Mix old-time Burlesque, "jiggle" TV and the basic plot of "Animal House", and you've pretty much summed up this example of "B" movies at the time Reagan became President. Of all the "Animal House" imitators, "H.O.T.S." is probably the best. Don't watch it for great acting, writing or directing, but don't expect to spend a lot of time with your finger on the "Fast Forward" button either. If all you've seen is the USA edit, you've missed what is the essence of the film - beautiful topless women. It's not so much sexploitation as it is an update of the kind of show Grandpa saw in the big city when Grandma wasn't along. Not only the light, breezy attitude toward nudity, but the jokes, the pies, the seltzer, the animal acts - even two baggy-pants comics.
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Let's hear it for Vestron Video!!
Anonymous_Maxine4 July 2003
You know, I really have a problem with movie lists. I was reading Maxim magazine a while ago and they had a list of the 50 Greatest B-Movies of all time, and knowing me, I of course have to go through and watch them all and write reviews of all of them. This is why you see reviews of movies like Gator Bait and Barb Wire and Coffy on my list. So I noticed H.O.T.S. at the video store the other day and recognized it from Maxim's list of the 50 greatest B-movies, and I decided to rent it and check it out. My only consolation is that I rented it because I recognized it from a list of B-movies, so I already knew it was going to suck.
Given the type of movie that it is, I can't say that H.O.T.S. is a total failure, since it is nothing more than a late 70s T&A film, and it never pretends to by anything else. The only place where it strays widely from its objective is in a ragged subplot involving a couple of ex-cons who have stashed a lot of stolen money in the house that the self-named H.O.T.S. move in to, because this subplot has absolutely no place in the movie. Despite the fact that the rest of the movie is as well, this subplot is completely superfluous and unnecessary.
The story is based on a couple of rival sororities at the beloved F.U., which exists as one of those Universities that contains a grand total of one sorority until the rejects form their own in order to get back at the snobs in the other one. This new sorority, Help Out The Seals (H.O.T.S.), is a sorority supposedly based on helping seals (the seal subplot is another one that doesn't really belong in the movie, and little attention is paid to the meaning of that name beyond having a seal running around here and there throughout the movie).
This is going to sound weird, but there was actually one scene that I was pretty impressed with in this movie. One SHOT that I was impressed with, I should say. About midway through the movie, one of the girls in Pi, the rival sorority, is pouring alcohol into the punch, and she pours some for herself in a glass and drinks it. Oddly enough, what she does as she drinks that alcohol reminds me of something that Charlie Chaplin would do, which really brightened up the movie. Obviously, nothing in this movie comes close to anything that Chaplin ever did, but that shot alone raised my score for the movie from a 2 to a 4.
As a whole, however, the movie is exactly what you would expect it to be, a lot of people running around looking for excuses to take off their clothes (I liked how the remove-one-piece-of-clothing-for-every-score in the football game at the end was one of the GIRLS' ideas. Riiiiiiiiight ), and not much thought is put into much of anything else. There is, for example, a scene early in the film when a couple of the Pi girls pour hot sauce into the refreshments at a H.O.T.S. party, accidentally getting caught in an incriminating photograph (the girl taking the picture didn't realize that she photographed them at the time), although the photograph never comes up for any reason later in the film.
I've seen movies like this before, it's kind of like Gator Bait but without the violence and the rednecks and Coffy wasn't far off. Even Barb Wire is much the same, just with a bigger budget and more silicon. Thankfully, Maxim's 50 B-movie list contains only a few more comedies, because while these cheesy teen T&A films are entertaining every once in a while as bad movies with the occasional semi-nude scene, after watching H.O.T.S. I think I've decided that I like the bad horror movies better than the bad comedies. I'd rather watch a lot of terrible actors pretend to be scared than pretend to be funny.
Given the type of movie that it is, I can't say that H.O.T.S. is a total failure, since it is nothing more than a late 70s T&A film, and it never pretends to by anything else. The only place where it strays widely from its objective is in a ragged subplot involving a couple of ex-cons who have stashed a lot of stolen money in the house that the self-named H.O.T.S. move in to, because this subplot has absolutely no place in the movie. Despite the fact that the rest of the movie is as well, this subplot is completely superfluous and unnecessary.
The story is based on a couple of rival sororities at the beloved F.U., which exists as one of those Universities that contains a grand total of one sorority until the rejects form their own in order to get back at the snobs in the other one. This new sorority, Help Out The Seals (H.O.T.S.), is a sorority supposedly based on helping seals (the seal subplot is another one that doesn't really belong in the movie, and little attention is paid to the meaning of that name beyond having a seal running around here and there throughout the movie).
This is going to sound weird, but there was actually one scene that I was pretty impressed with in this movie. One SHOT that I was impressed with, I should say. About midway through the movie, one of the girls in Pi, the rival sorority, is pouring alcohol into the punch, and she pours some for herself in a glass and drinks it. Oddly enough, what she does as she drinks that alcohol reminds me of something that Charlie Chaplin would do, which really brightened up the movie. Obviously, nothing in this movie comes close to anything that Chaplin ever did, but that shot alone raised my score for the movie from a 2 to a 4.
As a whole, however, the movie is exactly what you would expect it to be, a lot of people running around looking for excuses to take off their clothes (I liked how the remove-one-piece-of-clothing-for-every-score in the football game at the end was one of the GIRLS' ideas. Riiiiiiiiight ), and not much thought is put into much of anything else. There is, for example, a scene early in the film when a couple of the Pi girls pour hot sauce into the refreshments at a H.O.T.S. party, accidentally getting caught in an incriminating photograph (the girl taking the picture didn't realize that she photographed them at the time), although the photograph never comes up for any reason later in the film.
