-Grindhouse Fest spotlights the cult gems, sleaze classics, and deranged wonders that defined exploitation cinema’s golden run. Proceed with delight and caution-
Directed by Ray Williams
Produced by Ron Kelly
Starring:
- Laurel Canyon
- Forrest Lorne
- Ron Namkram
- John Zinger
- Les Aron as Biker
- Gary Haase as Biker
- John Barnum as Jack (uncredited)
- Ron Darby as Mark (uncredited)
- Linda Marie as Girl in Dream (uncredited)
Rating: 
Ray Williams’ gang-rape epic Wrong Way tests the outer limits of exploitation endurance, devoting nearly its entire miserable runtime to the prolonged sexual abuse of two unfortunate girls by barbaric, stoned biker trash. If the infamous gang-rape sequence in I Spit on Your Grave once felt excessive, this ineffectual slog exists purely to challenge that assumption, turning repetition and rapey length into its sole raison d’être. Though it occasionally offers breaks via clumsy parallel cutting to a half-baked police investigation, the film’s grim determination to turn sordid sexploitation into a marathon affords no real respite to its hapless actresses, who are then shuffled off into encounters with murderous hippies. To further underline the pointlessness, the film caps itself with a last-minute subplot involving two sleazy lowlifes sexually exploiting a kidnapped girl for heroin, because degradation apparently wasn’t stretched far enough. A Section 3 Video Nasty that out-nasties the DPP’s official 72 yet still ranks among the most obscenely awful junk ever screened.
