Friday, November 28, 2014

Take an Easy Ride (1976, Kenneth F. Rowles)

"Take an Easy Ride" is an informational film on the dangers of hitch-hiking in the UK. It gets it's 'message' across by featuring an abundance of violence and rape.

Several different hitch-hiking scenarios are presented - one being a pair of girls on their way to a hippie-fest who fall prey to a smut-loving rapist/killer. Another lone hitching female encounters a married couple who are into drunken threesomes. There's another pair of young girls who are actually the ones attacking motorists and, finally, two other girls who manage to get a ride with a kindly old trucker who pulls no shenanigans...

This is as "informational" to the public on the dangers of hitch-hiking as "Last House on the Left" was about the dangers of buying weed off the street or "I Spit on Your Grave" was on the risks of letting delivery boys in your house. "Take an Easy Ride" is straight-up 'exploit'-sleaze with some brutal mud puddle rape and a pretty steamy lesbian sex scene. Gotta love that retro MUFF! It's definitely an entertaining bit of '70s obscurity...

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