Vixen!

Vixen! (1968) is Russ Meyer's cult sexploitation drama, now available to watch online on iFILM. Up at a remote Canadian mountain lodge, Vixen Palmer is bored stiff while her trusting bush-pilot husband Tom ferries tourists over the peaks. With him in the air, she goes hunting on the ground — and turns nobody away.

Erica Gavin plays the role Meyer built the picture around: brazen, predatory, allergic to limits. A honeymooning couple checks in, her biker brother turns up, and a fugitive with a chip on his shoulder drifts through, until the sleepy resort curdles into a knot of lust, jealousy and the racial bigotry Meyer drags into the open on purpose. Seventy minutes, shot on pocket change, yet Vixen! is the film that pulled Meyer out of the grindhouse and into real box-office money, paving the way to his studio gig on Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. Sharp, satirical and deliberately crude, it's essential viewing for fans of American trash classics and the history of independent cinema. Stream Vixen! (1968) online on iFILM.