Wrong Way | 1972 | USA | Ray Williams

This gritty little softcore shocker was seemingly rushed into production during the filming of Wes Craven’s Last House on the Left, with which it shares some similarities. Two women are stranded in the badlands when their car breaks down, only for some hoodlums to offer assistance a short time later. Instead, they are kidnapped and taken to a biker gang’s hideout where they are subjected to a prolonged sexual assault. After seemingly having their “fun”, the girls are abandoned, only for the unlucky pair to encounter a hippy cult next, their lives seemingly fated to cross a whole manner of criminal behaviour. Almost entirely poor in every technical and creative regard, so much so that the cast and crew are virtually unknown, Wrong Way was surprisingly not one of the main nasty suspects, in spite of its breathtaking misogynistic treatment of its female characters and painfully lingering scenes of rape and abuse framed in a titillating fashion.