I've seen movies like this before, it's kind of like Gator Bait but without the violence and the rednecks and Coffy wasn't far off. Even Barb Wire is much the same, just with a bigger budget and more silicon. Thankfully, Maxim's 50 B-movie list contains only a few more comedies, because while these cheesy teen T&A films are entertaining every once in a while as bad movies with the occasional semi-nude scene, after watching H.O.T.S. I think I've decided that I like the bad horror movies better than the bad comedies. I'd rather watch a lot of terrible actors pretend to be scared than pretend to be funny.
Inept sexploitation romp with lots of nudity depicted badly
Groverdox9 September 2019
"H.O.T.S." is an unashamedly exploitative sex comedy flick that followed hot on the heels of "National Lampoon's Animal House", a box-office smash in the late '70s. It was also possibly inspired by all those "Swinging Cheerleaders" movies, which were basically pornographic. It was scripted, surprisingly, by two women.
The plot concerns a group of girls who are blackballed from a snooty sorority, and thus decide to start their own, named "H.O.T.S." after the first initial of each girl. They decide to use their feminine attributes to steal the boyfriends on the rival sorority. Perhaps its most famous scenes are publicity stunts the H.O.T.S. girls pull: a topless parachute jump and a game of strip football.
Of course there is a bizarre subplot about hired goons doing god-knows-what. I wasn't really able to follow these scenes. One of them involves a bear in the swimming pool. The girls also get a seal on a chain somehow, and claim that the name of their sorority stands for "Help Out the Seals".
The girls have a jock strap raid at a frat house, which features a lot of young men wandering around semi naked.
One of the H.O.T.S. girls is kidnapped and bound and gagged. They shave her hair off.
Some random guy appears to have a skull shaped like a cone? I didn't understand that part. It's a bizarre sight.
There is also an ugly fat girl in the movie, and I'm not sure what she was there for.
The movie "climaxes" in the aforementioned strip-football game. The girls play in bikinis, and take their tops off eventually. The movie completely fails to build suspense for this supposedly climactic moment, and films the game ineptly - but who cares about that, right? You want nudity. You get it... sort of. The movie's inept direction doesn't take advantage of so many topless girls by giving you a good look. In fact, the whole movie is a bit like that. The nudity seems incidental, whereas to the people watching the movie, it's anything but - it's the whole reason you watched it in the first place.
The plot concerns a group of girls who are blackballed from a snooty sorority, and thus decide to start their own, named "H.O.T.S." after the first initial of each girl. They decide to use their feminine attributes to steal the boyfriends on the rival sorority. Perhaps its most famous scenes are publicity stunts the H.O.T.S. girls pull: a topless parachute jump and a game of strip football.
Of course there is a bizarre subplot about hired goons doing god-knows-what. I wasn't really able to follow these scenes. One of them involves a bear in the swimming pool. The girls also get a seal on a chain somehow, and claim that the name of their sorority stands for "Help Out the Seals".
The girls have a jock strap raid at a frat house, which features a lot of young men wandering around semi naked.
One of the H.O.T.S. girls is kidnapped and bound and gagged. They shave her hair off.
Some random guy appears to have a skull shaped like a cone? I didn't understand that part. It's a bizarre sight.
There is also an ugly fat girl in the movie, and I'm not sure what she was there for.
The movie "climaxes" in the aforementioned strip-football game. The girls play in bikinis, and take their tops off eventually. The movie completely fails to build suspense for this supposedly climactic moment, and films the game ineptly - but who cares about that, right? You want nudity. You get it... sort of. The movie's inept direction doesn't take advantage of so many topless girls by giving you a good look. In fact, the whole movie is a bit like that. The nudity seems incidental, whereas to the people watching the movie, it's anything but - it's the whole reason you watched it in the first place.
Eye Candy Hall of Fame classic
Robbie-4326 August 1999
This film is a throwback to the pre-siliconized days of Hollywood. We here at the academy admire the blossoming of natural talent as it explodes onto the screen. The film centers around the exploits of a bevy of buxom beauty outcasts (Susan Kiger, Pamela Jean Bryant, Kimberly Cameron, Lisa London, Angela Aames) as they form a sorority. Their nemesis is the snobby sorority with its buxom beauties (Lindsay Bloom, K.C. Winkler). College hijinks prevail as the film brings forth the truth about typical sorority behavior: showering, topless sunbathing, topless skydiving, wet T-shirt contests, outsmarting the pesky dean, and strip football. That's right, strip football: score a TD and the opposing team loses an article of clothing. This definitely is an Eye Candy Hall of Fame moment and causes us to reflect that they don't make movies like this anymore. As football fans it pains us to actually hope for a weak pass rush and lapses in the secondary coverage for both teams. Fire up the grill, open a beer, and enjoy the game.
A comedy should have jokes and a plot.
dave13-115 January 2012
About the most useless movie entertainment I can imagine is a comedy constructed in the form of a soft-core sex film, except without the sex. Or the comedy. That pretty much describes H.O.T.S. From its M*A*S*H* wannabe title to its wannabe actress Playmate cast, there just isn't much here to like. The girls are attractive, but all of them have just barely enough screen presence and acting chops to make it as porn stars, and this isn't porn, more is the pity. There are lingerie and bikini shots aplenty here but other than a topless touch football game about 90 minutes in, very little nudity or soft-core sex, despite the obvious come-ons in the box copy. If it were any tamer, it could be a made-for-TV movie. As a sex film it's a big tease with no happy ending, and as a comedy it simply has nothing to sell. The dialogue is leaden, and there is no hint of cleverness anywhere. Its construction is a simple string of vaguely related scenes that head toward resolutions that are obvious five minutes in and dull when they finally occur. The physical comedy is directed with no sense of timing and performed by people who have no flair for slapstick, and it all just falls flat and leaves you wondering what is the point of it all. The whole thing is handled with such careless incompetence that it makes REVENGE OF THE NERDS look like Noel Coward. Don't be fooled by what's on the DVD box.
