Beneath the Valley of the Ultravixens (5 Stars)

I've always been a fan of Russ Meyer. He changed his style several times over the years, but I like all his films. If I were to rank his films, I'd put "Beneath the Valley of the Ultravixens" in third place, after "Faster Pussycat Kill Kill" and "Supervixens".

Unlike in "Supervixens", the women aren't called Super, but I think you'll agree that everything about Junkyard Sal is super. Sadly, this was the actress June Mack's only film. Five years later she was shot dead in the street. There are various rumours floating around about the motive. Most common is the story that she was the target of a crazed drug dealer, but the killing looked so professional that others think she was the victim of a professional hit man. We'll never know the truth.

The film is narrated by Stuart Lancaster, appearing in his sixth film directed by Russ Meyer. For most of the film we think he's just a random off-screen character, but in the last five minutes we discover that he's Lute, the farmer in "Supervixens". This means that "Beneath the Valley of the Ultravixens" is a quasi-sequel.

Russ Meyer never made another film, apart from the mockumentary "Pandora Peaks", which he seems to have stitched together in a hurry. It's a film I like to ignore. I haven't watched it for 10 years, and it's possible I'll never watch it again. Time will tell.

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