The year’s shortest month gets the biggest bang as Severin Films today announced their February 27th releases featuring uncensored 4K restorations of the infamous 1960’s western ‘roughies’ from the depraved minds of exploitation legends Bob Cresse and Lee Frost, Hot Spur and Scavengers.
‘“The Kings of esoteric boutique companies” (Video WatchBlog) are also proud to release – because Severin co-founder/president David Gregory considers it one of the best films he saw as a jury member at the FrightFest and Sitges Film Festivals – the North American disc premiere of director/co-writer Andrew Legge’s time-travel mind-bender, Lola.
Previous limited edition title Spider Labyrinth also enters wide release.
Here’s everything you need to know about Severin’s February 2024 lineup…
Hot Spur
Having struck gold with shockumentaries like Ecco and Mondo Bizarro, producer Bob Cresse and writer/director Lee Frost applied their distinctive sleaze aesthetic to a revenge western they advertised as “91 minutes of Freudian fury!
‘“The Kings of esoteric boutique companies” (Video WatchBlog) are also proud to release – because Severin co-founder/president David Gregory considers it one of the best films he saw as a jury member at the FrightFest and Sitges Film Festivals – the North American disc premiere of director/co-writer Andrew Legge’s time-travel mind-bender, Lola.
Previous limited edition title Spider Labyrinth also enters wide release.
Here’s everything you need to know about Severin’s February 2024 lineup…
Hot Spur
Having struck gold with shockumentaries like Ecco and Mondo Bizarro, producer Bob Cresse and writer/director Lee Frost applied their distinctive sleaze aesthetic to a revenge western they advertised as “91 minutes of Freudian fury!
- 2/12/2024
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2023, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists.
In all honesty, the films of 2023 should take a backseat to the images we are seeing every day in Gaza, where journalists and average citizens have been recording and documenting a daily assault on their homes and livelihoods by the Idf. Whatever fakery we watched and enjoyed in the cinema this year should always be kept in perspective in importance with images that are real and actually happening right now. The Palestinians who have documented these important images have been targeted and killed with intent and purpose to silence what their photos and videos are showing and saying.
List of journalists who have been killed.
The below is of lesser note:
Best First Watches:
Angel’s Egg La belle noiseuse Centipede Horror Charley Varrick Coffy Crimson Gold...
In all honesty, the films of 2023 should take a backseat to the images we are seeing every day in Gaza, where journalists and average citizens have been recording and documenting a daily assault on their homes and livelihoods by the Idf. Whatever fakery we watched and enjoyed in the cinema this year should always be kept in perspective in importance with images that are real and actually happening right now. The Palestinians who have documented these important images have been targeted and killed with intent and purpose to silence what their photos and videos are showing and saying.
List of journalists who have been killed.
The below is of lesser note:
Best First Watches:
Angel’s Egg La belle noiseuse Centipede Horror Charley Varrick Coffy Crimson Gold...
- 1/3/2024
- by Soham Gadre
- The Film Stage
Hello, readers! In anticipation of the launch of Daily Dead’s 8th Annual Holiday Gift Guide later this month, we’re going to spend the next few weeks celebrating a series of independent artists who specialize in creating horror-themed merchandise and more. Be sure to check back every day throughout the month of November to learn more about all of these indie artisans, and hopefully these profiles will help inspire your holiday shopping lists this year. Cheers!
For her novella Hooker, author M. Lopes da Silva transports readers back to Los Angeles in the year 1984 for her tale of a woman named Sylvia seeking to enact her revenge on a mysterious serial killer who has targeted a group of sex workers, including her sister, Penny. Along the way, Sylvia teams up with an intrepid reporter named Crystal and her longtime friend Frankie to take down this scumbag before he can claim more victims,...
For her novella Hooker, author M. Lopes da Silva transports readers back to Los Angeles in the year 1984 for her tale of a woman named Sylvia seeking to enact her revenge on a mysterious serial killer who has targeted a group of sex workers, including her sister, Penny. Along the way, Sylvia teams up with an intrepid reporter named Crystal and her longtime friend Frankie to take down this scumbag before he can claim more victims,...
- 11/18/2020
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
” For I am Superwoman, and you have spurned her!”
