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'''''Supervixens''''' (1975), is a story of a love-triangle turned love-quadrangle. The film is occasionally very violent and is from director [[Russ Meyer]]'s surreal period which features Meyer regulars Charles Napier, [[Uschi Digard]], and [[Haji]], the film also features [[Shari Eubank]] in one of her few film roles and [[Christy Hartburg]].  
'''''Supervixens''''' (1975), is a story of a love-triangle turned love-quadrangle. An incredibly violent film from director [[Russ Meyer]]'s surreal period which features Meyer regulars Charles Napier, [[Uschi Digard]], and [[Haji]]. The film also features [[Shari Eubank]] in one of her only two film roles ever and [[Christy Hartburg]] in her only film role ever.  


==Synopsis==
==Plot==
Gas station attendant Clint Ramsey, who works at Martin Bormann's Super Service in the desert, finds himself too irresistible to a series of women, all of whom have the word "Super" in their given names. In the beginning, he is married to the large breasted hypersexual woman, the eponymous SuperAngel ([[Shari Eubank]]), who constantly harasses him at work. She orders him home at once when she calls Clint and overhears a large breasted customer, SuperLorna ([[Christy Hartburg]]), hits on him at work. Clint finds SuperAngel's constant accusations and arguing a turnoff and, back at home, they fight after he rejects her aggressive advances.


Gas station attendant Clint Ramsey, who works at Martin Bormann's Super Service in the desert, is married to an unhappy nymphomaniac (the eponymous SuperAngel) who constantly is harassing him at work. Clint finds SuperAngel's demanding sexual nature and constant arguing a turnoff, and back at home, they fight after he rejects her advances.
Clint goes to relax in a pub, where the bartender is the very scantily clad SuperHaji ([[Haji]]). She offers him a room key, but he declines because her breasts are not as big as his wife's. Meanwhile, a tease, SuperAngel picks up and beds the well-hung but impotent motorcycle cop Harry Sledge (a character who earlier appeared in Meyer's ''Cherry, Harry & Raquel!''), who murders her after she mocks his inability to perform. Sledge then tries to pin the murder on Clint. Clint claims being in the pub all night, but SuperHaji has her revenge on him by refusing to confirm his aliby. Clint is then forced to flee.


A tease, SuperAngel picks up and beds the well-hung but impotent motorcycle cop Harry Sledge (a character who earlier appeared in Meyer's ''[[Cherry, Harry & Raquel!]]''), who murders her after she mocks his inability to perform. Sledge then tries to pin the murder on Clint, forcing him to flee.  
In his rush to escape, our hapless hero hitchhikes a ride. During the drive, the driver's large breasted girlfriend, SuperCherry ([[Sharon Kelly]]), comes on to him and puts his hand over her left breast, but he pulls his hand back. She then starts giving him a handjob over his pants, but he pulls her hand back. She soon starts again but he pulls her hand back once more. The driver takes offence by Clint rejecting his girlfriend, but she says he probably just wants a closer contact. She reaches with her hand this time touching him directly inside his pants, but he pulls her hand out and asks the driver to let him get out. The driver follows him out and robs him. After being left lying down injured, Clint is saved by an old farmer who agrees to give him a place to stay and work. Alas, the farmer has a huge breasted younger Austrian mail-order bride, SuperSoul ([[Uschi Digard]]), who is hypersexual. After taking her older husband to the limit, she comes knocking on Clint's door at night. She immediately pushes him into his bed where she proceeds to mount and rape him, until he manages to overpower her. However, she does the same the following day and this time overpowering him after jumping him from behind in the barn. After a while, the farmer spots them, chases our hero away and punches his own wife. Later on, a deaf African American, SuperEula ([[Deborah McGuire]]), convinces him to run off with her from her (inexplicably Caucasian) father.


In his odyssey of escape, our hapless hero is sexually harassed by various voluptuous nymphomaniacs, all of whom have the word "Super" in their Christian names. Clint eventually meets up with SuperVixen at a roadside diner. SuperVixen is (inexplicably) the reincarnation of SuperAngel (whose ghost comments on the impending action from her perch on a bedspring balanced on a mesa). Soon, SuperAngel and Clint's nemesis, Harry Sledge, arrives on the scene. Harry clearly is a psychotic, and he plots to end the bliss of the happy couple.  
Clint eventually meets up with SuperVixen at a roadside diner. SuperVixen is (inexplicably) the reincarnation of SuperAngel (whose ghost comments on the impending action from her perch on a bedspring balanced on a mesa). Soon, their common nemesis, Harry Sledge, arrives on the scene and plots ending the bliss of the now happy couple.  


There is no indication that Harry has overcome his impotence; his desire is not for SuperAngel, but merely to wreck their lives. Rather, the sadistic Harry exists in the same thematic sense as the character Evil in the medieval mystery plays. Despite Harry's physical and moral impotence, Meyer's movie does manage to end, literally, with an explosive climax.
Despite Harry's physical and moral impotence, the films ends with a literal explosive climax.
 
