Vixen!

Vixen! (1968)

Is she woman... or animal?

In a Canadian mountain resort, Vixen Palmer resides with her naive pilot husband Tom. While he's away flying in tourists, she sleeps with practically everybody including a husband and his wife, and even her biker brother. However, the only one she won't bed is her brother's friend... who is Black.

Date of release
1968-10-15
TMDB
5.5 / 10 (115)
Runtime
1h 12m
Genres
Drama
Director
Russ Meyer

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Box office: $8M
  • Budget: $73K
  • Earned 109.6× its budget
  • Filmed in: California

Vixen! is a 1968 American satiric softcore sexploitation film directed by Russ Meyer, co-written by Meyer and Anthony James Ryan, and starring Erica Gavin as the title character, who sexually manipulates everyone she meets. The story's taboo-violations mount quickly, including themes of incest and racism.

Production

Erica Gavin was a dancer in clubs who knew women who had acted in other Meyer films. She answered an advertisement seeking actors for Vixen and was cast.

Meyer recalled, "Bravely I went up to the location for Vixen without a leading lady and left a couple of my henchmen to try to find somebody. It's always difficult. But Erica had a curious quality about her. She didn't have the greatest body, you know. She didn't have the up-thrust breasts like the others."

The film was shot in Miranda, California. Many of the opening scenes were filmed in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

During the film, assistant director George Costello had a relationship with Gavin, which led to the end of Costello's professional relationship with Meyer. Erica Gavin, on the other hand, went on to shoot one more movie with Meyer.

Meyer said the sex scene between Vixen and her brother "was the best of them all. She [Erica Gavin] really displayed an animal quality that I've never been able to achieve before – the way she grunted and hung in there and did her lines. It was a really remarkable job ... I've done a lot of jokey screwing but there's something about Erica and her brother that was just remarkable ... [it] really represents the way I like to screw."

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