Article by Jim Batts, Dana Jung, and Tom Stockman
Russell Albion “Russ” Meyer was born in California in 1922 and spent WWII as a combat photographer. In 1953 Playboy magazine debuted and Meyer was one of its first centerfold photographers. Meyer had a knack, and a passion, for photographing gorgeous, busty women and felt that the gals in the nudist camp movies that were popular in the ’50s were far too plain-looking for his tastes. In 1959, Meyer scraped together $24,000 and made The Immoral Mr. Teas, a quaint, colorful, and cartoonish movie about a nerdy fellow whose life is constantly interrupted by beautiful large-breasted women in various stages of undress. There was no sex in Meyer’s film and he made no pretense of presenting nudity as a lifestyle choice, as did the nudist camp movies. It was a simple and honest film about...
Article by Jim Batts, Dana Jung, and Tom Stockman
Russell Albion “Russ” Meyer was born in California in 1922 and spent WWII as a combat photographer. In 1953 Playboy magazine debuted and Meyer was one of its first centerfold photographers. Meyer had a knack, and a passion, for photographing gorgeous, busty women and felt that the gals in the nudist camp movies that were popular in the ’50s were far too plain-looking for his tastes. In 1959, Meyer scraped together $24,000 and made The Immoral Mr. Teas, a quaint, colorful, and cartoonish movie about a nerdy fellow whose life is constantly interrupted by beautiful large-breasted women in various stages of undress. There was no sex in Meyer’s film and he made no pretense of presenting nudity as a lifestyle choice, as did the nudist camp movies. It was a simple and honest film about...
- 3/24/2020
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
This is my film review and it Freaks Me Out! Girlie-art legend Russ Meyer and then- tyro critic Roger Ebert fashion the most garish, vulgar and absurd satire of wild Hollywood that they can think of, a camp vision of joy straight from the dizzy imagination of a breast-obsessed glamour photographer. All your favorites are here -- Erica Gavin, Dolly Read, Marcia McBroom, Cynthia Meyers, Edy Williams. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls + The Seven Minutes Region B Blu-ray + Pal DVD Arrow Video (UK) 1970 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 109 min. / Street Date January 18, 2016 / Available from Amazon UK £17.99 Starring Dolly Read, Cynthia Meyers, Marcia McBroom, Erica Gavin, John Lazar, Michael Blodgett, David Gurian, Edy Williams, Phyllis Davis, Harrison Page, Duncan McLeod, Charles Napier, Haji, Pam Grier, Coleman Francis, The Strawberry Alarm Clock. Cinematography Fred J. Koenecamp Editors Dann Cahn, Dick Wormell Original Music Stu Phillips Written by Roger Ebert, Russ Meyer Produced and...
- 1/26/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Tim George Mar 8, 2019
Hannibal Lecter and Hans Gruber? They're the movie villains who get the recognition they deserve. But what about this lot?
When you think of your great villains, your Darth Vaders, your Jokers, your Hannibal Lecters, who stands out? It boils down to one thing: showmanship. Whether it is in terms of appearance, personality, or action, characters like these hog the spotlight. When they are onscreen, you cannot take your eyes off them.
In forming this list, I found that I was gravitating toward characters who lacked this kind of showmanship. Maybe the title of this article should have been ‘understated.’ While there are a few on this list who you could count as flamboyant (and one played by Gary Busey), on the whole, the characters on these list prefer to hide in the shadows where they can hide their deeds and plot their next scheme. They’re...
Hannibal Lecter and Hans Gruber? They're the movie villains who get the recognition they deserve. But what about this lot?
When you think of your great villains, your Darth Vaders, your Jokers, your Hannibal Lecters, who stands out? It boils down to one thing: showmanship. Whether it is in terms of appearance, personality, or action, characters like these hog the spotlight. When they are onscreen, you cannot take your eyes off them.
In forming this list, I found that I was gravitating toward characters who lacked this kind of showmanship. Maybe the title of this article should have been ‘understated.’ While there are a few on this list who you could count as flamboyant (and one played by Gary Busey), on the whole, the characters on these list prefer to hide in the shadows where they can hide their deeds and plot their next scheme. They’re...
