Supervixens (1975)

Interesting facts

• Box office: $17M
• Budget: $100K
• Earned 170× its budget
• Filmed in: California

Supervixens is a 1975 American film directed by American filmmaker Russ Meyer. The cast features Meyer regulars Charles Napier, Uschi Digard, and Haji. The film also features Shari Eubank in one of her only two film roles and Christy Hartburg in her only film role.

Production

Meyer's previous two films had failed at the box office - The Seven Minutes was a straight drama about censorship, done for 20th Century Fox, and Black Snake was a blaxploitation film. He originally intended to follow this with Foxy (starring his then-wife Edy Williams) but the marriage ended and "I just couldn't picture myself making twenty films starring Edy Williams". He was also worried about the Supreme Court decision against pornography.

"Those years were very confusing to me," said Meyer. "But instead of rushing off and throwing myself out the window, I was able to psychoanalyze myself and discern what was best for me. I looked myself square in the face and realized I couldn't do everything."

Meyer decided to return to the parody sex comedies which had made his reputation so he made what he described as a "sort of sequel" to his 1968 hit Vixen!.

"I'm back to big bosoms, square jaws, lotsa action and the most sensational sex you ever saw," he said. "I'm back to what I do best - erotic, comedic sex, sex, sex - and I'll never stray again."

"I don't want to do too much yakking," he said. "If there was too much plot, too much dialogue, the story would get in the way of the action. I want a film like an Al Capp cartoon where you know right off who's good and who's bad."

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