{"id":6713,"date":"2024-10-25T10:21:54","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T14:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/?p=6713"},"modified":"2024-10-25T10:21:54","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T14:21:54","slug":"h-o-t-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/2024\/10\/25\/h-o-t-s\/","title":{"rendered":"H.O.T.S."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"H.O.T.S. <\/strong>(1979)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Great American Dream Machine Movie Company\/Comedy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 98 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (language, nudity, sexual content, raunchy humor)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Gerald Seth Sindell\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Cheri Caffaro and Joan Buchanan\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: David Davis\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Cinematography: Harvey Genkins\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: July 20, 1979 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Susan Kiger, Lisa London, Pamela Jean Bryant, Kimberly Cameron, Lindsay Bloom, K.C. Winkler, Sandy Johnson, Ken Olfson, Dick Bakalyan, Louis Guss, Mary Steelsmith, Angela Aames, Marjorie Andrade, Cece Bullard, Karen Smith, Robin Martin, Marilyn Rubin, Donald Petrie, Larry Gilman, Dan Reed, Danny Bonaduce, David Gibbs, Marvin Katzoff, Steve Bond, Talmadge Scott, Dorothy Meyer.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Box Office: $1.4M (US)<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: ****<\/p>\n

\u00a0The acronym H.O.T.S.<\/strong> could stand for a few different things, but I prefer to think it stands for \u201cH<\/strong>old O<\/strong>n T<\/strong>o S<\/strong>ex. It’s the most fitting one for this raunchy 1979 college comedy featuring three Playboy Playmates- Susan Kiger (January 1977), Pamela Bryant (April 1978) and Sandy Johnson (June 1974)- and a former Miss USA- Lindsay Bloom (1972)- in prominent roles. That small amount of information on its own should give you a clear idea of what kind of movie H.O.T.S.<\/strong> is. If you still don\u2019t know, think of the letters T and A. Get it, got it, good!<\/p>\n

\u00a0One of many cheap knock-offs that immediately followed Animal House, H.O.T.S. <\/strong>should be familiar to anybody- specifically, males- who came of age in the mid-80s. It played on Cinemax a lot in summer \u201984. It was a late night staple. I watched it every time it was on. What else would you expect from a horny 16YO virgin with no social life? I thought it was hilarious then. I don\u2019t know what it says about me that I still find it hilarious, but here we are. Besides, since when do I care about what others think of my taste in movies?<\/p>\n

\u00a0Set at fictional Fairenville University (aka F.U.), H.O.T.S.<\/strong> is another “slobs vs. snobs” college comedy, this time dealing with two rival sororities. Pi is the most exclusive sorority on campus meaning it\u2019s full of stuck-up bitches like the president Melody Ragmore (Bloom, Cover Girl Models). They turn away pledges by the dozens because they don’t measure up to their too-high standards. Some of these girls actually (GASP!) work at jobs to put themselves through school. Perish the thought! It\u2019s the reason Pi turns down Honey Shayne (Kiger, The Return), a nice girl unfairly ridiculed in public by Melody. Honey, along with fellow Pi rejects O\u2019Hara (London, The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood), Teri (Bryant, Don\u2019t Answer the Phone) and Sam (Cameron), decide to get even by forming their own sorority and stealing every man on campus. Hmmm, H<\/strong>oney, O<\/strong>\u2019Hara, T<\/strong>eri and S<\/strong>am. Do ya think? Speaking of acronyms, Melody tells her new pledges that Pi stands for P<\/strong>erfectly I<\/strong>deal G<\/strong>irls. Sounds about right to me.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0After fixing up a rundown old house and recruiting other Pi rejects, the girls of H.O.T.S. are ready to put Melody and her friends in their place. The usual hijinks ensue. Honey hooks up with Melody’s steady boyfriend Doug (Petrie, The Hearse). All the guys on campus, including campus stud Richie Walker (Bonaduce, The Partridge Family), college newspaper reporter Mad Dog (Gilman, The Yum Yum Girls), nerdy Big Boy (Katzoff, Hardbodies) and football star Macho Man (Gibbs), want to hang out with the H.O.T.S. It\u2019s obviously the fun place to be. Melody and her two cohorts, Cynthia (Winkler, Night Shift) and Stephanie (Johnson, Halloween), do everything they can to sabotage their rivals. Honey and her friends aren\u2019t the type of girls who give up without a fight. Thus, we witness a battle of wits and pranks that climaxes with a game of strip football between the two sororities.<\/p>\n

