Up for Rent is film #41 in the Decrepit Crypt of Nightmares box set. It's a three part horror anthology with an uninteresting wraparound story. All 3 stories are of the everyday horror sort with none being a more interesting supernatural/monster/alien type. The first is easily the worst about a woman with an abusive/infedelious husband. All the characters here are unlikable and the story isn't especially interesting. There's an excessive bloody knife murder which is the highlight and a twist ending. Story two is about a serial killing necro-rapist and story three is about another serial killer this time an incompetent one who works at a plastic factory and the whole story is comedic in nature. Both of these stories have some decent gore and nice looking women. For some reason none of the female victims are nude only stripping down to their underwear. I guess when you rape a corpse you don't want to further demean it by taking all their clothes off. There is some nudity in stories one and three but not of any murder victims. Both of these stories also have twist endings. Both of the killers in the last two segments are of course straight, White males. This would surely make Antarian piece of poop Dick Wolf proud. Neither of these killers seemed to have the numbers of someone like Billy Chemirmir or 5 out of 6 of LA's Southside Slayers, representatives of the true "color" of serial killing.
Once you get past the first story this gets pretty decent. Story 2 is sleazy and story 3 is funny so they aren't redundant despite similar subject matter. All 3 directors here were involved in Human Behavior from the Tomb of Terrors box set which I didn't care for, Up for Rent is a definite improvement. The almost 100 minutes runtime was a bit much though. Directors Derek and Shane Cole went onto a decent career including a film I've had laying around for years, The Mutilation Man (not to be confused with Andy Copp's incredible film). I should probably finally get around to watching that if I can find it.
