Before you can say (or spell) “areola”, we’ll bust out and tell you about two new heaving Russ Meyer gems that Severin Films–in collaboration with The Russ Meyer Charitable Trust–has unleashed. Mark this “exploitation entertainment”: Motorpsycho (1965) (combined with Up!), available on UHD and DVD/Blu-ray for the first time in more than two decades. Both titles have been restored and scanned in 4K from their original negatives with hours of new and archival special features.
Just prior to Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! producer/director/co-writer and cinematographer Russ Meyer first unleashed his singular vision of full-throttle violence and vengeance with the 1965 shocker Motorpsycho: When a trio of psycho bikers launches a sexual assault and murder spree in a desert town, the local veterinarian (portrayed by Alex Rocco in his screen debut) teams with a rage-ravaged vixen (the incredible Haji in her own first film role) to settle the score. Steve Oliver, Lane Carroll, Timothy Scott and Russ himself co-star in this “slick, violent and well made” (Variety) Meyer milestone.
Up! is not to be left out. Welcome to a sex-blasted burg in Northern California where sodomized Führers, ravenous piranha, sapphic ecstasy, murder mystery, Shakespearean appropriation and the remarkable Raven De La Croix collide, with Kitten Natividad–in her RM Productions debut–as The Greek Chorus of it all. Janet Wood co-stars in this 1965 gem.