The second of Severin's new 4K Russ Meyer releases, scanned and restored from the original 35mm negative in conjunction with The Russ Meyer Trust, is 1975's SUPERVIXENS. Made after Meyer's brief Hollywood studio career, it's a film that contains all the elements his fans had by now come to know and love, including lurid plotlines, frequently odd choices of soundtrack music, and of course beautiful women with enormous gravity-defying breasts.
SUPERVIXENS plays like a cross between film noir and a road runner cartoon, with a big break for some sex comedy shenanigans right in the middle. Psychotic cop Harry Sledge (Charles Napier) murders SuperAngel (Shari Eubank), the wife of petrol station attendant Clint Ramsey (Charles Pitt). While the film opens with the usual bouncy breasty fun be warned that the violence against Eubank's character, and especially her murder, is unexpectedly unpleasant.
Sledge tries to frame Clint for the murder and Clint goes on the run, travelling through a Russ Meyer landscape that is every bit as unique to its auteur as Sergio Leone 's westerns or Hammer's horror films. Every woman Clint meets is not just attractive but has huge breasts and chases after him with sex comedy verve. By the time he has met SuperVixen (Eubank again in a different role) Sledge is back on his trail and the film culminates in a ludicrous climax straight out of Warner Bros. cartoons. And no, I have no idea why every girl in this has 'Super' attached to their name. Perhaps Meyer just thought they were really, really great, which in a number of ways they are.
Severin's 4K UHD transfer is once more an eye opener, with the vivid reds of vehicles contrasting with the desert landscape, and yet again fans familiar with this one will probably shake their heads in disbelief at just how good it looks.
Extras include an archival Russ Meyer commentary, a Meyer interview from 1990 (24 minutes), a previously unseen interview with star Charles Napier (19 minutes), the episode of Jonathan Ross's Channel 4 Incredibly Strange Film Show (40 minutes, and providing a nice bit of nostalgia for those of us old enough), a trailer and TV spot.
Russ Meyer's SUPERVIXENS is out from Severin Films in either a UHD / Blu-ray combo or just Blu-ray alone on Monday 27th January 2025
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