Revisited after 30 years
Blue-5911 July 2010
I saw this picture when it was released 30 years ago, mainly because of the topless football game. I enjoyed it back then, but seeing it again on Netflix TV after three decades was a disappointment. Not that the movie doesn't have its positives: (1) high-quality cinematography, lighting, editing, and photography; (2) beautiful, often topless, babes; and (3) a couple of recognizable (real) actors from the past (Dick Bakalyan and Louis Guss as the gangsters).
That being said, the flick went overboard trying to be "zany," cramming into practically every scene some sort of tired, infantile gag that draws winces instead of chuckles. Further, beneath the ostensible light, good-natured goings-on, with everybody supposedly having such a great time acting crazy or simply being weird, runs a subliminal hostility and meanness that progressively depresses the viewer. Ha, ha. Isn't the fat girl funny, especially when she outweighs her nerdy boyfriend by 200 pounds? What a riot! Ha, ha. The opera singer bellows off-key and then falls into the pool! How original! Whoever thought of that? Brilliant stroke of comedy! As bright and cheerful as H.O.T.S. makes itself out to be, it's actually kind of repulsive.
As one reviewer noted years ago, H.O.T.S. is one of those movies better watched with the sound off. The outstanding beauty of (my personal choices, in order) Kimberly Cameron, K.C. Winkler, Sandy Johnson, and Lisa London shouldn't be marred by idiotic dialogue.
Five stars: ten for the feminine beauty and the vintage actors, zero for everything else.
That being said, the flick went overboard trying to be "zany," cramming into practically every scene some sort of tired, infantile gag that draws winces instead of chuckles. Further, beneath the ostensible light, good-natured goings-on, with everybody supposedly having such a great time acting crazy or simply being weird, runs a subliminal hostility and meanness that progressively depresses the viewer. Ha, ha. Isn't the fat girl funny, especially when she outweighs her nerdy boyfriend by 200 pounds? What a riot! Ha, ha. The opera singer bellows off-key and then falls into the pool! How original! Whoever thought of that? Brilliant stroke of comedy! As bright and cheerful as H.O.T.S. makes itself out to be, it's actually kind of repulsive.
As one reviewer noted years ago, H.O.T.S. is one of those movies better watched with the sound off. The outstanding beauty of (my personal choices, in order) Kimberly Cameron, K.C. Winkler, Sandy Johnson, and Lisa London shouldn't be marred by idiotic dialogue.
Five stars: ten for the feminine beauty and the vintage actors, zero for everything else.
Hands Off Those Suckers
utgard141 November 2016
Sex comedy about a rivalry between two sororities with some nice T&A but not very funny. Just an excuse for chestacular young women (including a few former Playboy Playmates) to run around, sometimes naked but mostly in tight T-shirts with no bra on. If you're a fan of watching braless babes bouncing all over the place, this is the movie for you. Strip football game is the climax of the film, in more ways than one. Danny Bonaduce is also in this, acting like a ginger Scott Baio who thinks he's hot stuff. Lots of cruddy songs, as well. Worth seeing for the boobs and for being a time capsule of the late '70s/early '80s. Beyond that it isn't a good movie and whatever cheesy appeal it has wears off fairly quickly.
Danny Bonaduce and the Playmates.
BlackJack_B1 January 2020
H.O.T.S. is your typical Drive-In Classic featuring lots of exposed bosoms and little else. If you're a fan of The Asylum's nudie films then H.O.T.S. will be right up your alley. The only difference is that the film's dialog isn't as raunchy as Barely Legal or Celebrity Sex Tape but it's pretty tepid.
A group of ladies spurned by the uptight and egotistical PI sorority form their own group called H.O.T.S. with the goal of stealing the PI's boyfriends and humiliating them any way they can. There's also a subplot with two escaped thugs attempting to break into the H.O.T.S. sorority house to get the stolen loot they hid before they were incarcerated.
Danny Bonaduce is Richie Walker, an obnoxious, sexist and full-of-himself wannabe "musician" and ladies-man turned touch football commentator who tries to bed these ladies with "hilarious" results.
There's not much humor in this sophomoric comedy except for the scene where the thugs play salesmen promoting a robot who can clean the girl's home. When Bugs Benny gets too close to the ladies he gets all steamed up and out of control. Reminded me of that old Bugs BUNNY short where he outsmarts Elmer Fudd's robot. I laughed at that scene.
The cast is full of attractive Playboy Playmates but there's nothing that makes most of them stand out from each other. The only one who does stand out is Mary Steelsmith's Clutz, for obvious reasons. Basically, they have one thing on their mind: FUN!
If you've watched every other nudie film and want something less raunchy then this one is OK. At least everybody seems to have no silicone, which is a positive.
A group of ladies spurned by the uptight and egotistical PI sorority form their own group called H.O.T.S. with the goal of stealing the PI's boyfriends and humiliating them any way they can. There's also a subplot with two escaped thugs attempting to break into the H.O.T.S. sorority house to get the stolen loot they hid before they were incarcerated.
Danny Bonaduce is Richie Walker, an obnoxious, sexist and full-of-himself wannabe "musician" and ladies-man turned touch football commentator who tries to bed these ladies with "hilarious" results.
There's not much humor in this sophomoric comedy except for the scene where the thugs play salesmen promoting a robot who can clean the girl's home. When Bugs Benny gets too close to the ladies he gets all steamed up and out of control. Reminded me of that old Bugs BUNNY short where he outsmarts Elmer Fudd's robot. I laughed at that scene.
The cast is full of attractive Playboy Playmates but there's nothing that makes most of them stand out from each other. The only one who does stand out is Mary Steelsmith's Clutz, for obvious reasons. Basically, they have one thing on their mind: FUN!
If you've watched every other nudie film and want something less raunchy then this one is OK. At least everybody seems to have no silicone, which is a positive.
