There's something pleasing about the production company's name behind this 1979 sex comedy: The Great American Dream Machine Movie Company. Maybe it's because it promises to give us the American dream (which to some people is football and naked breasts - they get their wish here) or just because how awesome it sounds rolling off your tongue. Regardless, I dig it and this gender-twisting riff on Animal House marks their only effort.

Co-written/co-produced by Cheri Caffaro, who's best known for starring as a sexy spy in the Ginger series of sexploitation flicks from the early 70s, H.O.T.S. sits firmly in the wave of low-budget clones that followed in the wake of John Landis' successful campus comedy. It doesn't go for outright voyeurism like such lowbrow T&A fare as Hot T-Shirts (though there is a wet t-shirt scene here that degenerates into a disco dancing face-off) but still wedges as much exposed skin as it possibly can in between scenes of our sorority girls pulling off mostly harmless pranks, a few moments of slapstick including a sped-up raid on the boys dorm, and very mild attempts at having our main girls hook-up with fellow students who enjoy their wild antics.

The campus of Fairenville University, or "Good Ol' F.U.", is about to be the site of much freewheeling humour as four girls (Honey, O'Hara, Terri, Sam - hence our title) have had enough of the stuck-up girls of the Pi house and decide to form their own sorority recruiting various misfits and setting out on their goal to steal every man on campus away from Melody (Lindsay Bloom) and her sisters. At the same time two Italian mobster stereotypes have just been released from jail and they're out to get the money that's stashed in the H.O.T.S. sorority house - they're pretty pointless but it does lead to a scheme with one of them disguised as a cleaning robot that offers up some chuckles and a bunch of the aforementioned slapstick.

Basically this is 98 minutes of the party-hearty girls of H.O.T.S. taking on the snobby girls of Pi as our script tosses out a running gag about just what the sorority's name means ("Hold On To Sex" and "Help Out The Seals" are a few examples) and multiple antics like spiking food at a party with hot sauce and setting up buckets of water to fall on people's heads while filling the skin quotient by having scenes of bare breasts caked in whipping cream, a topless skydiving moment, and (in what amounts to the thing people most remember about this) a finale involving a strip football game as well as shenanigans involving a bear and hot air balloon - whomever thought of the idea of using a "naked huddle cam" is not only a genius but also gets credit for coming up with one of the greatest, most unforgettable, shots I've probably ever seen in a sex comedy such as this.

Playing the ringleader of our sorority, former Playboy Playmate Susan Kiger (The Happy Hooker Goes to Hollywood, House of Death) gives off that All-American Girl vibe but isn't afraid to get naked either, some of you might recognize Angela Aames (and her ample bosom) from numerous low-budget productions from the 80s and her skydiving moment offers some amusement and former "Partridge Family" member and current reality-show staple Danny Bonaduce has a side-role as Richie and gets to sing a song for us in the process. They're just a few components of a cast filled with attractive girls that seem to be enjoying themselves but if you were to pick the stand outs amongst them that would be Bloom's bitchy rival sorority leader and Larry Gilman as head prankster "Mad Dog" who initiates that whipped cream I mentioned above.

As these things go, H.O.T.S. really isn't that great of a time. It lacks any real focus instead going for an "everything but the kitchen sink" attitude in its attempts to ape Animal House every chance it gets. Granted, it could've been yet another forgettable, toss-away T&A effort like Cherry Hill High and a ton of other mid-70s flicks were but a lot of why it's somewhat watchable should be credited to its good-natured cast, plentiful bare boobs, and that sweet, sweet huddle cam. (Chris Hartley, 9/22/10)

Directed By: Gerald Seth Sindell.
Written By: Cheri Caffaro, Joan Buchanan.

Starring: Susan Kiger, Lisa London, Pamela Jean Bryant, Kimberley Cameron.