The Breast Of Russ Meyer: His Top 9 Movies

1. Beneath The Valley Of The Ultra Vixens (1979)

Screen Shot 2013-07-20 at 11.27.01 My favourite Meyer film on the basis that it is his funniest and most satirical, wildly saucy and totally over the top. The film introduces us to the residents of Small Town USA. Our main protagonists are Lavonia and Lamar, a young married couple. Everything should be going well for them but there is a hitch in the relationship. Lavonia is possibly the biggest nympho in the history of filmdom and Lamar only likes anal sex much to Lavonia's chagrin. The movie chronicles Lavonia's attempts to convert Lamar to love of straight vaginal sex. Along the way, we meet many interesting characters. There is fugitive Nazi Martin Bormann who likes to play rousing Nazi anthems on his piano and then have sex in a coffin. Junkyard Sal is a massive black woman with super-gigantic knockers who has sex with anyone who looks sideways at her. There is a garbage van man called Mr Peterbilt who seems to be Lavonia's own personal f**k toy. We meet a flagrantly gay dentist - Asa Lavender - who tries to rape Lamar while Lavonia is up to serious double edged dildo action with his dental nurse. Eventually Lamar capitulates to the straight sex charms of Sister Eufala Roop - an evangelist radio host who offers solace and succour to the poor unwashed masses. Did I mention her boobs are triple Z cups? Eufala with her ample charms finally converts Lamar to vaginal sex and Lamar and Lavonia go off to live their lives in sexual ecstasy. Unlike the nasty streak of violence in SuperVixens, Beneath the Valley of the Ultravixens, is pure comedic bliss. The plot - converting a man from anal to vaginal sex - doesn't have much meat to it, but it is the characters in Ultravixens that steal the show, mainly with their all consuming randiness - special shout outs go to Ann Marie as the Brobdinagian breasted Sister Eufala Roop and Meyer's muse Kitten Natividad who plays the dual role of Lavonia and stripper Lola Langusta. Some people have criticised the film for being so crude, but I find it cartoonish and great fun - a piss take of a small town where everyone is bonking everyone else. Meyer's idiosyncratic camera work is in evidence here, the film moves at a very fast pace and there is a lot of focus onto Kitten Natividad's 70s porno bush. Meyer is fixated on it, a bit like Jess Franco and Lina Romay's crotch. The whole thing is a blast from beginning to end and I rank it at the top of Meyer's film oeuvre simply because it is shamelessly rude and endlessly amusing. It will, for sure, put a smile on your face.
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My first film watched was Carrie aged 2 on my dad's knee. Educated at The University of St Andrews and Trinity College Dublin. Fan of Arthouse, Exploitation, Horror, Euro Trash, Giallo, New French Extremism. Weaned at the bosom of a Russ Meyer starlet. The bleaker, artier or sleazier the better!