USA Up All Night
BandSAboutMovies7 September 2023
Warning: Spoilers
Oney Shayne (Susan Kiger, Playboy Playmate of the Month for January 1977; Angels Revenge, Galaxina, Death Screams), O'Hara (Lisa London, Savage Beach), Teri Lynn (Pamela Bryant, Playboy Playmate of the Month for April 1978; Don't Answer the Phone) and Sam (Kimberly Cameron,) have come together to start the H. O. T. S. after Honey fails to pledge the Pi sorority and is publicly ridiculed by its president Melody Ragmore (Lindsay Bloom, a former Miss Utah who was in Sixpack Annie, The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood and Terror At London Bridge). Their goal? Steal all the Pi girls' boys.
Oh Fairenville University. God old F. U. This is the kind of school where pranks happen all day long, where there are kissing booths, where public strip football is attended by a huge crowd. Is it any wonder why college for real would disappoint so many of us raised on movies like this? And we had to pay for it for the rest of our lives?
At one point, Melody Ragmore says, "Everyone knows what H. O. T. S. stands for, and it's disgusting!" What does it mean? Well, it could stand for Hands Off Those Suckers. Or Help Out The Seals. Maybe Hold On To Sex. But it really is the first names of the four main girls.
This is a movie where someone is naked - well, someone female, come on - every scene while two old criminals (Dick Bakalyan and Louis Guss) are digging through the house for stolen money. The plot is so thin but then again, it also has a scene with a naked parachute girl - Boom-Boom Bangs (Angela Aames, Bo Peep in Fairy Tales; she's also in Chopping Mall and Bachelor Party) - skydiving into the pool of the dean while an unfortunate opera singer (Bunny Summers, Mrs. Boone from The Last Starfighter) is performing, a moment that made me stare at the screen and forget work and life and the crushing ennui of trying to make it in the midst of crushing disappointment. Thanks, H. O. T. S.!
The cast also includes Mary Steelsmith as the too large for most sororities Clutz (she's also in Death Valley and Weird Science); Marjorie Andrade; Karen Smith (Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, X-Ray, Freaky Friday); K. C. Winkler (The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood - a movie that has a lot of the same actresses as this movie - and Armed and Dangerous); Sandy Johnson as Stephanie (she started posing nude to pay for her father's cancer bill; you probably know her best as Judith Myers; she's also in Jokes My Folks Never Told Me, Surfer Girls and Gas Pump Girls); Donald Petrie (who would go on to direct Mystic Pizza, Welcome to Mooseport, Miss Congeniality and How To Lose a Guy In 10 Days); Larry Gillman (Final Destination); Danny Bonaduce, who of course gets to sing; Marvin Katzoff (who played a geek in Hardbodies and Delta Pi; he's also in Lovely but Deadly); Steve Bond (Massacre At Central High, Gas Pump Girls); Tallmadge Scott (who fought Jackie Chan in Battle Creek Brawl and was a zombie in Shock Waves); Slinky the seal and Sugar Bear as the bear Honey Bear.
This was directed by Gerald Seth Sindell, who also made the way better than it should be film Teenager. It was written by producer W. Terry Davis, Joan Buchanan and associate producer Cheri Caffaro. If her name sounds familiar, that's because she's Ginger McAllister from Ginger, The Abductors and Girls Are For Loving. She was also in Savage Sisters and Too Hot to Handle. So yes, this may be a basic T&A movie, but it made money for the woman who wrote and produced it.
Oh Fairenville University. God old F. U. This is the kind of school where pranks happen all day long, where there are kissing booths, where public strip football is attended by a huge crowd. Is it any wonder why college for real would disappoint so many of us raised on movies like this? And we had to pay for it for the rest of our lives?
At one point, Melody Ragmore says, "Everyone knows what H. O. T. S. stands for, and it's disgusting!" What does it mean? Well, it could stand for Hands Off Those Suckers. Or Help Out The Seals. Maybe Hold On To Sex. But it really is the first names of the four main girls.
This is a movie where someone is naked - well, someone female, come on - every scene while two old criminals (Dick Bakalyan and Louis Guss) are digging through the house for stolen money. The plot is so thin but then again, it also has a scene with a naked parachute girl - Boom-Boom Bangs (Angela Aames, Bo Peep in Fairy Tales; she's also in Chopping Mall and Bachelor Party) - skydiving into the pool of the dean while an unfortunate opera singer (Bunny Summers, Mrs. Boone from The Last Starfighter) is performing, a moment that made me stare at the screen and forget work and life and the crushing ennui of trying to make it in the midst of crushing disappointment. Thanks, H. O. T. S.!
The cast also includes Mary Steelsmith as the too large for most sororities Clutz (she's also in Death Valley and Weird Science); Marjorie Andrade; Karen Smith (Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, X-Ray, Freaky Friday); K. C. Winkler (The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood - a movie that has a lot of the same actresses as this movie - and Armed and Dangerous); Sandy Johnson as Stephanie (she started posing nude to pay for her father's cancer bill; you probably know her best as Judith Myers; she's also in Jokes My Folks Never Told Me, Surfer Girls and Gas Pump Girls); Donald Petrie (who would go on to direct Mystic Pizza, Welcome to Mooseport, Miss Congeniality and How To Lose a Guy In 10 Days); Larry Gillman (Final Destination); Danny Bonaduce, who of course gets to sing; Marvin Katzoff (who played a geek in Hardbodies and Delta Pi; he's also in Lovely but Deadly); Steve Bond (Massacre At Central High, Gas Pump Girls); Tallmadge Scott (who fought Jackie Chan in Battle Creek Brawl and was a zombie in Shock Waves); Slinky the seal and Sugar Bear as the bear Honey Bear.
This was directed by Gerald Seth Sindell, who also made the way better than it should be film Teenager. It was written by producer W. Terry Davis, Joan Buchanan and associate producer Cheri Caffaro. If her name sounds familiar, that's because she's Ginger McAllister from Ginger, The Abductors and Girls Are For Loving. She was also in Savage Sisters and Too Hot to Handle. So yes, this may be a basic T&A movie, but it made money for the woman who wrote and produced it.