- 3/20/2015
- Den of Geek
Stars: Brea Grant, Kane Hodder, Bill Moseley, Don Shanks, R.A Mihailoff, Michael Berryman, John Kassir, Dane Rhodes, Shanna Forrestall, John Schneider, Adria Tennor, Andrew Bowen, Amy Brassette | Written and Directed by John Schneider
Horror comedy Smothered is written and directed by actor turned director John Schneider. Yes, you did read that correctly… Actor John Schneider, who many will know from family-friendly productions and his roles as Bo Duke on Dukes of Hazzard and more recently Jonathan Kent, aka Superman’s dad, on Smallville, has turned his hand to writing and directing in more recent years but who knew he had a penchant for penning horror? Admittedly he has had roles in low-budget monster movies such as Super Shark, Snow Beast and Lake Placid 2 but I had no idea he was such a horror fan – he certainly has to be to create such a love letter to the horror community as Smothered.
Horror comedy Smothered is written and directed by actor turned director John Schneider. Yes, you did read that correctly… Actor John Schneider, who many will know from family-friendly productions and his roles as Bo Duke on Dukes of Hazzard and more recently Jonathan Kent, aka Superman’s dad, on Smallville, has turned his hand to writing and directing in more recent years but who knew he had a penchant for penning horror? Admittedly he has had roles in low-budget monster movies such as Super Shark, Snow Beast and Lake Placid 2 but I had no idea he was such a horror fan – he certainly has to be to create such a love letter to the horror community as Smothered.
- 6/5/2014
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
David O Russell's biopic of Russ Meyer has yet to burst out of development, but there's now another project involving the smut auteur in the works. Sobini Films, Permut Presentations and Chautauqua Entertainment have come together for Russ & Roger Go Beyond, charting Meyer's unlikely collaboration with the late, great Roger Ebert on Beyond The Valley Of the Dolls.Meyer shot newsreel footage during WWII, and in peacetime began to find success as a glamour photographer during Playboy's early years. In the early 60s he started filming soft porn "nudie cuties", before hitting on his own niche of weirdly violent live-action cartoons, full of massive-breasted, aggressively dominant women, and spineless quivering men. And Charles Napier. Once publicly accused of being "nothing but a tit man", he retorted, "That's only the half of it."Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! was the flick that put him on the map, followed by such equally scurrilous classics as Vixen!
- 10/9/2013
- EmpireOnline
The Russ Meyer Show Featuring Kitten Natividad takes place in St. Louis this Friday, June 15th at The Way Out Club. Details at the end of this article.
Article by Jim Batts, Dana Jung, and Tom Stockman
Russell Albion “Russ” Meyer was born in California in 1922 and spent WWII as a combat photographer. In 1953 Playboy magazine debuted and Meyer was one of its first centerfold photographers. Meyer had a knack, and a passion, for photographing gorgeous, busty women and felt that the gals in the nudist camp movies that were popular in the ’50s were far too plain-looking for his tastes. In 1959, Meyer scraped together $24,000 and made The Immoral Mr. Teas, a quaint, colorful, and cartoonish movie about a nerdy fellow whose life is constantly interrupted by beautiful large-breasted women in various stages of undress. There was no sex in Meyer’s film and he made no pretense of presenting nudity as a lifestyle choice,...
Article by Jim Batts, Dana Jung, and Tom Stockman
Russell Albion “Russ” Meyer was born in California in 1922 and spent WWII as a combat photographer. In 1953 Playboy magazine debuted and Meyer was one of its first centerfold photographers. Meyer had a knack, and a passion, for photographing gorgeous, busty women and felt that the gals in the nudist camp movies that were popular in the ’50s were far too plain-looking for his tastes. In 1959, Meyer scraped together $24,000 and made The Immoral Mr. Teas, a quaint, colorful, and cartoonish movie about a nerdy fellow whose life is constantly interrupted by beautiful large-breasted women in various stages of undress. There was no sex in Meyer’s film and he made no pretense of presenting nudity as a lifestyle choice,...
- 6/12/2012
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
This article was originally posted in February of 2010 but is being reposted here with updates and to tie in to next week’s Wamg Top Ten Tuesday List “The Best of Russ Meyer”.
Mondo Topless (1966) is Russ Meyer’s send up of the swingin’ 60′s, a pseudo-documentary portrait of San Francisco, and most of all, a tribute to Meyer’s favorite subject; naked women! The 61-minute sort-of-documentary is sparse, even by Russ Meyer standards – just a rock soundtrack by The Aladdins accompanied by an overexuberant announcer who provides double entendre narration as stacked women dance about displaying their figures. Mondo Topless, which seems relatively wholesome now, was definitely a product of its time and requires historical perspective (and, despite the name of this column, it Is available on DVD).
