Supervixens - eruption
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Supervixens - eruption |
| Original title | Supervixes |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1975 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Russ Meyer |
| script | Russ Meyer |
| production | Russ Meyer |
| music | William Loose |
| camera | Russ Meyer |
| cut | Russ Meyer |
| occupation | |
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Supervixens - Eruption is a sexploitation film directed by Russ Meyer from 1975 . Meyer described the film as “ the sum total of all my films ” during the 1974 cut and after its release as the third best sex film after The Last Tango in Paris and Flowers Without Scent .
action
The assistant at a petrol station called "Martin Bormann's Super Service", Clint Ramsey, is exposed to constant attempts at seduction by customers. His hypersexual friend SuperAngel becomes madly jealous when her phone call with Clint is interrupted by the customer SuperLorna. When he wants to confront SuperAngel at home, there is first sex, then a physical argument. Police officer Harry Sledge, called by a neighbor, has SuperAngel taken to the hospital and threatens Clint.
At the hospital, SuperAngel claims Harry was beaten up by Clint and offers him something in exchange for his protection. Back in the house, she denied Clint entry and turned to Harry, who was already there. He willingly gives in to seduction, but turns out to be impotent. SuperAngel mocks him, whereupon he kills her out of frustration.
In a pub, Clint meets the barmaid SuperHaji, who feels reset after a failed attempt at seduction because he described SuperAngel's breasts as larger than hers. When Clint's boss Bormann arrives and suspects him of the murder of SuperAngel, SuperHaji denies him the alibi in revenge, which forces Clint to flee.
As a hitchhiker, he makes his way west and is taken by the couple Cal MacKinney and SuperCherry. SuperCherry also tries to seduce him, but he also resists her. He is beaten up by her husband, robbed and both left in a parking lot. An old farmer picks up the injured Clint and takes him to his farm. To thank him, he decides to help the farmer for a week.
The farmer is married to the much younger SuperSoul, whom he met through a catalog . On the first night, the - partly German-speaking - Swiss woman storms into Clint's room to have sex with him. Clint throws her out without further ado. On his last day on the farm, he is attacked again by her in the barn's hayloft because the farmer cannot satisfy her. Clint cannot resist the apparently physically superior woman and is driven from the farm by the farmer who surprises the two of them.
On the run, Clint quartered in a motel. The motel manager Luther threatens Clint with a gun if he should give his deaf daughter SuperEula a hair. As soon as the hotel manager has left the premises, SuperEula asks Clint for help with her SUV. During a jaunt through the desert, she also drops all her covers, whereupon the two are immediately followed by SuperEula's father and the sheriff. Clint and SuperEula go their separate ways when another driver takes him and SuperEula meets a weight lifter in the middle of the desert with whom she has sex and suddenly can talk.
Clint finds his last stop at a diner with an attached gas station, which is operated by SuperVixen - a reincarnation of SuperAngel. Since, unlike all other women, she doesn't want to have sex right away, they both fall in love. The slow approach is only undercut by surreal shots of the naked SuperAngel, bleeding from the head.
Surprisingly, Harry Sledge turns up at the gas station that Clint is now working at, but is not recognized by him. Clint then accepts Harry's invitation to the fishing trip. When he knocks on Harry's motel room the next morning, he is put off until the next day, whereupon Clint goes on an errand trip to the next town. Using a pretext, Harry then succeeds in luring the now defenseless SuperVixen into his car and kidnapping it. He brings her to a mountain where he has set up an ambush for Clint, who comes to rescue her from her predicament, with the SuperVixen nailed to the ground with her arms and legs wide apart as a decoy. When Clint arrives and tries to climb the mountain, Harry pelts him with dynamite sticks. But despite dynamite, gun shots and knife wounds, Harry can't do anything against the lovers. The last stick of dynamite, which as a supposed dud does not want to explode between Clint and SuperVixen's legs as planned by the villain, surprisingly ignites later, just as Harry puts it next to him to the remaining dynamite, which means his well-deserved end.
criticism
“An idiosyncratic foray through the depths of sex cinema and primitive crime novels, staged by Russ Meyer, whose crude erotic fantasies here for the first time reach the dimensions of a Hollywood film. As a continuation and enhancement of ' Ohne Gnade - Schätze ', the film accumulates all the clichés of speculative entertainment cinema in a drastic and at the same time parodic way.
"The story about a young man on the run from the police to the west served Meyer primarily to mock the sexual longings of his viewers by presenting them to them - vastly exaggerated and maliciously pointed - on the screen: Sex and sadism in Pure culture, presented in a snappy way. "
"Brutal, disturbing and full of irony."
background
Filming
Filming took place in Arizona and California , Quartzsite and Palo Verde . Meyer cast the film in addition to its regular actors Charles Napier , Uschi Digard and Haji also with acting debutants : Charles Pitts played his first leading role, Shari Eubank and Christy Hartburg had their first film appearances. However, they could not use the success of the film and establish themselves in the film industry. Pitts played minor supporting roles in films until the mid- 1980s . After Supervixens Eubank could only record one appearance in Chesty Anderson, USN , for Hartburg SuperLorna remained the only film role.
publication
The film was produced by Russ Meyer's company "RM Films International", which also released the film in US cinemas. The film was first shown on April 2, 1975 in Dallas , in Germany it was released on April 20, 1979.
The Franco-German cultural broadcaster Arte broadcast the film on the evening of April 6, 2006 in a trash film series and achieved a market share of 4.2 percent with 170,000 viewers. The channel's average market share was 0.7 percent in March.
National Socialism
This Meyer film also contains numerous references to the Nazis and the Second World War , in which he worked as a war correspondent . In addition to the marching music of the soundtrack , the gas station attendant, for whom Clint Ramsey works at the beginning of the film, is particularly noteworthy. Its petrol station is called "Martin Bormann's Super Service" and refers to the head of the party chancellery of the NSDAP with the rank of Reich Minister and close confidante of Adolf Hitler . Bormann's appearances in his repair car are accompanied by the march “Heil Hitler Dir” by the composer Bruno Schestak (1903 - around 1950). The film begins with the third and final verse of the march.
The myth about the historical Martin Bormann , who was sentenced to death “in absentia” at the Nuremberg trials , was based on the assumption that Bormann could have escaped and be in South America, where he was supposedly seen. Meyer caricatured this theory with his film character Bormann after the body of Bormann, who died by suicide in 1945, was found by chance in Berlin two years before the shooting.
Trivia
The American band Garbage named the first title on their debut album after Meyer's image of women, which is an example of the film's title: “ It's actually about this supervixen, this Russ Meyer-type woman. ”( Shirley Manson , German:“ It [the song] is about this supervix, this Russ Meyer type of woman . ”)
Web links
- Supervixens - Eruption in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Bright Lights Film Journal
- ^ A b David K Frasier: Russ Meyer - The Life an Films . McFarland & Company, Jefferson 1990, ISBN 0-7864-0472-8 , pp. 153 ff
- ↑ Supervixens - Eruption in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed on September 22, 2009
- ↑ Film review ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at arte.de, accessed on September 22, 2009
- ^ Film review on cinema.de, accessed on September 22, 2009
- ^ Attack of the Supervixens , Focus Online , April 24, 2006, accessed September 22, 2009
- ^ "The Face" (magazine) ( memento from October 25, 2009 on WebCite ) September 1996; Retrieved October 25, 2009