Plenty of T not enough A
david_grills4 January 2005
If you watched this film for the nudity (as I did) you won't be disappointed. I could have done without the bumbling crooks or the bear though. Some bottomless nudity could have be shown but for what it was I think H.O.T.S. has to be the best of its genre.
It is not the sort of film that could have been made today which is a pity because it is the sort of film that is worth watching in these times.
I would take mindless nudity over pivotal plot points any day.
It is a shame that the DVD doesn't have any extras but as they didn't have DVDs when this was filmed that is understandable. I would have like to know more about the shooting of the film especially where they shot the football match at the end.
It is not the sort of film that could have been made today which is a pity because it is the sort of film that is worth watching in these times.
I would take mindless nudity over pivotal plot points any day.
It is a shame that the DVD doesn't have any extras but as they didn't have DVDs when this was filmed that is understandable. I would have like to know more about the shooting of the film especially where they shot the football match at the end.
HOTS typifies genre perfectly
SmokinTacos26 May 2008
I agree that this film achieved its goals perfectly. I saw it on Showtime late at night as a teenager, and again in college. I thought it was funny. And there are boobs everywhere! It seems like in the late 70s and 80s there were loads of this type of film made, from R-rated films like "Porkys" to soft-core "Au Pair Girls"; it's a shame they seem to have fallen by the wayside in terms of popularity. The thing that made HOTS great was that, like the previous two films, it's a hell of a lot of fun. HOTS is like a girl-power version of "Animal House", with the girls forming a sorority of sorts and engaging in campus bedlam. On a side note, whoever designed the "Hooters" girls outfits must certainly have seen this film.
A fun, almost innocent glimpse at erotica past.
bill51125 September 2000
H.O.T.S. is a fun film for a trip back to when skin flicks had a more positive fun-filled agenda. They were made simply to titillate and have a few laughs. Everything seems less cynical and jaded. The girls all have natural figures and some are Playboy playmates. The simple plot deals with a group of young women who open a non-sanctioned sorority house to get back at the snooty sorority girls who spurned and insulted them. Instead of the mean spirited tricks of today, most of the hijinks are simply innocent fun. The women are decent actresses for this genre and are mostly very attractive. To keep our attention between the topless scenes, we have mafia henchmen, a stolen bear, a hot air balloon, a funky house mother, and the cheapest robot ever seen. There's even Danny Bonnaducci of the Partridge Family. If you have a sense of humor then let yourself go and enjoy some light entertainment.
animal house meets hooters
vampi196025 August 2006
h.o.t.s. is one of those sexy 70's drive in movies that features many of playboys famous playmates from the 70's like sexy tall blonde Susan kiger,Pamela jean Bryant,Lisa London,kc winkler and the late sexy Angela Ames.and would you believe a post partridge family Danny bonaduce?its the snobby girls verses the good girls(the hots girls)led by Susan kiger.there's a couple of comedy relief gangsters,a runaway bear,a trained seal,misplaced bras,etc;etc;think animal house meets hooters.h.o.t.s. is an enjoyable little comedy with t& a no complaints here.i actually think that Susan kiger was one of playboys sexiest playmates from the 70's.she did do a few more movies including deathscreams.if you like fun drive in movies you will no doubt enjoy h.o.t.s. 7 out of 10
Drive In Hall of Fame
Ken S.30 April 2003
I saw this several years ago on the Playboy channel. It featured a few Playmates (Kiger & Bryant--an Indianapolis native), a future T.V. sidekick of Mike Hammer (Bloom) and a has-been child star (Bonaduce) all frolicking in the highjinks of college.
Throw in a Hattie McDaniel/Lillian Randolph type maid for comedy relief, lots of boobies and some strip football and you have all the makings of a classic drive-in movie. H.O.T.S. was made after the success of National Lampoon's Animal House, and in some ways was better--more or less because of the girlies. While the plots not memorable (poor girls getting even with rich vixens) it does have its classic moments like the pie fight from a hot-air balloon, nude skydiving--performed wonderfully by the late Angela Aames, the real life bear scenes and the strip football game.
Not a movie to watch with your wife/girlfriend/concubine/lover, but instead one to watch with a buddy or several guys over a six-pack, pizza and snacks.
Throw in a Hattie McDaniel/Lillian Randolph type maid for comedy relief, lots of boobies and some strip football and you have all the makings of a classic drive-in movie. H.O.T.S. was made after the success of National Lampoon's Animal House, and in some ways was better--more or less because of the girlies. While the plots not memorable (poor girls getting even with rich vixens) it does have its classic moments like the pie fight from a hot-air balloon, nude skydiving--performed wonderfully by the late Angela Aames, the real life bear scenes and the strip football game.
Not a movie to watch with your wife/girlfriend/concubine/lover, but instead one to watch with a buddy or several guys over a six-pack, pizza and snacks.
h.o.t.s.
Scarecrow-8823 September 2009
Warning: Spoilers
Look, it's simple. I knew what I was seeking after when I decided on renting H.O.T.S. and got exactly what I hoped for. I can't imagine what a person would hope to get out of the movie besides what the cover and synopsis spell out quite loudly.
The mistreated and downtrodden college girls at FU University(..ha ha), picked on by the rich gals at the local sorority, decide to form their own little club, repairing a bedraggled and unkempt house, naming themselves H.O.T.S.(each letter named after the founding girls' last names). This is where the two dueling sisterhoods battle for supremacy over the university jocks, initiating pranks and other humiliating methods against each other. The final showdown will be a striptease tag football game where once and for all the ultimate winner will be determined.
You get plenty of the usual familiar traits which accompany these kind of sex comedies, including plentiful nudity, tons of (less than subtle)sexual innuendo, sophomoric humor, the wet T-shirt contest, a cat fight, animal mascots, shenanigans involving the faculty, among other things. I've read that H.O.T.S. basically follows(..or is inspired by)National Lampoon's Animal House, but it's more in line with something like The Cheerleaders, basically young adults living it up like there's no tomorrow, all smiles as beautiful boys and girls hook up, engaging in lasciviousness and immorality. Those at HOTS will do whatever it takes to make the grade and embarrass their rivals by any means possible.
