5 Movies Marketed Entirely On Boobs

3. Supervixens (1975)

3 - supervixens One of the kings of exploitation movies, Russ Meyer was once confronted by an angry woman who accused him of being "nothing but a breast man". Meyer replied: "That's only the half of it". Meyer cast voluptous women in major roles in a series of low-budget, but highly popular films. Not out-and-out pornography, but revenge flicks or trippy road movies, they all shared Meyer's love of large breasts. You could write an entire film studies course on the politics of misogny vs female empowerment in his films, but one thing was always true - the poster for any Russ Meyer film would leave you in no doubt that it was for a Russ Meyer film. By 1975 the marketing teams didn't need to do much more than put one of the stars on the poster of Supervixens, complete with the gratuitous tagline of "Too much for one movie".
 
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