Site Reviews

Hot House Entertainment's website is a massive treasure trove for its many rabid fans -- and for the rest of us who may be less familiar with the hypermasculine heat of this prolific studio's 70+ films. Kathy Griffin said her ass was sore after just watching some of the videos up for last year's AVN awards. She must have been referring to Hot House.

Studio founder Steven Scarborough could not have a more burnished gay porn pedigree. He was a friend of Falcon Studios founder Chuck Holmes -- and of legendary directors John Summers and Matt Sterling. In 1993, after producing and directing more than 50 films for Falcon Studios, he established Hot House and its three video lines, Hot House, Plain Wrapped and Club Inferno. The result is a catalogue of unbridled, hardcore sucking, fucking, leather, toys, bondage, and ass-stretching that is as intense as you can imagine. Don't bother shaving for this date.


The Hot House Backroom tour is thorough. Simply use the drop-down menus to select videos, models or themes and view their brief previews.


Navigation around this attractive site is fairly simple. You could start by choosing any of the fifteen latest Web exclusive scenes, Hot House scenes, or image galleries pictured on the front page. Or you can select a favorite scene, model, or theme from the drop down menus in the left column. There may be a bit of navigation overkill going on as there are also buttons across the top of the page going to other sections of the site. (The Model button is not a model index, but a blog.)


The Hot House model roster is a who's who of porn gods. More than 300 models have come to prominence as stars and exclusives in the fifteen year history of the studio, and they are all represented on Hot House Backroom. Porn fans know their names as well as those of their own friends: Anthony Gallo, Blue Blake, Carlos Morales, Blade Thompson, Arpad Miklos, Damon Phoenix, Dean Tucker, and many, many others.

These guys are real men. They're masculine and muscular, with some body hair, some tatoos, and lots of tight abs, big cocks, and spit -- lots of spit. There's action of every type, from heated duos and group scenes to very intense sessions of watersports, bondage, and fisting. The scenes are shot indoors, outdoors, poolside, even in medical examining rooms and well-equipped dungeons. And oh yeah, these guys are very vocal. It must take a special grunt language to express what it feels like to have huge dildoes, cocks and fists shoved up your willing hole.

Let's make a clear distinction between the exclusive and non-exclusive content on the site. Your membership entitles you to view close to 350 scenes, averaging 20 minutes in length, from over 70 videos in the site's embedded player, including over 50 "Hot House" titles and over 20 "Club Inferno" titles. Updates are once weekly. All of these scenes have been previously released on DVD and are also available on video-on-demand at Maleflixxx.tv.

But Hot House Backroom also offers high quality exclusive video segments shot just for the website. There's an archive containing almost 60 episodes averaging 20 minutes in length, with weekly updates.

All told, you get approximately 135 hours of top grade porn for your $39.95 monthly membership.

Video is available for streaming only in Flash format, so you can watch as much as you want -- but only as long as you're a member. The vids play in a default window size of 440x330 pixels.

The production values of Hot House videos and web episodes are consistently superior: The action is always staged, lit and shot to perfectly capture the raunchy, masculine heat of these models. This is how porn should look, the careful editing ramps up the heat at the same time as the action. Are the many spectacular cumshots caught? You won't miss a one.

As you can expect from a studio site, there are some bonus sections, such as the Models blog with posting from 10 popular models and the Hot Flashes blog which keeps you up to date on studio news.


Hot House Backroom is a really good studio site. It is a unique chance to see a whole mess of scenes from many of the studio's iconic titles. The site works well and should give you no navigation or technical problems. Some of the scenes are not for the faint of heart, if you "try this at home" you better know what you're doing. But for some of us, just watching these supercharged performances is way hot. A little pricey at $39.95, but if this is the kind of porn you like, well worth it.