Hot Lips (1984)

Like many I learned about this film via its trailer who was included in a trailer compilations and search the film a long time, but it never got a release post VHS for some reasons. I went from three different versions of the film untill I finally got a complete english tape (first one has video color problems in the last five minutes or so, next one was fine but in Spanish and an out of sync edit of those two). Thank God an untouched complete VHS shown up earlier this year.   

So time to jump in for a fun Dave Darby's East Coast production written by Paul Ziller. The film story isn't complicated.

Bill Landis (under the Bobby Spector alias) is a mute living with his father (Michael Gaunt) who pass the time watching his neighbor house. One evening he finds the courage to go at the house and he will be in for a great time...

Sandy King

The neighbor have a daughter too, she is a musician and her band rehearsal annoyed the father of Bill Landis character and he called the cops on them.  

Tish Ambrose

The cops don't shown up fast enough and he finally went to the house himself to complain... that was sure a bad idea since the girls drug him, tie him on the bed and rape him.

Michael Gaunt

Finally the cops show up at the house and... 

Joe Santini and Saud Weinstein

Wait a minute the black one is really familiar. Of course he is, it's John Canada Terrell who stars in Spike Lee's She's Gotta Have It and many other independent New York films.

So to make a long story short it's interrogation time for the girls and the cops don't really care about the man tied on the bed.

Baby Doe, Joe Santini, Athena Star and Jill Morehead

After the "investigation" the police lieutenant shown up at the house too and she will complete the works on the young girl of the house.

Tish Ambrose and Annette Heinz

Finally all end well for everybody. The girls are escorted back to their houses with no repercussions, the kid became his neighbor boy toy and the father is liberated after getting himself some love too.

This is a good example of what the East Coast industry was at its best and it sure worth the time to search it... anyway it isn't that hard to find, but finding a good version is another story.

All we can hope is that a label will wake up and finally give us a DVD/BD release because the film deserve one and we can't even watch it via VOD which is a strict minimum these days.