Girls for Rent (1974) User Reviews

Another loaf

[Tender-Flesh · 5/10 · 14 November 2009]

The Syndicate has hired Donna to blackmail a politician. She's supposed to drug him, but the drug ends up giving the old fellow a heart attack(which was the plan all along, unbeknownst to Donna). Donna doesn't want to be a part of this and high tails it out of town and heads for Mexico. Almost immediately after leaving, the two women who recruited her, Erica the assassin and Sandra the prison escapee, set out to catch and kill her for trying to run. Then, a series of "unfortunate events" occur. Donna's car is stolen by a hitchhiker at a rundown gas station run by a tubby born-again Christian. Then Donna accepts a ride from an old gem collector who promptly drives her in his old Datsun back to his place to pleasure his idiot son. While she leaves the son in the lurch, Donna steals the truck and takes off down the old dirt road for God knows where with barely any fuel. Meanwhile, Erica and Sandra find the hitchhiker and blow her brains out then speed back to the filling station to find Donna who ironically was there when they stopped to ask Tubby if he'd seen the blue Pinto Donna drove. Then they find out where the old man lives and burn rubber out that way. WELL! By this time, Donna has indeed run out of gas and as luck would have it, a bo-hunk with the traditional 70's beard pulls up out of nowhere and she remembers him from the gas station. Well, she's got no time to worry if he's a serial rapist or whatnot, so she accepts a ride from him back to his campsite in the mountains. Then things get hairy. Erica and Sandra find the old man's house and promptly pistol whip him then later, Sandra rapes his idiot son and puts a bullet in his skull just as he's about to, well, you know.

Now, I don't want to spoil the ending chase scene which completely comes out of left field and doesn't at all have the sort of storyline you'd expect from Hollywood. Let's just say the words Dune Buggy and Machine Gun are something you need to be familiar with for the last five minutes of this flick.

I imagine they slapped this film with the silly video title of I Spit on Your Corpse to cash in on the popularity of the cult hit I Spit on Your Grave. This isn't a revenge thriller in that vein at all. For fans of bad films, you'll be surprised at the final scenes which actually are pretty good. And! the music! The soundtrack was the best thing about this movie. Real jazzy, almost blue music, that really changed to meet the needs of the action scenes. Very surprising, indeed. Overall, this film is the absolute best 70's adult film ever made....minus the sex scenes. There are several gratuitous bare breast shots and most of the babes in this movie were probably in other forgotten adult films, as they stand around to look hot and have no lines. If this film had been shot in two versions, one being hardcore XXX, then it would rate much much higher, I wager.

This isn't a well-known film and I only watched it because I mistakenly thought it was a horror movie. Also, I had never seen any other "work" done by Georgina Spelvin so I didn't know which character she was until the movie was over. I can't believe I'm actually sort of recommending this, if you like cheese.

Not Too Bad for a Low-Budget Production of This Type

[Uriah43 · 4/10 · 4 August 2022]

This film begins in Mexico with a small group of female convicts being transported outside of the prison walls to work on a detail. Having conspired with one another beforehand, they then create a diversion which allows one of the women named "Sandra" (Georgina Spelvin) to escape on foot where another woman named "Erica" (Rosalind Miles) is waiting in a car for her. Erica then takes her to a large house where a mob boss by the name of "Moreno" (Kent Taylor) introduces himself and then explains that he wants her to kill a local politician by the name of "Halloran" (Hugh Warden). Sandra agrees and with the help of Erica they convince another one of Moreno's female employees named "Donna" (Susan McIver) to seduce Halloran and, in the process, slip a pill into his drink which will put him to sleep. Although Donna is initially reluctant, both Sandra and Erica convince her that everything will be okay. However, once Donna does as she is told, she discovers that the pill she put in Halloran's drink was extremely deadly and that she had just been tricked into committing murder. Needless to say, this terrifies her and in a state of sheer panic she decides to escape from Moreno's organization by hastily attempting to drive to Mexico. What she doesn't know, however, is that one of Moreno's henchmen had bugged her phone and as a result both Sandra and Erica have now been sent to silence her--once and for all. Now, rather than reveal any more, I will just say that, for a low-budget production, this film wasn't nearly as bad as I initially expected. To that effect, I thought that both Georgina Spelvin and Susan McIver performed quite well, all things considered. Unfortunately, I have to admit that some of the other actors didn't do nearly as well and the film suffered because of it. That being said, while this movie wasn't terribly bad, it wasn't without its flaws and I have rated it accordingly. Slightly below average.

