Of all the roughies Alpha Blue Archives have released, it sometimes seems as if their other releases (Climax of Blue Power, Hardgore, Sex Wish) get far more attention than the highly underrated and shocking, Hot Summer in the City. Where the main objective of most roughies is to dump the viewer with the occasional shock, Hot Summer in the City offers an infinite dumping of shock that should provide the viewer much more than the fleeting shock most roughies depict. The unnerving and disturbing reaction which one feels when watching Hot Summer in the City can be much harder to wash off when compared to other adult films of the same genre - it was for me, at least. After 31 years of Hot Summer in the City, it still remains one of the most sadistic and cruel adult masterpieces of all time and one that is filmed superbly in a documentary style, which should please the pervert who wishes to view a very realistic adult film that occasionally merges other genres into the picture. Hot Summer in the City can also be viewed as an exploitation and blaxploitation film.
