Gwen Summers returns in "Nothing to Hide 4: Club Purgatory", James Avalon's mea culpa for the mess he dropped on us in Part 3 "Justine's Daughter". Previous film's silly editing and jumbled structure has been replaced by a very interesting, almost Sisyphean approach (shades of "Groundhog Day") in which Gwen's hapless, amnesiac heroine Avril keeps fainting or falling asleep only to wake up on the same couch not too much the wiser as to her true situation.
Avalon clearly shot the two films either back to back or in some overlapping fashion, with many shots and images from Part 3 resurfacing and fleshed out (finally making a bit of sense!) in Part 4. The 2 features should be watched together and a brief recap does not suffice to immerse the viewer cold-turkey into the story if the unfortunately messy Part 3 is skipped.
Star Gwen is fabulous in her innumerable sex scenes, and besides her antics, always in a state of horniness, there are two classic set-pieces. She has sex with big-dicked Julian, who was a contract star for the film's backers Metro Interactive at the time, both underwater and poolside, very well-photographed on 35mm film.
Even better is a very strange, hypnotic lesbian scene starring an actress with perfect nipples Dahlia and an equally sexy starlet Flower, which is observed as a live sex-show by heroine Avril while her earlier underwater sex with Julian is projected on a screen and the lesbians' bodies. Avril is masturbating furiously in the audience, surrounded by her would-be dad Herschel Savage and other guys wearing eye-patches or actually being mannequins instead of real people.
Film climaxes in Club Purgatory, previously glimpsed at the end of Part 3. Pat and Shelby Myne, married at the time, have sex in the Club's orgiastic milieu with out a condom, while the rest of the cast has to copulate with rubbers, and there's even an end credit which explains that strange prohibition in effect (at various major porn studios) back when this was shot.
Ending is fairly satisfying and downbeat as well, but I enjoyed a lot about Part 4, enough to make up for Avalon's pretentious failure at the buildup in his story, known as Part 3.
