Shadow of a Doubt illustrating the evilness of Uncle Charlie

With 1975’s Supervixens, Meyer shifted gears into darker territory and created an evil male counterpart to his Amazonian leading ladies, a grinning psychopath by the name of Harry Sledge. The Meyer woman is a buxom ubermensch who ploughs through anyone who gets in her way and won’t take shit from a man. Generally, Meyer’s movies are well remembered for their shameless objectification of his leading ladies and, bizarrely, their empowerment of these characters. Primarily well known for Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!Russ Meyer is famous (or infamous) for his Looney Toon sexploitation features of the ’60s. Harry Sledge, Supervixens (Russ Meyer, 1975)

However, with his poor impulse control and compulsion to ultra violence, Sam is no innocent fall guy, as Trevor learns to her detriment. Obsessed with enriching himself, Sam manages to control his temper long enough to ensconce himself into the life of a wealthy young debutante, but not before he’s hooked up with an icy femme fatale (Claire Trevor) with her own designs on the young woman’s fortune. An unhinged psychopath with an eye for the ladies and the good life, Sam Wilde introduces himself to the viewer by stalking an old flame home and battering her to death with a bottle after he catches her on a date (the date doesn’t get out of the encounter either).

Shadow of a Doubt illustrating the evilness of Uncle Charlie