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Lesser Rollin's film, but not a TOTAL waste of time, 17 August 2007
Author: lazarillo

This movie recently showed up on the DVD collection "The Grindhouse Experience" (as if I haven't bought enough Jean Rollin's movies on purpose) under the unlikely title of "High School Hitchhikers" because apparently the original English title "Schoolgirl Hitchhikers" sounds too perverse or politically incorrect by today's standards (don't worry though--the lead actresses look mature enough that this could have easily been called "Post-Doctoral Hitchhikers"). Actually though it would probably have been more accurate to use directly translated the French title "Impudent Young Girls"--I don't know if the protagonists are all that "impudent" but at no point are they ever seen hitch-hiking.

The "plot" (people familiar with Jean Rollin's body of work should be rolling around on the floor laughing right now) involves two female drifters who go into a strange château for no apparent reason. After some typical girl-on-girl action they run into some criminals on the lam who. . . well, that's pretty much it. It is similar to a lot of better Rollin's movies like "Requiem for a Vampire" with the gratuitous lesbianism and silly and unconvincing bondage and torture scenes, but it lacks the bizarre surrealism or more "fantastique" elements that mark the director's more interesting work. This is just a knock-off softcore sex flick along the lines of "Bacchanales Sexuales" but with shorter sex scenes (which may or may not be a plus depending on your motives for watching it).

The best thing about this movie is that the two lead actresses are very appealing (at least, if you're not some drooling pervert drawn in by the lurid title). Joelle Couer had a short but memorable career in early 70's French sexploitation film, including Rollin's own (much better) film "The Demoniacs", but she refused to make the leap to hardcore and was supplanted by much less attractive actresses like Claudine Beccaire. The other, more obscure lead looks like a 1970's French version of Mena Suvari. She is wearing a plaid skirt at the beginning of the film (though not for long!), which might partially explain the misleading title. I guess this movie isn't a TOTAL waste of time but just about.

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Beautiful girls, inept thieves and even more inept "heroes", 20 February 2008
6/10
Author: doc_hartman from Boise, ID

It had been a bad Monday when I popped this one in to the 'ol DVD player. I just wanted to wind down and be entertained and this film delivered. Grindhouse veteran Jean-Jacques Renon was the cinematographer for this film (credited as Oscar Lapin) and gave the film the only hint of class it has. Honestly, great camera work and lighting here with some gutsy angles.

On to the film. We open with two Eurobabes walking through the French countryside when they come upon a stone wall. For reasons unknown to me, the director (Jean Rollin) decides we must watch every excruciating second of the girls' navigation of this wall but I digress. On the other side of the wall is a French Baroque manor that, in spite of its dilapidated looks outside, is surprisingly tidy inside. After a quick tryst, Joëlle Coeur (the characters names aren't mentioned I think) needs a ciggy and discovers a slimy Euroguy with a pornstache and a gun staying in one of the downstairs rooms. Not put off by either the stache or the gun, Joëlle dances in the sheets and when her friend discovers the two, she joins in! The next morning a "plot" ensues and we find out guys with mustaches and guns aren't always worth a roll in the hay. Somehow, this idiot and two other idiots managed to burgle some jewels, I assume from some more idiotic idiot. Those jewels wind up missing and the thieves assume it was our Eurobabes what done it. After some torture and some more torture we are introduced to a French PI and his Eurogirl (I believe she is actually wearing a cheerleading outfit) assistant. From here on the plot has more lead changes than a girls basketball game with the good guys getting the drop on the bad guys only to lose it again.

The film is mindless trash but an entertaining 70 minutes none the less. If your looking for polished soft-core, go elsewhere, but if you just want to vedge at the end of the day with a cold one, this is a good film to use.

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Different Film for Rollin, 27 February 2008
Author: Michael_Elliott from Louisville, KY

Schoolgirl Hitchhikers (1973)

** (out of 4)

Jean Rollin directs this crime film with a touch of lesbians and sex. Two young girls hitchhiking through the country stop at a house, which they think is empty. Later that night, after some hot lesbian sex, they discover three people are also at the house and they turn out to be thieves missing some stolen jewelry and naturally they think the girls have stolen it. This isn't that bad of a film, although the English dubbing really doesn't do it any justice and the actual budget looks less than a McDonald's value meal. The two female leads are both very attractive so watching them nude half the running time doesn't hurt matters either.

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French horror director takes a break, 10 August 2007
4/10
Author: lastliberal from Florida

Jean Rollin (Caged Vampires, Queen of the Vampires, Zombie Lake) takes a break from the dead and directs an adventure of the living.

Two girls (Gilda Arancio & Joëlle Coeur) travel the countryside enjoying each others company and bodies and company of whomever they manage to hook up with.

They find a small-time mobster hiding in an abandoned house and have a night of fun before moving on. However, they manage to get caught up in some jewel theft and the mobster's bosses have him kidnap them thinking they stole the jewels.

This was just an excuse to begin torture and show some more breasts in this silly yarn that drags on and on until the real thief is uncovered.

