Happy Birthday: Russ Meyers

Happy Birthday: Russ Meyers

This weekend we celebrate Russ Meyer! This American filmmaker was primarily known for writing and directing campy and satirical sexploitation films featuring large-breasted women, which Arrow cult fans love and know quite well ;)

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Happy Birthday: Russ Meyers
  • Russ Meyer's Vixen

    1968 • United States • Directed by Russ Meyer

    Amid the cultural chaos of 1968 and armed with a budget of only $70,000, producer/director/cinematographer Russ Meyer transcended sexploitation by crafting this "bosomacious melodrama" (Time Magazine) about racism, communism, bush pilots, draft dodge...

  • Russ Meyer's Supervixens

    1975 • United States • Directed by Russ Meyer

    Following the 'serious' features THE SEVEN MINUTES and BLACK SNAKE, this 1975 return to form written, photographed, edited, produced and directed by Russ Meyer remains perhaps his most over-the-top and savagely entertaining epic of all: When a hot-bl...

  • Russ Meyer's Beneath The Valley of the Ultravixens

    1979 • United States • Directed by Russ Meyer

    The final feature produced, photographed, edited and directed by Russ Meyer is a wicked take on Our Town, co-written by Meyer and Roger Ebert. Russ' latter-day muse Francesca 'Kitten' Natividad stars - along with Uschi Digard, Ann Marie and Russ hims...

  • Motorpsycho

    1965 • United States • Directed by Russ Meyer

    Just prior to FASTER, PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL!, producer/director/co-writer and cinematographer Russ Meyer first unleashed his singular vision of full-throttle violence and vengeance with this 1965 shocker: When a trio of psycho bikers launches a sexual...

  • Russ Meyer's Up!

    1976 • United States • Directed by Russ Meyer

    Welcome to a sex-blasted burg in Northern California where sodomized Führers, ravenous piranha, sapphic ecstasy, murder mystery, Shakespearean appropriation and the remarkable Raven De La Croix collide, with Kitten Natividad - in her RM Productions d...