Severin Films Reveal Special Features For Russ Meyer ‘Vixen Trilogy’

Severin Films today announced the full list of Special Features for their release of Russ Meyer’s ‘Vixen Trilogy‘ making their Worldwide UHD/Blu-ray Premiere in January 2025.

Hailed by The San Francisco Chronicle as “a pop visionary,” Meyer’s legendary trilogy, consisting of Vixen, Supervixens and Beneath The Valley Of The Ultravixens. All coming with nine hours of Severin-curated bonus materials shine a spotlight on each film’s historic critical and commercial success, nationwide censorship battles and notoriety as landmark American independent films.

Vixen
Amid the cultural chaos of 1968 and armed with a budget of only $70,000,producer/ director/ cinematographer Russ Meyer transcended sexploitation by crafting this “bosomacious melodrama” (Time Magazine) about racism, communism, bush pilots, draft dodgers and a ferociously free-spirited wife named Vixen (the incredible Erica Gavin of Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls and Caged Heat). Despite attempts at censorship that included one of the first-ever X ratings and 23 separate U.S. prosecutions for obscenity, it became one of the year’s top-grossing movies, forever transformed independent film and remains the creative template for Meyer’s unapologetic vision of American cinema. Vixen is now scanned in 4K from the original negative restored by The Museum of Modern Art with 3+ hours of new and archival Special Features.

Special Features for VIXEN
UHD:
• Archival Audio Commentary with Co-Writer/Producer/Cinematographer/CoEditor/Director Russ Meyer
• Audio Commentary with Actress Erica Gavin
• Trailer

BLU-RAY:
• 1981 Censor Prologue (Theatrical Re-Release)
• Archival Audio Commentary with co-writer/Producer/Cinematographer/CoEditor/Director Russ Meyer
• Audio Commentary with Actress Erica Gavin
• Woman… Or Animal? – Interviews With Actors Erica Gavin And Harrison Page
• David Del Valle’s The Sinister Image with Guests Russ Meyer And Yvette Vickers
• Entertainment… Or Obscenity? – Marc Edward Heuck on the Film’s Historic Cincinnati
Censorship Battles
• Trailer

Supervixens
Following the ‘serious’ features The Seven Minutes and Black Snake, this 1975 return to form written, photographed, edited, produced and directed by Russ Meyer remains perhaps his most over-the-top and savagely entertaining epic of all: When a hot-blooded wife (Shari Eubank) and a psychotic cop (a startling performance by Charles Napier of The Blues Brothers fame) come together, it will ignite a cross-country odyssey of violence, vengeance and relentless coitus. John Lazar (Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls), Uschi Digard (Beneath The Valley Of The Ultravixens) and Haji (Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!) co-star in Russ’ “super-sexy live-action Road Runner cartoon” (Empire), now restored by Severin Films in conjunction with The Russ Meyer Trust and scanned in 4K from the original negative stored at The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.

Special Features for SUPERVIXENS
UHD:
• Archival Audio Commentary with writer/cinematographer/editor/producer/director Russ
Meyer
• Trailer

BLU-RAY:
• Archival Audio Commentary with Writer/Cinematographer/Editor/Producer/Director Russ
Meyer
• Russ Meyer Versus the Porn-Busters – Mike Carroll Interview with Russ Meyer
• ‘The Return Of Harry Sledge – Interview With Actor Charles Napier’
• The Incredibly Strange Film Show Season 1, Episode 5: Russ Meyer
• Trailer
• TV Spot

Beneath The Valley Of The Ultravixens
The final feature produced, photographed, edited and directed by Russ Meyer is a wicked take
on Our Town, co-written by Meyer and Pulitzer Prize winner Severin Films devoted months to the painstaking restoration of its weather-damaged negative before scanning it in 4K and compiling 2+ hours of new and archival footage, all with the blessing and cooperation of The Russ Meyer Trust.

Special Features for BENEATH THE VALLEY OF THE ULTRAVIXENS
UHD:
• Archival Audio Commentary With Co-Writer/Producer/Cinematographer/Editor/Director
Russ Meyer
• Trailer

BLU-RAY:
• Archival Audio Commentary with Co-Writer/Producer/Cinematographer/Editor/Director
Russ Meyer
• The Latin Brünhilde – Interview with Actress Kitten Natividad
• Talk It Over – Ellen Adelstein Interviews Russ Meyer for Her Tucson Talk Show In 1979
• Still Talking It Over – New Interview with Ellen Adelstein
• Trailer

The ‘Vixen Trilogy’  aka  Vixen, Supervixens and Beneath The Valley Of The Ultravixens will be released on Blu-ray and UHD. The UHD and Blu-ray releases will be available for pre-order at the Severin Films UK webstore beginning 8th November ahead of the UK release on 27th January 2025.