With today’s endless cornucopia of internet porn, it’s hard to believe that less than 50 years ago, there was an...
Mondo Topless (1966) is Russ Meyer’s send up of the swingin’ 60′s, a pseudo-documentary portrait of San Francisco, and most of all, a tribute to Meyer’s favorite subject; naked women! The 61-minute sort-of-documentary is sparse, even by Russ Meyer standards – just a rock soundtrack by The Aladdins accompanied by an overexuberant announcer who provides double entendre narration as stacked women dance about displaying their figures. Mondo Topless, which seems relatively wholesome now, was definitely a product of its time and requires historical perspective (and, despite the name of this column, it Is available on DVD).
With today’s endless cornucopia of internet porn, it’s hard to believe that less than 50 years ago, there was an...
- 6/8/2012
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Imposing character actor often cast in the films of Russ Meyer and Jonathan Demme
Charles Napier, who has died aged 75, was one of Hollywood's most distinctive and imposing character actors. With his blockish head, heavy jaw and formidable stare, he was called upon most often to play no-nonsense heavies. In a career lasting more than 40 years, he appeared in some of Hollywood's most successful films and television series, and was cherished in particular by the directors Russ Meyer and Jonathan Demme, who cast him repeatedly.
Napier resigned himself long ago to the character actor's lot – familiarity without celebrity. "Wherever I go, people will look at me as though they recognise me," he wrote in his autobiography, Square Jaw and Big Heart: The Life and Times of a Hollywood Actor (2011). "They see that square jaw with the big smile. They may not know my name, but they know that face."
He was born in Allen County,...
Charles Napier, who has died aged 75, was one of Hollywood's most distinctive and imposing character actors. With his blockish head, heavy jaw and formidable stare, he was called upon most often to play no-nonsense heavies. In a career lasting more than 40 years, he appeared in some of Hollywood's most successful films and television series, and was cherished in particular by the directors Russ Meyer and Jonathan Demme, who cast him repeatedly.
Napier resigned himself long ago to the character actor's lot – familiarity without celebrity. "Wherever I go, people will look at me as though they recognise me," he wrote in his autobiography, Square Jaw and Big Heart: The Life and Times of a Hollywood Actor (2011). "They see that square jaw with the big smile. They may not know my name, but they know that face."
He was born in Allen County,...
- 10/28/2011
- by Ryan Gilbey
- The Guardian - Film News
In the Hollywood Reporter, Todd McCarthy writes that "while it's possible to regard the subtitle of Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark as subtly snide, author Brian Kellow strongly suggests that Pauline, as she was called by everyone and is invariably referred to in these pages, lived most intensely in a darkened theater. As a film critic for The New Yorker from 1967 to 1991, she responded to movies with an unmediated emotion that was perhaps absent from her personal life (she is never described as having been in love with anyone after college), and her reactions could even be physical; one friend swears Pauline levitated at one screening, and her companion at Last Tango in Paris, about which she wrote her most famous review, said she was 'drenched' afterward, unable to talk."
"The Nobel Prize in Literature 2011 was awarded to Tomas Tranströmer 'because, through his condensed, transluscent images, he...
"The Nobel Prize in Literature 2011 was awarded to Tomas Tranströmer 'because, through his condensed, transluscent images, he...
- 10/6/2011
- MUBI
Roger Ebert referred to him as “that character actor with a smile like Jaws”. When author Jimmy McDonough titled his Russ Meyer biography Big Bosoms and Square Jaws, the bosoms could have referred to any and all of Meyer’s starlets but everyone knew the square jaw he was referring to could only belong to Charles Napier. After a stint in the army, Napier became a teacher and then got the acting bug. Russ Meyer recognized that his cartoonish grin and jutting chin made a perfect complement to the bigger-than-life women he cast in his films so gave Napier his first starring roles in Cherry Harry & Raquel, Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls (both 1970), and Supervixens (1975). Napier was well-remembered in the original Star Trek episode The Way To Eden as the paradise-seeking hippie Adam and soon become an in-demand and familiar character actor in movies and TV and his growly...
