A Boy and His Dog (1975)

In post-World War IV United States, a teenaged Don Johnson and his dog companion scavenge the desert while fighting for survival. The dog has been genetically engineered for telepathy, which also somehow makes him unable to forage for his own food, so he uses his keen sense of smell to find the rare woman for Johnson to rape in exchange for food. It’s all as gross and strange as it sounds, getting stranger after Johnson follows a conquest to her underground community that harkens back to the day when America was supposedly ‘great’. The descriptions of this film I had read really downplay/don’t even mention the rape and commodification of women aspects otherwise I can’t imagine I would have checked it out. The dog is a great character, a tough survivalist who has little patience of the nonsense of humans except for what they provide him.