Vixen Reviews

[Highly rated reviewer]

Best Meyer film I've seen

Meyer's done some rubbish, but this is a valid and interesting film with a social comment to boot. The usual images (naked women cavorting on matressless bedsprings or touching themselves while lying on rocks) which appear in (all?) his films are there. Sexually, it's quite tame (certainly compared to his Up!) but it's a far far better film than all of them. And quite erotic too. Dealing with racism, incest, communism, the IRA, this film has something for everyone. And the story makes sense (unlike Up! and some others). Erica Gavin is gorgeous (unfortunately her character isn't). This was her first movie and pretty much her last. There's a moving interview from 2005 amongst the extras that you must watch: in it she explains how she got such a shock when she saw herself on the big screen for the first time, that she became an anorexic. From the interview, it looks as though it's a disorder she may not yet have overcome. But it's a very moving piece, Erica seems to be a lovely person in real life.

Classic Meyer

I have to admit that this is not one of my favourite Meyer films. Don't get me wrong, of its kind, its a good film, but, despite the gorgeous Erica Gavin and the incest etc, it still seems a little tame for my liking! For proper Meyer, wacky, wild and more women than you can shake a dic... I mean stick at, get 'Beneath the Valley of the Ultra Vixens'. Still a good early nudie sex romp.

Only Tits!

Interesting historical overview of porn movies, this being the first one to be rated X. But for today's standards it wouldn't even be considered soft porn. It only shows tits and a glimpse of ass at best. And not so much of these either. Still, nice to see REAL good looking bodies rather than today's artificially made ones!

[Highly rated reviewer]

vixen

POOR ! vERY DISSAPOINTED !

[Highly rated reviewer]

Time pleaser

Amateur hour rubbish but it has a bouncy joie de vive. Vixen is the spiritually loyal but wilfully adulterous wife of a private charter plane pilot, who is oblivious to her antics. It's set in the Canadian Rockies. Vixen's antics include seducing her younger brother in the shower.

Vixen is also racist and taunts the 'black boy' friend of her brother, who glares at her and says things like 'I'm warning you Vixen...' Vixen has a voice like Tiffany Case taunting Curly at the gas station. The racism is meant to be ironic, that she's so loose sexually but so uptight on race, but I confess that passed me by.

Bittersweet interview extra shows the actress who played Vixen looking really thin and rough; she later reveals that seeing her so large on the big screen at the time made her feel sick and triggered her anorexia. She thanks the recently deceased Meyer for giving her her 15 mins of fame... but you do look at her and think of the cost.

whats it all about

At least it could have had a plot then it might of been a film

ORGASM ADDICT

Good example of the maturer Russ Meyer style; incorporating adultery, incest, lesbianism, White racism, draft dodging and the great outdoors. The political themes are broadly sketched and well-integrated into the plot without seeming tacked-on for effect. Female sexual-pleasure is foregrounded in the shape of the lusciously built and insatiably-pneumatic Erica Gavin. Take me to Cuba!

Typical RM

Well what do you expect, B**bs, Birds & a lot of laughs

Is she woman ... or animal?

Vixen (Erica Gavin) is a woman whose bark is probably much worse than her bite. When she isn?t spewing racist diatribe at her brother?s (Jon Evans) black friend (Harrison Page), she?s cheating on her na?ve husband (Gareth Pillsbury) with both men and women (and even a little incest!). Given that this a Russ Meyer film you get a wonderful mix of flesh and politics with every aspect from racism to Communism to anti-Vietnam sentiments are all gleefully exploited. Again the rapid-fire dialogue is superb and Gavin, who was originally an ?exotic dancer?, gives a wonderfully seductive yet acid-tongued performance. Ranking up there with Faster P*ssycat?Kill!, Kill! (I can't believe Select doesn't allow you to type this film's title!), Vixen finds the King of Sleaze on top form. 4/5

(Extras - Audio commentary from Russ Meyer, 'Vixen' featurette Erica Gavin, photo album and Trailer reel)

Is she woman ... or animal?

Vixen (Erica Gavin) is a woman whose bark is probably much worse than her bite. When she isn?t spewing racist diatribe at her brother?s (Jon Evans) black friend (Harrison Page), she?s cheating on her na?ve husband (Gareth Pillsbury) with both men and women (and even her brother!). Given that this a Russ Meyer film you get a wonderful mix of flesh and politics with every aspect from racism to Communism to anti-Vietnam sentiments are all gleefully exploited. Again the rapid-fire dialogue is superb and Gavin, who was originally an ?exotic dancer?, gives a wonderfully seductive yet acid-tongued performance. Ranking up there with Faster P*ssycat?.Kill!, Kill!, Vixen finds the King of Sleaze on top form. 4/5

(Extras - Audio commentary from Russ Meyer, 'Vixen' featurette Erica Gavin, photo album and Trailer reel)