- 10/6/2011
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Charles Napier, an iconic character actor who specialized in playing stern authority figures and various tough guy roles in an acting career in film and television that spanned more than four decades, passed away today at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital in Bakersfield, CA. He was 75.
Born in 1936 in Scottsville, Kentucky, Napier served in the U.S. Army in the 11th Airborne Division before becoming an actor in the late 1960's. One of Napier's first acting roles was playing a space hippie on the Star Trek original series episode "A Way to Eden." He later became a favorite actor of director Russ Meyer and appeared in his films Cherry, Harry, and Racquel!, The Seven Minutes, Supervixens, and Meyer's mind-blowing magnum opus Beyond the Valley of the Dolls [...]...
Born in 1936 in Scottsville, Kentucky, Napier served in the U.S. Army in the 11th Airborne Division before becoming an actor in the late 1960's. One of Napier's first acting roles was playing a space hippie on the Star Trek original series episode "A Way to Eden." He later became a favorite actor of director Russ Meyer and appeared in his films Cherry, Harry, and Racquel!, The Seven Minutes, Supervixens, and Meyer's mind-blowing magnum opus Beyond the Valley of the Dolls [...]...
- 10/6/2011
- by BAADASSSSS!
- Geeks of Doom
Fox Searchlight is putting the finishing touches on a package that will allow David O. Russell (The Fighter) to direct a feature about Russ Meyer, the maker of exploitation B-movies like Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! and Super Vixens. The deal would have a script written by Merritt Johnson. Johnson got his start as Russell's assistant on Three Kings, he recently co-wrote the celebrated HBO telepic Temple Grandin and scripted Lovelace, which will likely star James Franco and Kate Hudson in the leads.
Deadline reports that part of th deal involves getting rights to the Jimmy McDonough book Big Bosoms And Square Jaws: The Biography Of Russ Meyer, King Of The Sex Film. Meyer began crafting exploitation grindhouse-style films in the early 1960s featuring buxom actresses. He wrote, directed, produced and even distributed all of his films which he also owned the rights to until his death.
I like David O. Russell,...
Deadline reports that part of th deal involves getting rights to the Jimmy McDonough book Big Bosoms And Square Jaws: The Biography Of Russ Meyer, King Of The Sex Film. Meyer began crafting exploitation grindhouse-style films in the early 1960s featuring buxom actresses. He wrote, directed, produced and even distributed all of his films which he also owned the rights to until his death.
I like David O. Russell,...
- 3/18/2011
- by Tiberius
- GeekTyrant
Here’s good news for fans of cult filmmaker Russ Meyer. The life of times of the 60’s and 70’s sexploitation king is to receive the big screen treatment.
Deadline are reporting that The Fighter’s David O. Russell is being bandied around as a potential name to direct, and Fox Searchlight are currently in discussions to do a deal where the director’s former assistant on Three Kings, Merritt Johnson (now a scriptwriter and with a project about Deep Throat star Linda Lovelace readying for production), will adapt the book Big Bosoms And Square Jaws: The Biography Of Russ Meyer, King Of The Sex Film.
Meyer (who passed away in 2004, aged 82) was famous for directing, producing and writing a series of successful low-budget humorous and mildly satirical soft-core titles such as Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! and Super Vixens. He also made the trashy 1970 classic Beyond the Valley of the Dolls,...
Deadline are reporting that The Fighter’s David O. Russell is being bandied around as a potential name to direct, and Fox Searchlight are currently in discussions to do a deal where the director’s former assistant on Three Kings, Merritt Johnson (now a scriptwriter and with a project about Deep Throat star Linda Lovelace readying for production), will adapt the book Big Bosoms And Square Jaws: The Biography Of Russ Meyer, King Of The Sex Film.
Meyer (who passed away in 2004, aged 82) was famous for directing, producing and writing a series of successful low-budget humorous and mildly satirical soft-core titles such as Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! and Super Vixens. He also made the trashy 1970 classic Beyond the Valley of the Dolls,...