\u00a0No Animal House knock-off is complete without an uptight nemesis from the school’s administration. In this case, it’s Dean Larry Chase (Olfson, Breakin\u2019 2: Electric Boogaloo), a mean sort who would like nothing better than to shut down H.O.T.S. and put a stop to their fun.<\/p>\n

The movie’s other highlights include a topless skydiver jumping from a hot air balloon, a wet T-shirt contest, a jock strap raid, a super successful kissing booth and an illegal moonshine still in the attic. Of course, they have a sassy black middle-aged house mother (Meyer, Roller Boogie). Their house mascot is a seal for H<\/strong>elp O<\/strong>ut T<\/strong>he S<\/strong>eals. That\u2019s what they tell the dean anyway. There’s even a bear running loose in the house. A subplot has two bumbling gangsters, Charles (Bakalyan, Chinatown) and Bugs Benny (Guss), trying to gain entry to the house in order to find the stolen loot their late partner hid there years earlier.<\/p>\n

\u00a0As you can see, H.O.T.S.<\/strong> is your typical late 70s college comedy. It has generous amounts of nudity and sexual humor. The two idiotic gangsters are a nice touch. There’s a scene where they try to infiltrate the sorority house disguised as a sales rep offering a free demonstration of a robot that does housework. Like all their schemes, it goes disastrously. It\u2019s dumb but funny. H.O.T.S.<\/strong> has plenty of this sort of humor in addition to the R-rated T&A comedy material. At the same time, it\u2019s a surprisingly pleasant and good-natured viewing experience.<\/p>\n

\u00a0There’s no point in talking about the performances in H.O.T.S<\/strong>. It\u2019s probably the last thing that was on anybody\u2019s mind during production. It contains all the usual character types found in college comedies. Nobody\u2019s IQ is higher than it needs to be. The girls of H.O.T.S. are totally HOT! Even the heavyset girl Clutz (Steelsmith, Rabbit Test) looks good. Once they get their act together, they\u2019re the most popular girls at good old F.U. It\u2019s cool seeing Bonaduce between his child star and shock jock phases. His character becomes the butt of a joke involving a large dose of salt peter in a bowl of chili. If nothing else, H.O.T.S<\/strong>. is funny. As I\u2019ve indicated throughout this review, the acronym H.O.T.S. is a running joke. In addition to what I already told you, it’s suggested that it might also stand for H<\/strong>ands O<\/strong>ff T<\/strong>hose S<\/strong>uckers and H<\/strong>ung O<\/strong>utrageously T<\/strong>o S<\/strong>core.<\/p>\n

\u00a0H.O.T.S<\/strong>. is one of the better Animal House rip offs. Director Gerald Seth Sindell knows exactly what he\u2019s going for and makes no apologies for it. I miss the days when teen T&A movies like H.O.T.S<\/strong>. came out on a regular basis. It’s always fun to watch one of these dirty-minded comedies from the late 70s and early 80s. Sure, they\u2019re low-class, low-budget and lowbrow, but isn\u2019t that kind of the point? In its defense, H.O.T.S<\/strong>. is consistent in always going for the cheap laughs. I don\u2019t mind it in this case because it\u2019s so good-natured about it. It isn\u2019t mean-spirited at any point. That\u2019s a quality sorely missing in too many of today\u2019s so-called comedies. I\u2019ll take H.O.T.S<\/strong>. over anything Judd Apatow has to offer any day.<\/p>\n

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H.O.T.S. (1979)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Great American Dream Machine Movie Company\/Comedy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 98 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (language, nudity, sexual content, raunchy humor)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Gerald Seth Sindell\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Cheri Caffaro and Joan Buchanan\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: David Davis\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Cinematography: Harvey Genkins\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: July 20, 1979 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Susan Kiger, Lisa London, Pamela Jean Bryant, Kimberly Cameron, Lindsay Bloom, K.C. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7070,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-b-movies","category-comedies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/HOTS-PIC.jpg?fit=620%2C348&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6713"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7072,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6713\/revisions\/7072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}