Beyond The Valley of the Dolls is one trip of a film for a variety of reasons. Buzzfeed describes it as taking debauchery to an exciting new level and that’s the best way to describe this cult masterpiece in a single sentence.
Valley of the Dolls is an iconic campy film in the gay community. What was supposed to be a serious adaptation of the most memorable book of the time was unintentionally hilarious, leading so many gay men fell in love with the film.
One of the film’s many memorial quotes. The dialogue in Beyond The Valley of the Dolls is so wonderful and unique.
What’s bizarre is how for a sequel they got perhaps the most heterosexual filmmaker of all time, Russ Meyer to do a follow up with little to no relation to Valley of the Dolls. The only thing similar is that it’s another story of a young woman achieving fame and losing herself. Those around her also lose themselves in an over the top level of camp drama that you can only get from Valley of the Dolls. I do love Russ Meyer because with his films you can always count on seeing multiple topless woman with tits bigger than your mind could ever imagine.
Naked busty goddesses, hilarious campy drama and transsexuals decapitating hunky blondes who look like Scott Thorson in his prime, this film has it all.
Yet another thing from this film worth quoting on a regular basis.
Also, Roger Ebert wrote the script. So whenever he gave someone a negative review as a critic, perhaps more than any other critic he was justified in doing so since he penned a script that was turned into one of the most exciting mainstream films of all time.
Beyond The Valley of the Dolls is very much of its time, so much that Strawberry Alarm Clock play at the party towards the beginning of the film. While watching this film my mind was constantly thinking about The Love Witch and how those who made it must’ve been watching this film on a constant loop while they were writing the script and designing the costumes.
I enjoy any film with ambition because it’s something you rarely see in movies anymore. Films nowadays tend to be focused on appealing to the widest, dullest audience imaginable which always sends me back to watching films like Beyond The Valley of the Dolls.
A film like this is a great test to see if a new friend or relationship is worth investing any time into. If they don’t find Beyond the Valley of the Dolls to be one of the most energizing thrills ever put onto film reel, I wouldn’t waste my time.
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