- 3/18/2011
- by Adam Lowes
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Russ Meyer made cheap, grimy and oddly effective movies filled with violence and astoundingly buxom women. Consequently, he was an inspiration to, possibly even a hero for, multiple generations of filmmakers, musicians and artists who worked outside the lines. He was a gold standard, really, and films like Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!; Supervixens; Up! and many more were great pictures for both exploitation fans and kids looking for some weird thrills in the days before the internet provided instant access to every possible human fantasy object. (And, yes, he directed Beyond the Valley of the Dolls from Roger Ebert's screenplay.) Now David O. Russell might make a film about Russ Meyer, who died in 2004 at age 82. Deadline [1] says that Fox Searchlight is working on a deal to buy the director's pitch for a film, with a script by Merritt Johnson (co-writer, Temple Grandin, and writer of the in-development Lovelace...
- 3/18/2011
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
Filed under: Movie News, Cinematical
Buxom babes and the big screen -- that was the mantra that made Russ Meyer famous.
The original indie director, who populated his films with big-bosomed women, beginning with 'The Immoral Mr. Teas' in 1959 (the same year that John Cassavetes released 'Shadows') and continuing through such wanton epics as 'Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!' and 'Super Vixens,' was the king of exploitation films in the early 1960s.
Now Deadline reports that Fox Searchlight is looking at a pitch package that would have David O. Russell directing the Meyer story -- depending on whether or not the studio can get the rights to the Jimmy McDonough book 'Big Bosoms and Square Jaws: The Biography of Russ Meyer, King of the Sex Film' -- with a script by Merritt Johnson, who co-wrote the HBO telepic 'Temple Grandin' and penned 'Lovelace,...
Buxom babes and the big screen -- that was the mantra that made Russ Meyer famous.
The original indie director, who populated his films with big-bosomed women, beginning with 'The Immoral Mr. Teas' in 1959 (the same year that John Cassavetes released 'Shadows') and continuing through such wanton epics as 'Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!' and 'Super Vixens,' was the king of exploitation films in the early 1960s.
Now Deadline reports that Fox Searchlight is looking at a pitch package that would have David O. Russell directing the Meyer story -- depending on whether or not the studio can get the rights to the Jimmy McDonough book 'Big Bosoms and Square Jaws: The Biography of Russ Meyer, King of the Sex Film' -- with a script by Merritt Johnson, who co-wrote the HBO telepic 'Temple Grandin' and penned 'Lovelace,...
- 3/18/2011
- by Harley W. Lond
- Moviefone
Filed under: Movie News, Cinematical
Buxom babes and the big screen -- that was the mantra that made Russ Meyer famous.
The original indie director, who populated his films with big-bosomed women, beginning with 'The Immoral Mr. Teas' in 1959 (the same year that John Cassavetes released 'Shadows') and continuing through such wanton epics as 'Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!' and 'Super Vixens,' was the king of exploitation films in the early 1960s.
Now Deadline reports that Fox Searchlight is looking at a pitch package that would have David O. Russell directing the Meyer story -- depending on whether or not the studio can get the rights to the Jimmy McDonough book 'Big Bosoms and Square Jaws: The Biography of Russ Meyer, King of the Sex Film' -- with a script by Merritt Johnson, who co-wrote the HBO telepic 'Temple Grandin' and penned 'Lovelace,...
Buxom babes and the big screen -- that was the mantra that made Russ Meyer famous.
The original indie director, who populated his films with big-bosomed women, beginning with 'The Immoral Mr. Teas' in 1959 (the same year that John Cassavetes released 'Shadows') and continuing through such wanton epics as 'Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!' and 'Super Vixens,' was the king of exploitation films in the early 1960s.
Now Deadline reports that Fox Searchlight is looking at a pitch package that would have David O. Russell directing the Meyer story -- depending on whether or not the studio can get the rights to the Jimmy McDonough book 'Big Bosoms and Square Jaws: The Biography of Russ Meyer, King of the Sex Film' -- with a script by Merritt Johnson, who co-wrote the HBO telepic 'Temple Grandin' and penned 'Lovelace,...
- 3/18/2011
- by Harley W. Lond
- Cinematical
Fox Searchlight is in negotiations for a pitch package involving a biopic about famed exploitation filmmaker Russ Meyer, which "The Fighter" helmer David O. Russell would direct reports Deadline.
The deal, still being worked on, involves scoring the rights to Jimmy McDonough's book "Big Bosoms And Square Jaws". "Temple Grandin" and "Lovelace" scribe Merritt Johnson, a former assistant of Russell on "Three Kings", is penning the script.
