FORMAT: DVD
Rent-a-Girl kicks off with a great opening credits sequence and an even better theme song. (You’re guaranteed to have it stuck in your head days after you watch it.) The beginning is almost set up like an old scare picture from the ‘30s, as a frightened Karen (Barbara Wood) recounts her sordid past to an authority figure. We then flashback to learn how she got into this whole mess. Seems she moved into an apartment and tried to fit in with the swinging “art” scene of her neighbors. It doesn’t take long before she begins posing nude for them. Turns out, the couple are really pimps whose girls specialize in “maid services” and being nude models for seedy artists and sleazy photographers. Naturally, when Karen’s fiancé finds out she’s been posing for smutty pictures, he calls off the wedding. Karen quickly spirals from there and eventually, her neighbors trick her into joining their secret BDSM society.
This wild and fun New York roughie (from Cambist Films, who would later go legitimate by releasing such favorites as Vampyres and The Crazies) features a little something for everybody. There’s whipping, body painting, hosing, and spanking. The highlight is the wonderful party scene that culminates with a game of “strip pool”. It’s also full of cool camerawork, interesting lighting, and some great music.
Sure, a few of the actresses are less than photogenic. (Although softcore beauties like Gigi Darlene and Darlene Bennett make brief appearances.) However, their willingness to disrobe more than makes up for it. Some of the acting is bad too (actors flub their lines and/or are obviously reading from cue cards), but hey, with this much smut to go around, I’m sure you won’t even notice and/or care.
Director William L. Rose went on to direct The Girl in Room 2A and the legendary (and sadly, lost) exploitation flick, The Smut Peddler.
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