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Tale of two girls, robbery and torture, 30 March 2008
4/10
Author: dbborroughs from Glen Cove, New York

Two young girls travel the country side and spend some time in a secluded and seemingly unoccupied house. When some people show up they get mixed up with some torture and stolen jewels.

Odd film seems to be a porno film with the sex cut out. Reasonably well acted with a good looking cast this is an off beat little "thriller" that isn't really much of anything. its not bad, but it isn't really worth bothering with on its own (I got this part of a 20 film DVD set and as part of that the film was worth trying but had I picked it up on its own I would have been rather upset) 4 out of 10. If you don't spend any money on it

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"The Indecent Girls That We Are", 20 September 2008
4/10
Author: Coventry from the Draconian Swamp of Unholy Souls

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Okay, first and foremost, there's something very wrong with the US-title of this thing. High School?? Hitch-Hikers??? The two leading ladies are way too old to still be in high school and – even more importantly – they never at one point during the movie stick up their thumbs to fetch a ride with someone! The original French title literally translates (as you could probably guess) as "Impudent Young Girls" but I presume even that wasn't sleazy enough for the American Grindhouse circuit. That being said, onwards with the actual movie review even though there isn't that much to write. This really feels like an adult movie with the adult bits cut out. Only a porn flick is allowed to have such a flimsy plot because there's the hardcore footage to compensate for it. But, of course, if you leave out the sex you're stuck with a nonsensical wraparound story. And that's exactly what "High School Hitch-Hikers" is: a silly wraparound story with sleaze and a lot of nudity, but no actual fornication. Two traveling and gorgeous young girls, one blond and one brunette, break into a seemingly abandoned mansion to spend the night, unaware it's the hideout place of a jewelery thief and his loot. They meet, have sex and when the girls leave again the next morning the thief notices his stolen jewels are missing. He and his dim-witted accomplices abduct the girls and submit them to "torture". However, the brunette escapes and turns to a private detective for help. Admittedly the basic plot description doesn't even sound so bad, but the elaboration is truly too inept and hilariously moronic to put into words. Here's a brief listing of my personal favorite aspect that don't make the slightest bit of sense: the kidnappers' idea of torturing the girls exists of cutting off their hair and – if that doesn't work – kidnapper number one (who looks a lot like Tom Savini) caresses their bodies and tenderly makes love to them! Oh, the cruelty! The mansion supposedly lies in a remote area, yet when the brunette escapes she reaches civilization and even a private detective before the others even notice she's gone. The private detective talks like Inspector Clouseau (or at least in the dubbed version he does) and does literally nothing useful. His idea of solving the mystery is to wait in the mansion and have breakfast. During the shootout outside the mansion, none of the four participants get hurt even though they don't bother looking for cover. At one point, one of the accomplices just runs away and doesn't return. Yup, "High School Hitch-Hikers" is an astonishingly bad movie but at the same time quite entertaining from a Grindhouse-experience point of view. The gals are incredibly hot and have exquisite bodies, the typical porn-flick soundtrack is catchy and all the stupidity is oddly relaxing to watch. Personally, I've never been a fan of Jean Rollin's acclaimed and supposedly cult-tastic lesbian vampire flicks, like "Lips of Blood", "The Living Dead Girl" or "Shiver of the Vampire". I prefer this movie because it's playful and unpretentious, whereas his usual movies are melancholic and wannabe artistic. At least films like "High School Hitch-Hikers" and the infamous "Zombie Lake" establish what Jean Rollin really is: a smutty Euro-trash director and NOT a visionary and gifted filmmaker.

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An enjoyably quick'n'painless piece of French soft-core crime thriller fluff, 21 August 2008
8/10
Author: Woodyanders (Woodyanders@aol.com) from The Last New Jersey Drive-In on the Left

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Assertive Monica (slim brunette fox Joelle Coeur) and her more passive gal pal Jackie (zaftig blonde looker Gilda Arancio) are a couple of nubile and attractive young drifters who stumble across a big and beautiful abandoned house in the middle of nowhere. The girls decide to crash for the night at this swanky abode. Things turn sour when the ladies run afoul of a trio of nasty no-count jewelry thieves lead by wicked, sadistic, yet alluring ice queen villainess Bea (smoldering raven-haired dish Marie Helene Regne). Prolific French horror director Jean Rollin relates the flimsy meandering story at a leaden pace, but thankfully crams more than enough tasty distaff nudity and sizzling soft-core sex to ensure that this flick remains luridly entertaining throughout. Moreover, we've got the inevitable obligatory steamy lesbian encounter, an ineptly staged shoot-out set to groovy early 70's prog-rock music, a decent catfight, and some mild moments of torture and degradation. Pierre Raph's alternately jaunty and jazzy score, the pretty rural countryside scenery, Jean-Jacques Renon's plain, unpolished cinematography, and the laughably atrocious dubbing all further enhance this trashy potboiler's considerable scroungy charm. Plus the short'n'sweet 67 minute running time ensures that this tawdry romp certainly never outstays its welcome. A nifty serving of diverting Eurosleaze.

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