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No fairy tale...this! In 1976, producer/director/cinematographer/editor Russ Meyer delivered his penultimate feature film - co-written by BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS screenwriter and Pulitzer Prize winner Roger Ebert - hailed as "jaw-droppingly perverse" (Entertainment Weekly), "Meyer at his most outrageous" (Images Journal) and "definitely not to be confused with the Pixar cartoon" (The Spinning Image): 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 (THE CENTERFOLD GIRLS) co-stars in "one of Russ Meyer's best films" (We Are Movie Geeks), now scanned in 4K from the original negative by Severin Films with new and archival Special Features curated in association with The Russ Meyer Trust.
Special Features
- Audio Commentary With Film Historian Elizabeth Purchell
- No Fairy Tale...This! - Interview With Actress Raven De La Croix
- Radio Spot
- Genre: Cult
- Run Time: 80 mins
- Number of Discs: 2
- Audio: STEREO
- Year of Production: 1976
- Region Code: 0
- Box Lot: 0
- Territory: NORTH AMERICA
- Language: English
- Slipcover: Yes
Cast & Crew
- Actor: Edward Schaaf
- Actor: Robert McLane
- Actor: Elaine Collins
- Actor: Candy Samples
- Actor: Su Ling
- Actor: Janet Wood
- Actor: Linda Sue Ragsdale
- Actor: Harry
- Actor: Raven De La Croix
- Actor: Monty Bane
- Actor: Marianne Marks
- Actor: Larry Dean
- Actor: Bob Schott
- Actor: Foxy Lae
- Actor: Ray Reinhardt
- Actor: Kitten Natividad
- Director: Russ Meyer
- Producer: Russ Meyer
Press Quotes
An erotic comedy of epic proportions... It's campy, violent and wallowing in a sea of carnality, but effective in its mission of unrefined eroticism and gung-ho extravagance.
—Gone with the Twins
Pure Russ Meyer excess... A playfully perverse melding of sex and violence, complete with Kitten Navidad as the nude hostess/narrator.
—Every '70s Movie
An artistic triumph... UP! is a surrealistic showcase of Meyer at his rebellious best and one of the more overlooked films in his career.
—Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Jaw-droppingly perverse... It's like SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT and Sam Peckinpah thrown together into a raunchy redneck stew, topped off by dialogue as florid as anything from the zaniest Coen Brothers outing.
—Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
One of Russ Meyer's best films... Meyer's 1976 comedy thriller was co-written by Roger Ebert and contains Nazis, lesbianism, buggery, piranha, kinky sex - and that's just the first 10 minutes!
—We Are Movie Geeks
Definitely not to be confused with the Pixar cartoon... Meyer went farther than he ever had before in depicting the sex that he had previously left as teasing nudity. UP! is pretty strong stuff.
—The Spinning Image
Russ Meyer at his most outrageous... By this time Meyer had cranked up the sexual content in his movies to compete with hardcore pornography.
—Images Journal
★★★★★ An extravagant film from an anarchist... Sadomasochist Adolf Hitler, beatings, murders and the super-oversized Kitten Natividad as a narrator. A fun movie!
—Cinema Cult
