Kitten Natividad and Ann Marie in Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens (1979)
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Beneath The Vallley Of The Ultra Vixens
Russ Meyer 1979
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June Mack, Beneath the Valley of the Ultra Vixens, 1979
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BENEATH THE VALLEY OF THE ULTRA VIXENS (1979)
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Hyapatia Lee’s Tasty (1985)
“With a face like yours, you have no business being behind a microphone.”
I’ve always been a sucker for films that take place in radio stations. Pump Up the Volume. The Fog. Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. Talk Radio. American Hot Wax. Beneath the Valley of the Ultra Vixens. I’m also an absolute sucker for anything involving Hyapatia Lee.
The radio station in Hyapatia Lee’s Tasty is on the verge of losing its top advertiser, so the station owner gives the employees one week to turn things around. The team’s solution: Screw the FCC — let’s go from AM rock to sexy talk. Hyapatia (here as the titular Tasty Tastums) helps a couple who’ve just seen The Last Tango in Paris have anal sex over the air before cutting to a song called “Backdoor Annie” by Incest & The Cream Cheese (???). Another hit track is by Hall & Ass. It’s too easy. And the song parodies are good!
There’s a hint of Russ Meyer’s Beneath the Valley of the Ultra Vixens in the camera work and editing, the juxtaposition of various bodies having fun and the technology around them transmitting this transgressive radio format.
Winking at the camera, porn from this era is always at its funnest when it’s working with the zeitgeist and has the self-awareness that it can get away with what mainstream Hollywood cannot.
Echoing MTV (which launched in 1981), Tasty goes from radio to video with a neon-drenched Pat Benatar homage: “Hit Me with Your Wet Shot” by Tasty Tastums and the Sextets. Not sure what MTV would stand for in this cinematic universe.
And just as you think the FCC is going to pull the plug on this ersatz WKRP, the ratings come out — and they are through the roof. “We’re the number one station in town!” Double-bill this with UHF.
Along with other Hyapatia flicks like Body Girls, Let’s Get Physical and Sweet Young Foxes, this one’s a winner.
Oh and Karen Summer shows up with impressively big hair.
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Kitten Natividad in Russ Meyer's "Beneath the Valley of the Ultra Vixens" (1979)
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