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Russell Albion Meyer (March 21, 1922 – September 18, 2004) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, and editor. He is known primarily for writing and directing a series of successful sexploitation films that featured campy humor, sly satire and large-breasted women, such as Faster, Pussycat! Kill!.
Russ Meyer was a director, cinematographer, and writer of nudie and exploitation films, known for his Gothic period and Vixen!. He also shot some of the earliest Playboy centerfolds and wrote several autobiographies.
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- 'Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!' (1965) "Dialog to shame Raymond Chandler" "The point is of no return, and you've reached it!" Faster, Pussycat! represents the pinnacle of Meyer's exploitation powers.
- 'Beyond the Valley of the Dolls' (1970) The cult classic to beat all cult classics. "Step into my web said the spider, etcetera." A spoof of the original Valley of the Dolls, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls was written by Roger Ebert as a psychedelic and irreverent take on the music industry and Hollywood excess.
- 'Supervixens' (1975) A classic of camp cinema. "What you need is a long fuse and a big bang." Supervixens chronicles the adventures of Clint Ramsey (Charles Pitts), a gas station attendant who finds himself pursued by various demanding and hypersexual women, all of whom have "Super" in their name: SuperAngel (Shari Eubank), SuperSoul (Uschi Digard), SuperLorna (Christy Hartburg), SuperCherry (Colleen Brennan), and SuperEula (Deborah McGuire).
- 'Vixen!' (1968) The quintessential Meyers movie. The tongue-in-cheek, taboo-smashing Vixen! revolves around Vixen Palmer (Erica Gavin), who lives with her bush pilot husband, Tom (Garth Pillsbury), at a Canadian wilderness resort.
Russ Meyer. Director: Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens. Russell Albion Meyer was born in San Leandro, California, to Lydia Lucinda (Hauck), a nurse, and William Arthur Meyer, a police officer, who divorced during his childhood.
- March 21, 1922
- September 18, 2004
Oct 5, 2022 · Kitten Natividad, who brought audacity and ample physical attributes to some of the final films of Russ Meyer, whose over-the-top sexploitation movies acquired a certain cachet in some quarters...
Dec 19, 2023 · All about Russ Meyer’s “rural gothic” period, 1964-1967, including the films Lorna, Mudhoney, MotorPsycho, Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, Common Law Cabin an...
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