Supervixens: Meyer's Cartoon Excess at Full Throttle

Fri, 15 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000

By 1975 Russ Meyer had nothing left to prove about commerce and everything left to prove about how far he could push his own style before it broke. Supervixens is the answer, and it is Meyer at his most Meyer — the fastest cutting, the broadest caricature, the most cartoonish landscape of impossibly proportioned women and cretinous men, all of it running at a pitch that never once drops below hysterical. I want to look at it as film history and as craft, because the film is instructive precisely at the point where its cartoon logic collides with something genuinely nasty, and that collision is the most interesting problem in Meyer’s whole catalogue.

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Supervixens: Meyer's Cartoon Excess at Full Throttle