Co-Ed Fever

Co-Ed Fever is one of the better examples of the golden age of porn. A large cast, a story with lots of humour and some sensual sex scenes. It also helps that some of the actors started out as straight actors so they could put on a performance.

Inspired by Animal House, a magazine publisher does a story on her beloved daughter's sorority. The college sees this as an opportunity for good publicity but does not want it to be squandered by the low brow boyfriends of the sorority girls who project the wrong image. The ladies are banned temporarily from mingling with their fellas but they just cannot help themselves and the men led by Gillis plot to embarrass the college dean which takes place at the final orgy scenes where the punch has been spiked.

Co-Ed Fever has an all star cast from the golden age era. Jamie Gillis, Annette Haven, John Leslie, Terri Dolan, Serena, Vanessa Del Rio, Brooke West, Lisa DeLeeuw, Samantha Fox, Juliet Anderson and RJ Reynolds.

Gillis has probably the best scene with two ladies as a college nerd watches and takes note.

A lot of plot and little sex. That would be broadly the conclusion for Co-Ed Fever. It is not that I dislike the purely cinematographic application in adult cinema, especially if it is fun and contains some bright gag. The real problem is that if I had gone to a film room in the year 80 to see a crazy comedy, I would never have chosen this film, but rather a mainstream comedy of the time (there were lots). Co-Ed Fever is supposed to have fulfilled a ratio of acceptable pornographic scenes for the public that sought this gender in particular, but this really does not happen here. Perhaps there are five complete (I repeat: complete) explicit sex scenes (not counting the recurring final orgy), and the rest is pure plot, pure argument. Dialogues and more dialogues for a story that has its grace, of course, but that seems to forget its authentic essence.

I am aware that, on the one hand, that was the greatness of adult cinema in that golden age, and I will always be a defender of that type of plotted pornography, but I think that Gary Graver (a kind of Ernst Lubitsch of adult cinema) has sinned here by being pretentious. Even so, I recognize the great mastery of this director (Summer Camp Girls, Center Spread Girls, Amanda By Night, V The Hot One and Indecent Exposure... among other greatnesses), and I fervently recommend viewing it without further prejudice or objections.

It has an unusually large cast for an adult film and the plot is more developed than most. The most erotic scene was the threesome with Jamie and the 2 ladies whose names I never figured out.