In the early 60's, as the sexual revolution began, Meyer made a name for himself making grindhouse films with buxom actresses - films that he wrote, directed, produced and even distributed. Amongst his more famous efforts were "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!," "Up!," "Super Vixens" and the Roger Ebert-scripted "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls".
The deal, still being worked on, involves scoring the rights to Jimmy McDonough's book "Big Bosoms And Square Jaws". "Temple Grandin" and "Lovelace" scribe Merritt Johnson, a former assistant of Russell on "Three Kings", is penning the script.
In the early 60's, as the sexual revolution began, Meyer made a name for himself making grindhouse films with buxom actresses - films that he wrote, directed, produced and even distributed. Amongst his more famous efforts were "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!," "Up!," "Super Vixens" and the Roger Ebert-scripted "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls".
- 3/18/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Exclusive: Fox Searchlight is negotiating to acquire a pitch package for The Fighter helmer David O. Russell to direct a feature about Russ Meyer, the maker of exploitation B-movies like Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! and Super Vixens. The script will be written by Merritt Johnson. Formerly Russell's assistant on Three Kings, Johnson co-wrote the celebrated HBO telepic Temple Grandin and scripted Lovelace, the pic about Deep Throat star Linda Lovelace and her manipulative husband Chuck Traynor. That film has James Franco and Kate Hudson circling the leads and Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman directing. The deal to tell the Meyer story is being hashed out, and part of it involves getting rights to the Jimmy McDonough book Big Bosoms And Square Jaws: The Biography Of Russ Meyer, King Of The Sex Film. Meyer began plying his trade in exploitation fare in the early 1960s, as the country was loosening...
- 3/18/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Michel Levesque worked in the film industry as a production designer and art director from the late 1960s. He was best known as writer and director for the 1971 biker horror film Werewolves on Wheels.
Levesque was born in Pennsville, New Jersey on August 22, 1943. He moved to Los Angeles in the early 1960s and began his film career working as an assistant on Roger Corman’s 1967 cult classic The Trip. He teamed with David M. Kaufman to write and direct Werewolves on Wheels, and also directed the 1972 women’s prison exploitation film Sweet Sugar. He worked as art director on several Russ Meyer films in the mid-1970s, including Supervixens (1975), Up! (1976), and Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens (1979). Levesque also worked as an art director and production designer on the films Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks (1976) and The Incredible Melting Man (1977).
Levesque died of cancer at his home in...
Levesque was born in Pennsville, New Jersey on August 22, 1943. He moved to Los Angeles in the early 1960s and began his film career working as an assistant on Roger Corman’s 1967 cult classic The Trip. He teamed with David M. Kaufman to write and direct Werewolves on Wheels, and also directed the 1972 women’s prison exploitation film Sweet Sugar. He worked as art director on several Russ Meyer films in the mid-1970s, including Supervixens (1975), Up! (1976), and Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens (1979). Levesque also worked as an art director and production designer on the films Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks (1976) and The Incredible Melting Man (1977).
Levesque died of cancer at his home in...
- 6/22/2010
- by Harris Lentz
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
One of the most chilling bad guys I've ever seen on film is in a soft-core sex flick -- a Russ Meyer movie, even. If you think of Meyer only as the director who featured supremely large-chested women in his films, you probably haven't seen his 1975 film Supervixens. Sure, there are plenty of voluptuous females in the movie, and some comedy moments, but there's also Charles Napier, and his character is truly villainous.
Supervixens is about an ordinary guy, Clint, who's married to the title character, a bad-tempered tease who is brutally murdered by an even nastier cop, Harry Sledge (Napier). Clint -- who is honestly the least memorable part of the movie -- flees town to avoid Sledge, and ends up encountering all kinds of delightful women whose names begin with "Super," like Supersoul, SuperCherry, and SuperHaji. His soulmate, though, is the amazing SuperAngel, played by the same actress as SuperVixen,...
Supervixens is about an ordinary guy, Clint, who's married to the title character, a bad-tempered tease who is brutally murdered by an even nastier cop, Harry Sledge (Napier). Clint -- who is honestly the least memorable part of the movie -- flees town to avoid Sledge, and ends up encountering all kinds of delightful women whose names begin with "Super," like Supersoul, SuperCherry, and SuperHaji. His soulmate, though, is the amazing SuperAngel, played by the same actress as SuperVixen,...
- 10/15/2009
- by Jette Kernion
- Cinematical
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