==Cinema semiotics==
Meyer makes the cartoonish nature of the film explicit towards the end, when the impending death of Clint's antagonist is signalled by the "Beep-beep!" sound of the Road Runner, which always introduces imminent disaster for Wile E. Coyote in the Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner cartoon series. The antagonist breaks the Fourth Wall between the fictional world and the audience with a facial gesture showing he is resigned to his fate.
 
==End credits==
As a humorous sidenote, in the end credits of the film the names of all participants have been changed either partially (Uschi Bristol instead of Digard) or completely (Brown Pants, C. Unt). Interestingly, Shari Eubank is credited as 'Shari Sheridan,' the initials of which would be [SS a possible further allusion to a Nazi subplot featured in the film.
 
==Meyer trademarks==
As a combat photographer in [[World War II]], Russ Meyer made many friends and acquaintances in Europe, and later claimed the war years were the best years of his life.  Meyer used running jokes and recurring themes in some of his films which were unique to the [[veteran]]'s sense of humor. In ''Supervixens'', these include:
*The use of German marching tunes.
*Actor Henry Rowland appears as Martin Bormann, who was Adolf Hitler's personal secretary, rumored to have escaped Allied justice for decades and the subject of many "sightings".
*The Bormann character refers to SuperAngel as the ''Führer''.
 
==Supervixens in pop culture==
*The song "Supervixen" featured on the |debut album of rock band Garbage was named after the film.
*The band Queens of the Stone Age recently released a music video for the song "3's and 7's" featuring a plot based on ''Supervixens''


==External links==
==External links==
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073768/ ''Supervixens''] at the Internet Movie Database
* ''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073768/ Supervixens]'' at the Internet Movie Database
* [http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/29/supervixens.html ''Russ Meyer on Supervixens'' by Gary Morris @ Bright Lights Films]
* [http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/29/supervixens.html ''Russ Meyer on Supervixens'' by Gary Morris @ Bright Lights Films]
* [http://www.dvdmaniacs.net/Reviews/Q-T/supervixens.html ''Review at DVD Maniacs'']
* [http://www.dvdmaniacs.net/Reviews/Q-T/supervixens.html ''Review at DVD Maniacs'']
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Revision as of 14:32, 1 December 2007

Supervixens (1975), is a story of a love-triangle turned love-quadrangle. An incredibly violent film from director Russ Meyer's surreal period which features Meyer regulars Charles Napier, Uschi Digard, and Haji. The film also features Shari Eubank in one of her only two film roles ever and Christy Hartburg in her only film role ever.

Plot

Gas station attendant Clint Ramsey, who works at Martin Bormann's Super Service in the desert, finds himself too irresistible to a series of women, all of whom have the word "Super" in their given names. In the beginning, he is married to the large breasted hypersexual woman, the eponymous SuperAngel (Shari Eubank), who constantly harasses him at work. She orders him home at once when she calls Clint and overhears a large breasted customer, SuperLorna (Christy Hartburg), hits on him at work. Clint finds SuperAngel's constant accusations and arguing a turnoff and, back at home, they fight after he rejects her aggressive advances.

Clint goes to relax in a pub, where the bartender is the very scantily clad SuperHaji (Haji). She offers him a room key, but he declines because her breasts are not as big as his wife's. Meanwhile, a tease, SuperAngel picks up and beds the well-hung but impotent motorcycle cop Harry Sledge (a character who earlier appeared in Meyer's Cherry, Harry & Raquel!), who murders her after she mocks his inability to perform. Sledge then tries to pin the murder on Clint. Clint claims being in the pub all night, but SuperHaji has her revenge on him by refusing to confirm his aliby. Clint is then forced to flee.

In his rush to escape, our hapless hero hitchhikes a ride. During the drive, the driver's large breasted girlfriend, SuperCherry (Sharon Kelly), comes on to him and puts his hand over her left breast, but he pulls his hand back. She then starts giving him a handjob over his pants, but he pulls her hand back. She soon starts again but he pulls her hand back once more. The driver takes offence by Clint rejecting his girlfriend, but she says he probably just wants a closer contact. She reaches with her hand this time touching him directly inside his pants, but he pulls her hand out and asks the driver to let him get out. The driver follows him out and robs him. After being left lying down injured, Clint is saved by an old farmer who agrees to give him a place to stay and work. Alas, the farmer has a huge breasted younger Austrian mail-order bride, SuperSoul (Uschi Digard), who is hypersexual. After taking her older husband to the limit, she comes knocking on Clint's door at night. She immediately pushes him into his bed where she proceeds to mount and rape him, until he manages to overpower her. However, she does the same the following day and this time overpowering him after jumping him from behind in the barn. After a while, the farmer spots them, chases our hero away and punches his own wife. Later on, a deaf African American, SuperEula (Deborah McGuire), convinces him to run off with her from her (inexplicably Caucasian) father.

Clint eventually meets up with SuperVixen at a roadside diner. SuperVixen is (inexplicably) the reincarnation of SuperAngel (whose ghost comments on the impending action from her perch on a bedspring balanced on a mesa). Soon, their common nemesis, Harry Sledge, arrives on the scene and plots ending the bliss of the now happy couple.

Despite Harry's physical and moral impotence, the films ends with a literal explosive climax.

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