The Hills Have Thighs

Okay, I'll admit that the neither fish nor fowl genre of soft-core generally does little for me- it has neither the erotic build up of a good R-rated film nor the carnal reality of an X feature. At least some of them are funny.

While channel surfing the scenery caught my eye (not that scenery though). The Alabama Hills with snow covered Mount Whitney in the background were beautiful in HD. The production values were quite good- even some of the "normal" acting was OK.

The main point of this movie did nothing for me. I found myself fast-forwarding through the bouncing balloon scenes. I even watched to the end to check out the credits and was impressed with the huge list of crew involved. Quality production values, obviously a reasonable budget, even a workable plot- (probably better basic plot than "Tremors" filmed in the same area). It was so poorly executed that even this guy who likes to see top-heavy women gets nothing out of it.

PS- I've climbed some of those rocks. They're very rough on the skin; I feel sorry for the poor actresses!

Hey, I am no one to judge. For me, the best part of this film is the title. Unfortunately, in about 20 years (or less), the women cast in this will (undoubtedly) have serious medical problems. I am not being funny. I have dated 2 young women, both of whom had to have surgery for reductions. If they had not, they would have developed terrible headaches, curvature of the spine, and (worst of all), men never look them in their eyes; only from the neck down. As far as watching this for entertainment, count me out. If I was a teenager, it might be different. However, (as I mentioned at the start) if you like it, watch it.

I've always been fond of Julie K. Smith, but it's the visuals of being shot in the Californian desert that elevate this standard T&A pic 'The Hills Have Thighs' from director Jim Wynorski. Kylee Nash's huge boobs were a treat too I won't lie, but that doesn't change the fact that this is a strictly by the numbers experience.

When their friend goes missing hiking and the authorities can't find him, two couples Ben (Frankie Cullen) & Mary (Smith) and Mike (Mark Weiler) & Sandy (Brandin Rackley) go searching for him themselves. It means hotel sex, desert sex, dream sequence sex, flashback sex, sex with the cavewomen (Nash, Rebecca Love, Dana Bentley) who have him kept sex hostage.

There's one obvious bit of cheapness on display - they reuse Glori-Anne Gilbert's sex scene with Cullen from 'Witches of Breastwick' - but the unique ___location allows this to be a slight step up from the usual low energy formula and the cast look to be having fun. It's still your tame mix of boobs & fake sex coming in at a brisk 70 minutes so I can't rate it higher. Don't read too much into the spoof parody title neither.

This movie ended up creating quite a lot of controversy when it turned out the title was already in use by an amateur film maker who made a non-erotic movie, and his subsequent threats to sue Wynorski for this film.

I'm not sure how much extra publicity the controversy might have created for this version of The Hills Have Thighs, but I'm guessing that even with a different name it would have held up on its own very well.

Unlike a lot of recent softcore movies, where they stack the cast with hardcore girls taking a day off from penetration, they used almost entirely non-hardcore talent here which was a major breath of fresh air. The one exception, Rebecca Love, almost doesn't count as a hardcore girl as she can actually act unlike most of them and really seems to enjoy these kinds of movies.

Kylee Nash, playing the leader of the cave girls, was incredibly hot. The film leaves you with no idea if she can act more than a prehistoric grunt, but she makes up for the lack of dialogue the cave girls get with her eye popping figure. Her scene by the bonfire was not only very sexy, it bordered on actually being somewhat artistic.

Julie K. Smith was great as well, especially in her scene with Frankie Cullen. The leg warmers she wore in this scene were such sexy costuming and they really added a lot. I'm not a fan of the tattoos she's acquired, but she's still very sexy.

Brandin Rackley is attractive, and will appeal to a lot of people, but for me personally it's kind of amazing how she fades into the background when the much larger chested Julie K. Smith, Kylee Nash, and Rebecca Love are around.

One last mention must be made of Diana Terranova. She appears to be more of a "legitimate" actress, which is kind of a shame in a way, because she's gorgeous and I would love to see her do a lot more than dance around during orgy scenes.

It's honestly one of my favorite sofctore movies, especially because of Jim Wynorski's directing performance in producing and directing it. With plenty of outdoor scenes, some interesting shots in the desert, and several surprising and well-done sofctore scenes, it's a movie that should definitely be on your list if you're a lover of this genre.

Usually I think that many of the daylight shots of this genre are not as well achieved as many of us would like, in fact most of them have a lack of light and little genius when they are made, but in this case I think they were achieved quite well and have a very good level of light for the area where it was recorded that although they have a level of natural light, It offers quite a bit of production work.

It is worth noting that several of the protagonists are very good looking and have shown an improvement in their level of acting throughout the film, especially I think they offer good entertainment and that is what many of us come to see in this type of low production cinema.

I definitely recommend watching it when you're bored and need something entertaining to watch or when you have some free time.