Russ Meyer

  • Russ Meyer – Finders Keepers, Lovers Weepers! (1968)

    1961-1970CrimeExploitationRuss MeyerUSA

    Paul, the owner of a topless go-go bar on the Sunset Strip, isn’t having a good day. His girlfriend, unbeknownst to him, is planning to rob his club, and his wife is having an affair with the hunky bartender.Read More »

  • Russ Meyer – Black Snake (1973)

    1971-1980ActionRuss MeyerUSA

    In 1835, the San Cristobal Island located somewhere in the British West Indies is ruled by sadistic beauty, Lady Susan Walker, who forces the local men to join the black slaves on her sugar cane plantation and either work or die. She’s always dressed in black and never lets go of her whip, the black snake. Her latest husband has gone missing making her a real black widow. Her right hand man, impotent, racist and violent Joxer Tierney, is in command of the slaves and he makes sure that they hate him even more than they do her. Young slave Joshua plans a revolt, but his religious father Isaiah is terrified of what might happen if the revolt fails. Sir Charles Walker, the brother of Susan’s late husband, goes undercover as Ronald Sopwith to investigate what really happened to his brother. She hires him as the plantation accountant, gives him a black sex slave named Cleone and eventually tries to seduce him. Her sadistic gay assistant may no more about Charles’ brother’s fate.Read More »

  • Russ Meyer – Beneath the valley of the Ultravixens (1979)

    1971-1980ComedyExploitationRuss MeyerUSA

    Believe it or not even in Smalltown USA there are still people who are unfulfilled and unrelieved in the midst of plenty. Levonna and Lamar could have the perfect relationship if it were not Lamar’s obsession with rear entry.Read More »

  • Russ Meyer – Cherry, Harry & Raquel! (1969)

    1961-1970ActionExploitationRuss MeyerUSA

    In a small border town, a sheriff and his ‘associate’ who are involved in an operation in which they divert marijuana through the border, must kill another smuggler who has gone into business for himself.Read More »

  • Russ Meyer & Albert Zugsmith – Fanny Hill AKA Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1964)

    1961-1970Albert ZugsmithComedyCultRuss MeyerUSA

    Synopsis:
    Young, pretty and innocent Fanny Hill has lost her parents and must find her way in life amidst the perils of turbulent 18th century London. She is fortunate enough to find rapidly a place as chambermaid of the effusive Mrs. Brown. Mrs. Brown lives in a large house teeming with female “relatives” in négligée and with very relaxed manners. She also insists that Fanny meets alone various gentlemen who show an ardent interest in Fanny.Read More »

  • Russ Meyer – Europe in the Raw (1963)

    1961-1970DocumentaryEroticaRuss MeyerUSA

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    EUROPE in the RAW is an unrestrained, voluptuous, and wanton excursion to the birthplace of sensual erotism. Much of this captivating film was shot with the camera carefully concealed in a briefcase. With the camera hidden in such a novel fashion, we were able to film many behind – the – scenes activities which, otherwise, would not have been allowed. Other photographers who have tried to film the uninhibited footage have had their cameras and film confiscated by law enforcement authorities, or have been subjected to bodily harm by members of the underworld. Even filming this sensational footage clandestinely involved great risks. Now, Russ Meyer, the creator of THE IMMORAL MR. TEAS, brings to the screen his greatest triumph . . .
    EUROPE in the RAW! Your own personal passport to ribald pleasure!Read More »

  • Russ Meyer – Beyond the Valley of the Dolls [+Extras] (1970)

    1961-1970CampCultQueer Cinema(s)Russ MeyerUSA

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    This film is a sequel in name only to Valley of the Dolls (1967). An all-girl rock band goes to Hollywood to make it big. There they find success, but luckily for us, they sink into a cesspool of decadence. This film has a sleeping woman performing on a gun which is in her mouth. It has women posing as men. It has lesbian sex scenes. It is also written by Roger Ebert, who had become friends with Russ Meyer after writing favorable reviews of several of his films.

    Quote:
    It’s deadpan-droll throughout (with at least as many highly quotable lines as Rocky Horror), cod-moralistic, carefully balanced between satire and melodrama, gratuitously focused on women with outsize breasts, and shot and edited with astonishing mastery. Much of Meyer’s film language, as Ebert points out, is redolent of ‘pure’ silent cinema: to-the-point storytelling and earnestly expressive performances, plus montage sequences worthy of Slavko Vorkapich.

    — Tony Ryans, Sight & SoundRead More »

  • Russ Meyer – Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965)

    1961-1970CampCultRuss MeyerUSA

    Quote:
    From the first, Meyer’s movies attracted a smattering of hip-cynical-cool college types along with the hordes of raincoats who just came to see huge tits. If you watch the entire back catalogue in one go, it becomes mind-numbing; but if you sample selectively the films are astonishing. His films celebrate and caricature a still-young country’s adolescent male obsessions – babes in boots, fast cars, ultra-violence, jazzy music, really large breasts, the need for speed, small-town scandal, cheap thrills and fast sex.Read More »

  • Russ Meyer – Black Snake (1973)

    1971-1980HorrorRuss MeyerUSA

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    Story of a slave revolt on a 19th-century Caribbean island.Read More »

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