A nihilisic movie

[BandSAboutMovies · 4/10 · 7 December 2023]

Donna Taylor (Susie Ewing-McIver) is a sex worker recruited by the Syndicate to blackmail a politician by taking him to a motel room, drugging him and taking some photos. Yet she soon learns from Sandra (Georgina Spelvin, The Devil In Miss Jones) and Erica (Rosalind Miles, Friday Foster) that she's actually poisoned the man and they'll kill her if she goes to the authorities. She heads to Mexico but her car get stolen by a hitchhiker, which means she needs a ride, which she gets from H. R. Stringham (Robert Livingston) who wants him to make love to his developmentally challenged son Ben. He's more child than grown-up, at least in his brain, so she runs and steals a car. She's saved by David, the man that she turned down for a ride before and they have sex.

While that's going on, H. R. and Ben have met Sandra and Erica. Sandra is the one to be Ben's first and she follows up that act by blowing his brains out and then shooting his dad. If this was a Hollywood movie, Donna and David would get away, but this is an Al Adamson movie, so Erica kills her and David tracks her down - he's already murdered Sandra - and kills her.

It's a ride. A ride through the desert.

Entertaining as Hell

[monsterhead_x · 10 October 2001]

Not being a tremendous fan of director Al Adamson, I watched this film for the first time and was pleasently surprised. The action is great, the sleaze-factor was high, and the three main women in the film are dynamite. And the ending! Man, what a shocker! Completley non-typical for this kind of drive-in movie. It's very surprising, and made my impression of the film even better.

The movie is cheesy, yes, but at a time when most movies made in Hollywood let you down, I SPIT ON YOUR CORPSE is a breath of fresh air. After all, the worst thing a movie can be is dull. And this movie certainly ain't.

Not as horrible as you might think!!

[planktonrules · 2/10 · 8 September 2009]

Considering that the film has a score of 2.1 and it was made by Al Adamson, you'd expect the film to be a lot worse. Now I am NOT saying it was good--it really does suck. But the film isn't nearly as bad as I'd assume--and I definitely assume the worst when I see an Adamson film!! He definitely ranks in the top 10 of worst film directors of all time--along with such great "auteurs" as Ed Wood, Ted Mikels, Hershell Gordon Lewis, William Grefe, Ray Dennis Steckler and the like. If you don't believe me, try watching Adamson's Dracula VS. FRANKENSTEIN, HORROR OF THE BLOOD MONSTERS, HELL'S BLOODY DEVILS and FIVE BLOODY GRAVES (the only one I listed that I managed to rate as high as 2 and most of his films have overall ratings in the range of 1.5-2.5). He truly was a genius at creating garbage--and bad film fans like me enjoy laughing at the ineptitude of the man and his films. But, as I was saying, this film isn't nearly as bad as this list of dreck...though, naturally, it still is dreck! The film is about a team of two female assassins who use a prostitute to kill a man. THe prostitute has no idea she's being used when she slips a pill into the man's drink for the assassins. When the man then dies, the prostitute takes off for Mexico. But, the assassins' boss is a careful man and he orders the two to follow her and kill her--he wants no witnesses. The rest of the film is a cross-country journey to complete this hit.

At no point in the film is there any real excitement or thrills. The chases are amazingly low-speed, dull and filled with Ford Pinto vehicles (now THAT'S the perfect chase car!). As a result, the best the film can deliver is a mild break from the tedium. This break from the tedium also occurs when the ladies in the film inexplicably take off their clothes--often at the most inopportune and ridiculous moment. The worst example is the sick and degenerate scene involving one of the lady assassins raping a retarded guy and shooting him in the head during this! It's not funny but gross and even Adamson should have been ashamed of himself for this outrage. But, even with this sick touch, the film manages to entertain at times (particularly at the film's climax--no pun intended), though this is quite accidental. I'd score this one a 2 and because of the retarded rape scene, I DON'T recommend you see it--some things are better left unseen.

A gem from the 70's

[stricklandpat · 6/10 · 23 April 2009]

For a while now, I've been on a quest to find hidden epic film experiences in what most people consider trash. I've come pretty close on many occasions, but possibly never so close as with this film. Al Adamson, the director, had a singular vision. A vision that admittedly fell short sometimes, but nonetheless provides for a viewing experience that is always, to say the least, unique. Georgina Spelvin, the overwhelmingly underrated star of the original "The Devil in Miss Jones", rips to shreds the southwestern Arizona scenery in Adamson's "I Spit on your Corpse", AKA "Girls For Rent". Here she plays a chain gang killer who makes her escape while on a desert road crew, killing several guards on her own. Once back in the loop, she's hired to hit a greedy politician, and so plans his demise with a heart attack inducing drug to be administered to him by a hooker who also works for the Man who hired Georgina. The hooker freaks when he dies because she was told it would just knock him out so they could take incriminating pictures of him. She goes on the run and hit-man logic states that if shes scared enough to run, shes scared enough to talk. So Georgina and her tough talking 70's style Black female partner, Played by Rosalind Miles set out after her across the desert of Arizona. Even though our hooker heroine has quite the head start, the salt and pepper hit ladies soon catch up with her. But because of poor driving skills or under performing Ford Pinto's they lose their prey. Then after a series of near misses and brutal outbursts the film climaxes with a very, almost, satisfying climax that even while being a little too convenient, still packs quite a punch. Highly recommended for anyone seeking a cool 70's vibe in their action quest.

