The year after Russ Meyer’s Beyond the Valley of the Dolls was a smash hit for 20th Century Fox, he made The Seven Minutes. It was not a hit and wound up being his last movie for a major studio. It’s easy to see why it was not embraced by audiences as it’s an interminable bore ( Read more... )

This was Russ Meyer’s next to last film. It’s filled with all the director’s trademarks: Big boobs, lots of sex, surprising violence and rapid fire editing. The plot is simultaneously paper thin and overly complex, so I won’t even bother going into detail. You should just know that Raven de la Croix has lots of sex outdoors after killing the ( Read more... )

Russ Meyer directed this chunk of Southern Fried Gothic about a drifter named Calif (short for California) who gets a job as a hired hand working on a farm owned by the sweet Hannah Brenshaw (Antoinette Christiani) and her Uncle Lute (Stuart Lancaster). Of course her boozing womanizing husband Sidney (played to the hilt by Hal Hopper) doesn’t like ( Read more... )

When 20th Century Fox let legendary bosom obsessed cult director Russ Meyer and film critic cum novice screenwriter Roger Ebert loose in Hollywood and gave them free reign to make an unauthorized sequel/send-up of Jacqueline Susanne’s hit The Valley of the Dolls, the results were nothing less than amazing.  The film follows the hit female band The ( Read more... )