The Road to Ruin (Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Picture Vol. 15) Ed Wood Boots MacAllistar (1981

Boots MacAllistar (1981

‘Long Arm of the Law 1 & 2’ left local audiences shell-shocked when first released

Great horror flick

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The Road to Ruin (Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Picture Vol. 15) Ed Wood Boots MacAllistar (1981One of the most popular films of the exploitation cinema was Willis Kents The Road to Ruin, about a group of wholesome high schoolers whose flirtations with vice launch them down a slippery moral slope to death and degradation. Unlike the genres more campy and hysterical scare films, such as Reefer Madness, The Road to Ruin is a finely crafted melodrama that is deceptively effective, building to an unexpectedly devastating climax. Filmed first as a