You have bumbling mafioso escape convicts attempting to recover their loot inside the attic of the HOTS' house, antics involving a hot air balloon, a kidnapped mascot bear who goes free invading the sorority's headquarters, a "pleasantly plump" member of HOTS and her nerdy boyfriend, and Danny Bonaduce. You'd think Bonaduce would just have a glorified cameo, but his role is actually more extensive..he has his own band, is often the butt of a number of cruel(..but hilarious)jokes(..including a special smackerooni at a kissing booth, and a practical sex joke involving the HOTS' mascot seal) and there's some poking fun at his member.
Perfectly grating soundtrack and numerous Playboy bunnies, their breasts exposed for our viewing pleasure. Striking similarities to Revenge of the Nerds in some respects.
The mistreated and downtrodden college girls at FU University(..ha ha), picked on by the rich gals at the local sorority, decide to form their own little club, repairing a bedraggled and unkempt house, naming themselves H.O.T.S.(each letter named after the founding girls' last names). This is where the two dueling sisterhoods battle for supremacy over the university jocks, initiating pranks and other humiliating methods against each other. The final showdown will be a striptease tag football game where once and for all the ultimate winner will be determined.
You get plenty of the usual familiar traits which accompany these kind of sex comedies, including plentiful nudity, tons of (less than subtle)sexual innuendo, sophomoric humor, the wet T-shirt contest, a cat fight, animal mascots, shenanigans involving the faculty, among other things. I've read that H.O.T.S. basically follows(..or is inspired by)National Lampoon's Animal House, but it's more in line with something like The Cheerleaders, basically young adults living it up like there's no tomorrow, all smiles as beautiful boys and girls hook up, engaging in lasciviousness and immorality. Those at HOTS will do whatever it takes to make the grade and embarrass their rivals by any means possible.
You have bumbling mafioso escape convicts attempting to recover their loot inside the attic of the HOTS' house, antics involving a hot air balloon, a kidnapped mascot bear who goes free invading the sorority's headquarters, a "pleasantly plump" member of HOTS and her nerdy boyfriend, and Danny Bonaduce. You'd think Bonaduce would just have a glorified cameo, but his role is actually more extensive..he has his own band, is often the butt of a number of cruel(..but hilarious)jokes(..including a special smackerooni at a kissing booth, and a practical sex joke involving the HOTS' mascot seal) and there's some poking fun at his member.
Perfectly grating soundtrack and numerous Playboy bunnies, their breasts exposed for our viewing pleasure. Striking similarities to Revenge of the Nerds in some respects.
The Citizen Kane of 70's T&A films!!!!
peachesrox26 January 2002
Topless touch football!! A wet t-shirt contest!! A jockstrap raid!! This "SheAnimal House" has it all. Except a plot and good actors. The film consists of several pranks and catfights between the H.O.T.S. girls and the bitchy PI house. The dialouge is a scream and the soundtrack is sublimely brilliant. Over the past couple of months it's been popping up all over cable, so do yourself a favor and watch out for it. H.O.T.S. is so bad it's good!
Somewhat Fun But Very "Light" Goofy College Sex Film...
EVOL66614 October 2006
Warning: Spoilers
H.O.T.S. is not for those that want hardcore porn. Instead, this film is a precursor to many 80s era cult-classic college/frat films like REVENGE OF THE NERDS and PORKY'S and a post-cursor to the world-renown ANIMAL HOUSE. A good time if you dig a lot of big-titted 70s/80s Playboy type chicks and cheezy slap-dick comedy - but nothing too notable if you wanna use it as whack-material...
H.O.T.S. is an "unauthorized" sorority of sexy outcasts doing battle against the popular and trendy Pi girls. This one has pranks, an Aunt Jemima-ish house keeper, and even an over-heated robot that makes it relatively fun viewing if boobies are your "thing"...
Well...I like tits as much (or probably more...) as the next guy - but with all the sleazy sh!t that I've seen, I couldn't help but wish for a few hardcore scenes to make this one truly worthwhile. I knew it wouldn't happen, but I still wish that H.O.T.S. had a bit more sex and a bit less cheeze. Not quite as notable as NERDS, PORKY'S, or ANIMAL HOUSE, but worth a look for fans of those types of films...7/10
P.S... and I forgot - this one has consummate douche-rag Danny Bonaduce in probably the best role of his career outside of his "reality show"...
H.O.T.S. is an "unauthorized" sorority of sexy outcasts doing battle against the popular and trendy Pi girls. This one has pranks, an Aunt Jemima-ish house keeper, and even an over-heated robot that makes it relatively fun viewing if boobies are your "thing"...
Well...I like tits as much (or probably more...) as the next guy - but with all the sleazy sh!t that I've seen, I couldn't help but wish for a few hardcore scenes to make this one truly worthwhile. I knew it wouldn't happen, but I still wish that H.O.T.S. had a bit more sex and a bit less cheeze. Not quite as notable as NERDS, PORKY'S, or ANIMAL HOUSE, but worth a look for fans of those types of films...7/10
P.S... and I forgot - this one has consummate douche-rag Danny Bonaduce in probably the best role of his career outside of his "reality show"...
Danny Bonaduce's Finest Silver Screen Work
fomblin19 February 2000
While anyone who claims to have watched this movie simply for the Danny Bonaduce shots is clearly in denial of their libido, it is indeed a fine performance, meaning pleasurably hideous.
Danny is some kind of semi-famous celebrity MC here in the movie, which makes you wonder if he wasnt playing himself in this role, so to speak. The shining moment of this movie, outside of the nude scenes, is when Danny gets onstage with his band to sing a song called "Shake it Baby," a song which really has no other words than those. And who can ever forget the scene in which Danny Bonaduce (Richie) finds himself in bed with a live seal and enjoying the action? God knows I have tried to forget, but it is stained on my retina.
