Severin Films Unleashes Russ Meyer’s Exploitation Classics Up! and Motorpsycho on Blu-ray

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SEVERIN UNLEASHES TWO MORE HUGE RELEASES FROM RUSS MEYER’S BOSOMANIA! WITH MOTORPSYCHO & UP!

‘Great to see Russ Meyer’s movies getting the treatment they deserve from Severin Films…. scanned in 4K from the original negative… they look gorgeous! I was surprised how detailed these are… Great stuff for fans of Russ Meyer and exploitation cinema’.

Following their celebrated release of The VIXEN Trilogy from Severin Films – in collaboration with The Russ Meyer Charitable Trust – the company is bringing two more landmark films from the vaults of iconic American auteur Russ Meyer: 1965’s action-and-violence saga MOTORPSYCHO and the erotic comedy RUSS MEYER’S UP! co-written by Roger Ebert.

Both titles have been restored and scanned in 4K from their original negatives with hours of new and archival Special Features and are set to arrive on 28 April 2025, available to pre-order at https://severinfilms.co.uk 

MOTORPSYCHO (1965)

“PLENTY OF ACTION AND BUXOM WOMEN… A companion piece to FASTER, PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL! packed with all the sex and violence Russ Meyer could get away with in 1965.” The Spinning Image

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 this 1965 shocker: When a trio of psycho bikers launches a sexual assault and murder spree in a desert town, the local veterinarian (Alex Rocco of THE GODFATHER fame in his screen debut) teams up with a rage-ravaged vixen (the incredible Haji in her first film role) to settle the score. Steve Oliver (WEREWOLVES ON WHEELS), Lane Carroll (THE CRAZIES), Timothy Scott (THE FARMER) and Russ himself co-star in this “slick, violent and well made” (Variety) Meyer milestone, now scanned in 4K from the original negative restored by The Museum of Modern Art with new and archival Special Features curated by Severin Films in association with The Russ Meyer Trust.

Special Features for MOTORPSYCHO

UHD:

  • Audio Commentary With Film Historian Elizabeth Purchell And Filmmaker Zach Clark
  • Trailer

BLU-RAY/DVD:

  • Audio Commentary With Film Historian Elizabeth Purchell And Filmmaker Zach Clark
  • Desert Rats On Hondas – Interviews With Actors Haji And Alex Rocco
  • Trailer

Feature Specs for MOTORPSYCHO

  • Runtime: 74 mins
  • Audio: English Mono
  • Closed Captions: English SDH
  • Region: A/B/C
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1

Motorpsycho 4K pre-order: https://severinfilms.co.uk/products/motorpsycho-uhd

Motorpsycho Blu-ray pre-order: https://severinfilms.co.uk/products/motorpsycho-blu

RUSS MEYER’S UP! (1976)

“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

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 sodomised Führers, ravenous piranhas, 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 for RUSS MEYER’S UP!

UHD:

  • Audio Commentary with Film Historian Elizabeth Purchell

BLU-RAY/DVD:

  • Audio Commentary with Film Historian Elizabeth Purchell
  • No Fairy Tale… This! – Interview With Actress Raven De La Croix
  • Radio Spot

Feature Specs for RUSS MEYER’S UP!

  • Run Time: 80 mins
  • Audio: English Mono
  • Closed Captions: English SDH
  • Region: A/B/C
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

Up! 4K pre-order: https://severinfilms.co.uk/products/russ-meyers-up-uhd

Up! Blu-ray pre-order: https://severinfilms.co.uk/products/russ-meyers-up-blu

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