smidgen of professional pride. Meh, I still feel kinda sorry for them, I actually love seeing degradation on camera but this whole film was just lame, so lame in fact that just writing about it makes me dislike it even more than I did when I watched it just a couple of days ago. The only conceivably reason to watch this is if you happen to be some kind of rapesploitation cinema historian, everyone else should steer far clear.