There are lots and lots and lots of flopping, nude women in this movie, which serves its purpose rather well I guess. However, when you are done looking at the girls, some scenes to watch out for are: robot maid enters sorority house to find the secret cache of stolen money, extra large nude woman saves the day in a hot air balloon, and perhaps the strangest -- girls make hundreds of dollars selling "pies" consisting only of whip cream on a plate with glued-on nude sorority girl pictures.
If for nothing else, apart from the Bonaduce madness and the kooky bumbling crooks, you have to see this movie to observe the unmeasurable extremes filmmakers will go to in trying to justify what is patently gratuitous nudity. Strip football?
Danny is some kind of semi-famous celebrity MC here in the movie, which makes you wonder if he wasnt playing himself in this role, so to speak. The shining moment of this movie, outside of the nude scenes, is when Danny gets onstage with his band to sing a song called "Shake it Baby," a song which really has no other words than those. And who can ever forget the scene in which Danny Bonaduce (Richie) finds himself in bed with a live seal and enjoying the action? God knows I have tried to forget, but it is stained on my retina.
There are lots and lots and lots of flopping, nude women in this movie, which serves its purpose rather well I guess. However, when you are done looking at the girls, some scenes to watch out for are: robot maid enters sorority house to find the secret cache of stolen money, extra large nude woman saves the day in a hot air balloon, and perhaps the strangest -- girls make hundreds of dollars selling "pies" consisting only of whip cream on a plate with glued-on nude sorority girl pictures.
If for nothing else, apart from the Bonaduce madness and the kooky bumbling crooks, you have to see this movie to observe the unmeasurable extremes filmmakers will go to in trying to justify what is patently gratuitous nudity. Strip football?
Utter Cheese
haildevilman4 May 2007
If you rent this thinking "I hope the script makes me have a warm fuzzy" then Buddha help you.
The title says it all. Cheerleaders and sorority girls acting as bubble-headed as possible and walking around in various states of nude. THAT'S why you rent this one. That's why I did.
Bumbling thieves give it intentional comedy relief. Or maybe it was to give the hornier horn-dogs watching this a chance to cool down. Either way, call it a rest.
But the football game was the scene to see. And they were smart enough to save it for last. Every male enjoys it. And some ladies I know liked it too.
Danny Bonaduce appears before he became a train wreck.
The title says it all. Cheerleaders and sorority girls acting as bubble-headed as possible and walking around in various states of nude. THAT'S why you rent this one. That's why I did.
Bumbling thieves give it intentional comedy relief. Or maybe it was to give the hornier horn-dogs watching this a chance to cool down. Either way, call it a rest.
But the football game was the scene to see. And they were smart enough to save it for last. Every male enjoys it. And some ladies I know liked it too.
Danny Bonaduce appears before he became a train wreck.
Gazooks! They Be Hooters On The Screen!
dgordon-131 March 2003
I remember hearing about this movie and how it played at nearly every drive-in theatre here in Toronto. It's about a group of girls that are not accepted by the other sororities at their college, so they start up their own, and of course call it H.O.T.S. It's a fun movie, that is just bursting with drive-in nostalgia! Lots of fully endowed t-shirts, vans, fighting, and a football game showdown like no other! It's been compared to "Animal House", which is a good movie in it's own right, but to me nothing compares to H.O.T.S. It has it's own brand of fun & character. If you are looking for a classic T n'A movie, look no further because the H.O.T.S. girls are to the rescue, boom-boom shorts & all!
Best Of The Genre
MrVB27 September 1999
A great T&A college flick with Playboy Playmates!
elitedimensions30 April 2005
H.O.T.S. is proof that at one time, the movie industry said "F-OFF" to the censors, and made movies with whatever they wanted! In today's world, this movie would be too "over the top" and "extreme" for it to be anywhere than behind a velvet curtain. Although, BestBuy had several copies on their $5.99 rack (in case anyone wanted to get a copy)! The movie was brilliant in its own way, in that it blended humor into a T&A movie loaded with Playboy Playmates! Unlike most skin flicks, it did have a plot. That, however, is not exactly why you would watch H.O.T.S.
H.O.T.S. is a college movie that reminds me of the Revenge of the Nerds movies, in that it takes a group of "average people" and puts them against the elite rich preppies that most people can't stand! The only difference is that the "Nerds" in this movie have a much better shot at getting laid! I notice that there are some people who would rate this movie low, and to me that is ignorant! Obviously this is not intended to win Oscars or break barriers in film. If you are looking for that, then go watch what ever the critics pick for you! You have to appreciate the fact that this movie actually had a funny plot, decent acting (for the most part given the genre), and plenty of girls getting naked! H.O.T.S. is one of those movies you watch to get your mind off of modern day problems and daily stress, and instead, laugh and have a good time! If you are looking for a funny college-based movie that has enough skin to turn a pink Miata straight, then you should really check out H.O.T.S.!
H.O.T.S. is a college movie that reminds me of the Revenge of the Nerds movies, in that it takes a group of "average people" and puts them against the elite rich preppies that most people can't stand! The only difference is that the "Nerds" in this movie have a much better shot at getting laid! I notice that there are some people who would rate this movie low, and to me that is ignorant! Obviously this is not intended to win Oscars or break barriers in film. If you are looking for that, then go watch what ever the critics pick for you! You have to appreciate the fact that this movie actually had a funny plot, decent acting (for the most part given the genre), and plenty of girls getting naked! H.O.T.S. is one of those movies you watch to get your mind off of modern day problems and daily stress, and instead, laugh and have a good time! If you are looking for a funny college-based movie that has enough skin to turn a pink Miata straight, then you should really check out H.O.T.S.!
H.O.T.S. Is Tops.
