{"id":10608,"date":"2025-01-13T18:44:58","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T23:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=10608"},"modified":"2025-01-13T18:44:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T23:44:59","slug":"russ-meyers-sexploitation-trilogy-vixen-supervixens-and-beneath-the-valley-of-the-ultravixens-set-for-blu-ray-release-from-severin-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=10608","title":{"rendered":"Russ Meyer\u2019s Sexploitation Trilogy \u2018Vixen,\u2019 \u2018Supervixens\u2019 and \u2018Beneath the Valley of the Ultravixens\u2019 Set for Blu-ray Release From Severin Films"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Three films by Russ Meyer<\/a>, the sexploitation director film critic Roger Ebert described as \u201cthe ultimate auteur,\u201d are coming to physical media in December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The estate of the pioneering independent filmmaker has reached an agreement with media company\u00a0Severin Films<\/a>\u00a0to distribute three of his signature films, \u201cVixen,\u201d \u201cSupervixens\u201d and \u201cBeneath the Valley of the Ultravixens<\/a>,\u201d on home video for the first time in decades. Working in collaboration with Janice Cowart and The Russ Meyer Trust, Severin\u2019s discs \u2014 available in 4K UHD, Blu-ray and DVD \u2014 mark the first remastering of Meyer\u2019s films from the original camera negatives since the early 1980s, and each will be accompanied by both new and archival special features curated exclusively for these releases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs a filmmaker, distributor and First Amendment warrior, Russ Meyer is one of the last great icons of American cinema,\u201d David Gregory, co-founder and CEO of Severin Films said in a statement. \u201cWe\u2019re grateful for the support of The Russ Meyer Trust as we begin what we hope will be an ongoing and bountiful partnership. The Severin Films team is enormously proud of our work in restoring these legendary titles for a new generation of fans and look forward to bringing Russ\u2019 classic catalog back to the bosom of cin\u00e9astes everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meyer began his career as a director in 1959 with \u201cThe Immoral Mr. Teas,\u201d a comedy that grossed more than $1 million against its $24,000 budget, and earned him the title of \u201cKing of the Nudies.\u201d Within five years, he transitioned into more serious filmmaking with projects like \u201cMudhoney\u201d and \u201cFaster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!,\u201d which would go on to become cult classics. He would eventually direct \u201cBeyond the Valley of the Dolls,\u201d a parodic sequel to \u201cValley of the Dolls\u201d written by Roger Ebert, who became a close friend and collaborator throughout the rest of Meyer\u2019s life. During his more than 50-year career, he directed over 20 films and a dozen shorts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though Meyer famously retained all rights to the films he produced, the fate of the writer\/producer\/director\/cinematographer\/distributor\u2019s landmark catalog became uncertain after he passed away in 2004, and in the interim remained virtually unseen and unattainable by modern audiences. Severin Films approached The Russ Meyer Charitable Trust in 2023 by reaching out to his longtime executive assistant Janice Cowart \u2014 by then the last remaining trustee responsible for herculean preservation efforts in the years following Russ\u2019 death \u2014 with a passionate pitch to restore and release many of his films.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Severin promised to spare no expense, archeological effort or technical wizardry to present these works via the gold standard they richly deserve and celebrate Meyer\u2019s extraordinary legacy. \u201cVixen,\u201d \u201cSupervixens\u201d and \u201cBeneath the Valley of the Ultravixens\u201d mark the inaugural three films in this partnership. Their artwork will feature the same red \u201cBosomania\u201d frames used on earlier releases of the film, in tribute to the iconography Meyer created while still alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRuss Meyer\u2019s biggest requirement was quality,\u201d Cowart said. \u201cRM Films is overjoyed that Severin Films took on this gargantuan effort to meet Russ\u2019 expectations, and we are delighted his films will once again be available.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cVixen,\u201d \u201cSupervixens\u201d and \u201cBeneath the Valley of the Ultravixens\u201d are now available for sale on the\u00a0Severin Films website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: VARIETY Three films by Russ Meyer, the sexploitation director film critic Roger Ebert described as \u201cthe ultimate auteur,\u201d are coming to physical media in December. The estate of the pioneering independent filmmaker has reached an agreement with media company\u00a0Severin Films\u00a0to distribute three of his signature films, \u201cVixen,\u201d \u201cSupervixens\u201d and \u201cBeneath the Valley of the Ultravixens,\u201d… Read More »Russ Meyer\u2019s Sexploitation Trilogy \u2018Vixen,\u2019 \u2018Supervixens\u2019 and \u2018Beneath the Valley of the Ultravixens\u2019 Set for Blu-ray Release From Severin Films<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10610,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10608\/revisions\/10610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}