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The Other Side of Aspen, Part V
Rating: 3 Stars
Directed by John Rutherford. Videography by Todd Montgomery. Edited by Delta Productions. Music by E.M. Diaz. Starring Jimmy McGuire, Timmy Thomas, Eric Leneau, Matthew Rush, Brad Benton, Joe Foster, Alec Martinez, Matt Majors, Lindon Hawk, Vince Ditonno, Anthony Shaw, Michel Mattel, Brett Wilde, Jackson Price, Braden Lynx, Aaron Osborn, Chad Hunt, Trey Rexx, Leo Bramm, and Mike Flynn.
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When silver-haired Mike Flynn asks Jimmy McGuire to straighten up his garage, he tells his nephew not to "get into any of my personal stuff." McGuire disobeys, of course, and unearths an album of stills depicting Uncle Mike and other cast members from The Other Side of Aspen I. In that short but potent 1979 classic, Flynn played a non-sexual role as the San Francisco roommate Jeff Turk regales with accounts of his Aspen adventures. McGuire continues the tradition by relating some of his own experiences on the sexual margins of the Colorado ski resort.

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He tells of peeping at sex between Eric Leneau and Matthew Rush, observing a couple of feisty three-ways, and joining in a 15-man orgy. Each Other Side of Aspen installment has featured a high-octane group-sex episode; sadly, the orgy sequence in OSOA V isn't up to its predecessors. The scene has energy, and should please thermal underwear fetishists, but except for the passage where McGuire joins the party and gets his clothes peeled off, it's mostly unfocused, jumping from image to image before you know who or what you're looking at. Top-notch performers like Matt Majors get lost in the shuffle. Jackson Price, Chad Hunt, and Leo Bramm fare better in a post-orgy threesome. A concluding puppy-love sequence between McGuire and startlingly young-looking Timmy Thomas, who has erection problems, is nearly a dud. Director John Rutherford had more success with OSOA III and IV.

It's worth noting that Falcon has recently released the original Other Side of Aspen on DVD, with supplemental commentary by director Bill Clayton. The performances of Al Parker, Casey Donovan, Dick Fisk, Jeff Turk, and Chad Benson remain astonishing.