Two young women are driving home when their car breaks down. A group of hillbillies cross paths with them and **** them. They escape but then encounter a death cult who also plan to **** them and then kill them. However, the parents of one of the young women has called the police as their daughter isn’t home yet.

As you can probably tell, this isn’t You’ve Got Mail, this isn’t rated PG and this definitely isn’t the film to put on in the middle of a family get together.

Wrong Way, in spite of its highly questionable plot, is an interesting time capsule of a time when exploitation cinema was really determined to be as extreme as possible whilst trying to hit paydirt with the Drive-in and Grindhouse crowd.

Whilst the plot sounds very extreme, the actual film itself is, surprisingly, very camp and is just too amateurish to truly disgust or repulse any viewers. The film contains some of the funniest overacting AND under acting I’ve ever seen.

There’s plenty of nudity and violence which in some scenes is overplayed and goes on way too long.

The films creators obviously saw Last House on the Left before making this opus but this is light years behind Wes Craven’s shocker. But Wrong Way is still worth seeing as a marker of a certain era and a certain period of time.

Not only was the film branded a Video Nasty, but years before was actually cut by 15 minutes (!) for a cinema release in the UK. This means that a film that is only 1 hr 14 minutes long anyway was shown in cinemas in a truncated 59 mins form. It played as part of a Dirty Mac brigade triple bill with The Ecstasy Girls and Erotic Confessions in some mainstream cinemas and in more, erm, ‘specialist’ theatres (watch out for the sticky seats). God knows what the perverts thought of Wrong Way!

I’m glad I saw this just the once. Who knows if any company would have the guts to release this curio on Blu Ray anytime soon.

2.5 out of 5 stars