TABOO IV: THE NEXT GENERATION (xxx film review)

 






















An early poster for 1984's Taboo 3 had the tagline "The Final Chapter". I don't know if they seriously intended for it to be the last film in the series, but it must have been more successful than they expected because just one year later this 4th film was released. The husband and wife creative team of writer Helen Terrie and director Kirdy Stevens returned to give us another taboo tale of incest, this time focusing on sex between father and daughters.

Jamie Gillis stars as Dr. Jeremy Lodge, he's a psychiatrist whose area of expertise is treating patients who have engaged (willingly or otherwise) in incest. And the connection to previous films is that both Barbara Scott and Joyce McBride are patients of his. 

So even though Taboo 3 ended with both women happily engaging in sexual relationships with their sons, they both have come to regret it in the past year. Kay Parker does not appear in this film, although we get a flashback sex scene of her and Mike Ranger, who played her son Paul, from Taboo 1. This is during a scene where we see Jeremy alone in his office, dictating a report where he discusses his recent appointment with Barbara. He says she's been having trouble sleeping because of what happened with her Paul, and that's where we get the flashback. He then mentions "she then turned to her other son Jimmy, who was 20 years old at the time." 

So that's interesting in that it's the first time we get a specific age for any of the characters in these films. But Jeremy is interrupted so he stops there, and that's the last we hear of Barbara in this film. 






















Honey Wilder and Kevin James do appear in this film, playing Joyce and Junior McBride again. They're apparently living together and continuing their sexual relationship, although Joyce feels guilty about it and wants to stop, and that's why she's seeing Jeremy.  She attends group therapy sessions with other patients of his. Junior drops her off at her appointment early in the film, where they argue about whether their relationship is wrong. Junior says everything was fine until she starting sleeping with Brian, to which she counters "if you hadn't left home, darling, I wouldn't have turned to your brother." We see Joyce in the group session recounting the events from Taboo 2, about how she caught Junior with Sherry and started drinking and then ended up in bed with him herself, and this is also shown in flashback. She doesn't have time to discuss her affair with Brian, but we can assume that he and Jimmy are on the road with that rock band that they manage, and that's when Junior returned to live with Joyce again.

Jeremy is married to Alice (Cyndee Summers) and they have two daughters, Naomi and Robin, who are played by Karen Summer and Ginger Lynn, and are the real lead characters of this film.





















No age is given for either character (both actresses were 23 at the time of this film), but they're initially in a boarding school, so they're presumably meant to be teenagers. They share a room at their school, and one night Naomi (who is implied to be a lot wilder than her sister) sneaks a boy named Richie (Francois Papillion) into their room so she can have sex with him. Under the guise of not wanting Robin to have any info to blackmail her with later, she encourages Richie to mess with Robin too. 

While Robin pretends to be asleep, Naomi licks her pussy (the first example of lesbian incest in any of these films) and then has Richie start fucking her, which he does for a little bit until they get back into Naomi's bed so she can fuck Richie. They fall asleep afterward and later that night one of the teachers comes in to check and catches Richie in bed with Naomi. Because of this, Naomi is expelled from the school, and Robin leaves too because she says she wouldn't be able to face anyone else at school after that. So both girls are sent home.

John Leslie plays Jeremy's brother Billy, whom the girls call Uncle Billy. We learn that he and Alice have been having an affair for a long time, possibly even before Alice married Jeremy. And Billy and Alice are both aware that Naomi is really his daughter, although Jeremy doesn't appear to know that. For some reason, Alice and Billy decide to have sex while Jeremy is home running one of his sessions (he works out of an office in his home) and he catches them afterward and kicks Alice out. When the girls get home, they tell them that Alice is going to live with Billy and give them the choice of who to live with. Robin decides to stay with Jeremy, while Naomi goes to live with her mother. 

While living with Alice and Billy Naomi acts increasingly flirtatious towards Billy, and when Alice notices and complains, Billy insists that it's innocent, that she just loves him as her "uncle." But we get a scene of Naomi in the shower fantasizing about Billy, and one night she watches from the outside window as Alice gives Billy a blowjob in their bedroom. Billy sees her watching and seems conflicted but turned on by it. 

While living with Jeremy, Robin tries to question him about his work a couple of times, but he doesn't like to talk about it with her. One day, after dropping off Joyce at the house, Junior meets Robin. She invites him and they start flirting, she knows what his mother is there for and questions Junior about incest. Joyce leaves the group session early because she got turned on by one of the other patient's stories, and Robin convinces Junior to take his mother into her bedroom to have sex, which he does, holding her up against the wall as he fucks her.


Ginger walks in and "catches" them while they're doing it. 

Joyce is surprised and embarrassed, and walks out sadly saying "I may never get better." 

And that is the last we see of her character in this film series. Bringing her story to an ambiguous ending. 


Once she leaves, Junior and Robin have sex on the bed.

Naomi also gets some outside-the-family action, in the form of Dalton, the director of a play that both she and Robin are starring in (there's no mention of either girl going to a new school or anything). Joey Silvera plays Dalton, and he is known for seducing his leading ladies, and Naomi is no exception. They have a scene where they get alone to do some "improve" acting. Dalton comes up with a scenario where he wants Naomi to pretend that he's her handsome cousin whom she grew up with and always had a crush on, and they go skinny dipping together and she decides to tell him how she feels. They play along for a few minutes and then actually have sex.

Finally, one night while alone in the house together Naomi comes on Billy, asking him to make love to her. Billy tries to resist, reminding her that he's her uncle, but she says "we're closer than that." Looking surprised, Billy asks what she means by that, but she just says that they're soulmates and that she feels closer to him than she has to anyone in her whole life. And they fuck on the couch. 

The final scene is at Jeremy's house. It's late and he can't sleep. He's lonely and horny. He tries to call Alice, but we see she's having sex with Billy and doesn't answer the phone. He then starts picturing Robin posing nude, and he goes to her bedroom where she's sleeping naked. Similar to how Barbara first approached Paul in Taboo 1, Jeremy tries to leave the room but keeps turning back to look at Robin, until finally he starts to fondle her body.

Robin wakes up and says "I understand, Daddy" and he goes down on her. Then she blows him. Then he gets on top of her and fucks her, and they both love it. In the end, he declares that "you're my woman now," and she agrees "yes, Daddy, I'm all yours." He then recites marriage vows asking her to promise to love honor and obey him (she says "I do") for richer or poorer, "until the end of time." THE END.


First, let me add that another great scene involves Robin Cannes, who plays another of Jeremy's patients who takes part in the group sessions. She tells everyone about how she started having sex with her brother. 

After seeing each other masturbarting a few times, she would intentionally wear skimpy clothes to turn him on, until one night while she walked past his room he bragged her and pulled her onto his bad and "forced" her to have sex with him (Which she clearly loved). 

Craig Roberts plays her brother, and it's a hot scene. 


This is one of the better films in the series, it's a nice original story, that ties in naturally to the previous films, via the Dr. Jeremy Lodge character. As I noted in my review of Taboo 3, this is the kind of story that I would done for that film, with perhaps the Lodges being MaryLou's family, and she being in the role that Naomi is in this film. 

This was one of Ginger's Lynn's earliest porn films, and she would go one to become a legend in the business, and you can see her talent early on. But the whole cast is great, that's something Terrie and Stevens were always able to do, get good actors for these films, and this is no exception. 

Chacebook rating: FOUR STARS

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