- Director: Russ Meyer
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- Genre: Adult
- Movie Type: Sexploitation
- Themes: Miscarriage of Justice, Femmes Fatales, Police Corruption
- Main Cast: Shari Eubank, Charles Napier, Uschi Digard, Charles Pitts, Henry Rowland
- Release Year: 1975
- Country: US
- Run Time: 105 minutes
Plot
Russ Meyer once again airs his obsessions with huge breasts, violent revenge and escaped Nazi war criminal Martin Bormann in this highly perverse sex comedy/action thriller. Clint (Charles Pitts) is working at a gas station (run by none other than Martin Bormann, who was working as a bartender in Meyer's Beyond the Valley of the Dolls) when his wife is brutally murdered by Harry Sledge (Charles Napier), a cop with a deeply sadistic streak. Clint tries to bring Harry to justice while Harry attempts to frame Clint for the crime. In the meantime, Clint is constantly pursued by a variety of women with improbable names, voracious sexual appetites and bodies that make Pamela Anderson look like Kate Moss. More violent and less witty than many of Meyer's films, Supervixens features a villainous performance by Charles Napier, another from Meyer stalwart Stuart Lancaster and several typically cantilevered beauties, including Haji, Shari Eubank and Uschi Digard. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie GuideReview
Set again in the vast Californian deserts and small towns that he loves, Russ Meyer's Supervixens represents a strong return to a confident, independent style after a few side tracks (two major studio releases and the disappointing Blacksnake). Blazing with color and audacious action, this film best presents the Meyer universe, a world where women are all-powerful beings in control of sex and society, and men merely bath toys being tossed in their wake. Every female character's name sports a sassy "Super" as a prefix (Supereula, Superlorna, Supercherry), and their impressive proportions are emphasized through costume, camera angles, and the bold, aggressive nature of their actions. The male leads either run from these aggressive women or attempt to destroy them, choosing acceptance or defiance of what Meyer sees as a natural order. Supervixens is also the most graphic film that Meyer had made at that point.There's less left to the imagination in terms of sex, nudity, and violence, Meyer obviously feeling the need to keep up commercially with an exploitation audience that he himself had helped stoke toward stronger stuff. It's easily his most violent work; the scene where sadistic cop Harry Sledge (Charles Napier) murders Superangel (Shari Eubank) is, for better or for worse, one of the most viciously rendered by any director, the impotent rage that Sledge unleashes terrifyingly real. Meyer wouldn't create anything this intense again, though the two films that followed are definitely along the same outrageously cartoonish lines. This is the finest, most consistently entertaining of the director's 1970s work (though many swear by the hippie-damaged Beyond the Valley of the Dolls), standing alongside the excellent 1966 film Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! as the two pinnacles of his unique career. ~ Fred Beldin, All Movie Guide
Cast
Shari Eubank - Angel Turner/Supervixen- Charles Napier - Harry Sledge
Uschi Digard - SupersoulCharles Pitts - Henry Rowland - Martin Bormann