Don't spit on this film!

[Artemis-9 · 7/10 · 16 September 2002]

You may have put aside all the trash from trash video distributors like, you know, the ones behind this; you may think you won't give Al Adamson (director) or Samuel Sherman (producer) a second chance to trip you into a poor evening watching cheap soft-core, but!... This jewel of a cheap, quick movie here, made up in 60 days, has superb acting, reasonable direction, well photographed mountain and desert scenarios, creditable script (with not that many goofs), and - being a crime movie, action, thriller - a surprise ending. No, I won't reveal if it's better for you to drive into the desert with a car full of petrol, or without it. You shall find by yourself. If you can find this videotape somewhere, rent it, buy it, or rob it. If you had seen it, you'd opt for the third option, for sure :-))

A (quasi) good Al Adamson film, who would've thunk it?

[movieman_kev · 6/10 · 20 April 2009]

Low-budget schlock director, Al Adamson & frequent collaborator, John D'Amato tell this story of Sandra Tate (adult movie star Georgina Spelvin of "Devil in Miss Jones" & "the Jade Pussycat" fame) a prisoner who escapes from custody during a cat-fight between the other female prisoners before she's picked up by Erica, a member of a crime syndicate who whisks her away to the head of said organization who promptly offers her a job which she promptly accepts. When the prostitute whom she hires to help eliminate her first assignment (a politician with a bad heart) bugs out and skips town for the border, Sandra & Erica are hot on her trail to tie up this loose end (no pun intended)

I'm not usually too found of Al Adamson helmed films (Doctor Dracula & Dracula Vs. Frankenstien are utterly abysmal), but compared to his other output, this picture is actually pretty good. Doesn't hurt that I like Georgina Spelvin and think she was an under-rated golden age adult star (speaking of which she plays a real piece of work here) The movie drags in parts and has some filler, but the dune buggy/car chase was pretty good and although the movie was far from perfect I didn't feel as if I wasted my time watching it.

Eye Candy: Sandy Carey & Tallie Cochrane get topless; Susan McIver and Georgina Spelvin both show T&A

My Grade: C-

Decent But Nothing Too Special

[Michael_Elliott · 9 January 2011]

Girls for Rent (1974)

** (out of 4)

Action flick from drive-in master Adamson about a crime boss (Kent Taylor) who breaks a woman (Georgina Spelvin) out of prison so that she can run his "girls for hire" business. The newly released woman sends a new girl out on a hit where she unknowingly kills a man, which scares her so she takes off running for Mexico. This leaves the boss and another woman (Rosalind Miles) to try and track her down. Considering some of the films Adamson made this one here actually isn't too bad and manages to be fairly well-made. The biggest problem is that it really lacks any good pacing or energy to make its 90-minute running time go by fast enough. There are many times throughout the film where you'll be watching a scene and wonder why you're watching it because it goes no where and in reality it adds nothing to the actual story. I'm going to guess that Adamson needed to expand the running time and this is the reason but no matter what the reason was it ends up hurting the film. The movie is pretty stupid from start to finish but there are enough silly moments to make it worth viewing. One such moment happens during a "high speed" car chase, which includes one of the cars being a Pinto. Another scene has Spelvin raping a retarded man before shooting him in the head. Being exploitation you can expect a fair amount of nudity by lovely young ladies who probably went to Hollywood expecting to become Monroe but instead find themselves being shown nude throughout the drive-ins in America. Spelvin is best known for her lead role in DEVIL IN MISS JONES and she isn't too bad here but then again she's not that good either. I will say she has one of the most non-threatening laughs in the history of bad guys giving disturbing laughs to look creepy. Miles was a pro at various blaxploitation flicks and she's without a question the most interesting thing here. This turned out to be Taylor's final film as he would retire from the business (or just simply got fed up that no one was offering him work except Adamson). GIRLS FROM RENT, on DVD as I SPIT ON YOUR CORPSE, isn't the greatest film ever made but it's certainly not as bad as some of the director's work. This movie wasn't made for the art crowd so only those wanting low-budget thrills should check it out.