Ted_Morgan20 June 2008
Warning: Spoilers
I watched this film with my family over a long Thanksgiving holiday weekend. I am thankful that someone insisted that we watch it, though I didn't pay much attention until the end of the film when a head shearing seems promised, but, alas, doesn't happen.
On the other hand, I watched this movie some years later and loved its liveliness, absurdity, sparkle, and just plain fun. I think that the film has a female tone. Women are not exploited in it even though I am sure that someone might think that the movie is pure exploitation. I think the movie plays with tropes of the period.
I keep thinking someone ought to remake it. And flesh out some of the implications in the original.
On the other hand, I watched this movie some years later and loved its liveliness, absurdity, sparkle, and just plain fun. I think that the film has a female tone. Women are not exploited in it even though I am sure that someone might think that the movie is pure exploitation. I think the movie plays with tropes of the period.
I keep thinking someone ought to remake it. And flesh out some of the implications in the original.
H.O.T.S - Mindless Innocent Fun - A 70's Movie Time Capsule
TBoldOne11 December 2011
First of all, why am I giving this movie a ten? It reminds me of a totally different era. It is weirdly innocent. There is no nastiness in this movie. Even the bad guys in this movie aren't really that bad.
Second, this movie is a time capsule to a more innocent time. Imagine releasing this movie today? It couldn't happen. There just weren't many places to see beautiful naked women on the silver screen, unless you wanted to go to a seedy part of town and visit an adult movie theater. The T&A genre just doesn't exist anymore. In 1979 there was a pent-up demand for this kind of entertainment. Now you can see more T&A on the internet before breakfast than was filmed in this movie. Imagine pitching this script today. "We'll film a zany movie with a bunch of beautiful half-naked women. Teenage boys will come see it for the girls, and we'll put in a few jokes so girls might want to go too." A producer would say "Why would I make a movie with a lot of scenes with naked women? Where is the demand for this product?" The question make no sense today and illustrates how much things have changed since 1979.
Third, this movie, for all the naked girls it, HOTS has a lot of feminist undertones. The women in this movie are strong, and fight to get what they want. The men who try to exploit them are the ones who get embarrassed.
Fourth the women in this movie look "natural." The female stars don't have that nasty silicone look that you see post - 1980. The girls that are "gifted" with ample pulchritude in this movie look real. The stars are not ridiculously hot, i.e. like Angelina Jolie. You could visualize these girls on your college campus in 1979 (if your campus is USC or UCLA I guess, not the engineering school I went to, but I digress)One of the complaints I have about Hollywood today is that actresses just don't look like normal people anymore. I'm sure this is a function of the internet weeding out everyone but the super-gorgeous. The girls in HOTS look like they are attainable, which adds to the innocent charm of the movie.
Finally, the football game at the end of the movie! As a teenager I said to myself, "If I'm reincarnated I want to be the cameraman who filmed the huddles in the HOTS movie!" What incredible creativity! I smile every time I think of that scene :)
Summing Up : A mindless romp to a more innocent time.If you watch it with teenagers today be prepared to explain how and why this genre existed. Today's kid will wonder why this movie was made.
Second, this movie is a time capsule to a more innocent time. Imagine releasing this movie today? It couldn't happen. There just weren't many places to see beautiful naked women on the silver screen, unless you wanted to go to a seedy part of town and visit an adult movie theater. The T&A genre just doesn't exist anymore. In 1979 there was a pent-up demand for this kind of entertainment. Now you can see more T&A on the internet before breakfast than was filmed in this movie. Imagine pitching this script today. "We'll film a zany movie with a bunch of beautiful half-naked women. Teenage boys will come see it for the girls, and we'll put in a few jokes so girls might want to go too." A producer would say "Why would I make a movie with a lot of scenes with naked women? Where is the demand for this product?" The question make no sense today and illustrates how much things have changed since 1979.
Third, this movie, for all the naked girls it, HOTS has a lot of feminist undertones. The women in this movie are strong, and fight to get what they want. The men who try to exploit them are the ones who get embarrassed.
Fourth the women in this movie look "natural." The female stars don't have that nasty silicone look that you see post - 1980. The girls that are "gifted" with ample pulchritude in this movie look real. The stars are not ridiculously hot, i.e. like Angelina Jolie. You could visualize these girls on your college campus in 1979 (if your campus is USC or UCLA I guess, not the engineering school I went to, but I digress)One of the complaints I have about Hollywood today is that actresses just don't look like normal people anymore. I'm sure this is a function of the internet weeding out everyone but the super-gorgeous. The girls in HOTS look like they are attainable, which adds to the innocent charm of the movie.
Finally, the football game at the end of the movie! As a teenager I said to myself, "If I'm reincarnated I want to be the cameraman who filmed the huddles in the HOTS movie!" What incredible creativity! I smile every time I think of that scene :)
Summing Up : A mindless romp to a more innocent time.If you watch it with teenagers today be prepared to explain how and why this genre existed. Today's kid will wonder why this movie was made.
The best of its kind
aldo-renato5014 January 2010
I gave this a 10 because it's the best film of its kind...a good old-fashioned T & A film in the shadow and spirit of "Animal House." I saw this with a similar film called "Swap Meet" and both were good of their type...a great way to spend a Saturday afternoon. Let's be honest...there are more breasts in this movie than one could imagine for an R-rated movie. From beginning to end, they just seem to keep showing up on screen (sunbathing scenes, bedroom scenes and, of course, the climactic football game). Also, a memorable kissing booth (kiss me, Clutz!) Everybody seems to be having a good time in their roles (several Playboy Playmates, Danny Bonaduce, several familiar TV and movie actors, etc.). The only complaint I have to register is that Lisa London's character is called by her last name "O'Hara" and not a good 1970s name like "Olivia" (or even Ora or Ona or O...??!!). I saw this again in the late 1980s with my now ex-wife (pretty well endowed herself) and she couldn't believe I was actually enjoying the movie!! She was probably jealous!! Again, this movie is a great way to spend a Saturday afternoon...just don't think too hard!
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