Camp Out

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Like I mentioned before, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is finally getting its due on DVD, being released in a super-deluxe 2-DVD set on June 13th... that's only 6 tiny shopping days away! Ignore the rain, thunder, hail, frogs and locusts, do all you can to get yourself to a store on that fateful day and snatch up a copy! You will not be sorry. Written by Roger Ebert! Directed by Russ Meyer! Enjoyed by everyone everywhere! This is my happening and it's freaking me out!!!

Also being released that day is the original Valley of the Dolls, based on Jacqueline Susann's infamous tale of pill-popping Hollywood gals, given the same deluxe treatment. I have yet to see it, but I'll be sure to share once I do.

It's nice to see such esteemed classics being given their due, finally.

Check out, to the left there, this German poster I found for Beyond... "Blumen ohne Duft" translates to "Flowers Without Smell". Not quite the same ring to it.

Here's what Fox has to say:

Get twelve steps closer to superstardom as Fox Home Entertainment exposes Hollywood’s most shaming secrets when Valley Of The Dolls and Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls debut on DVD June 13, 2006. These two legends of camp – from the twisted minds of scandal-making sixties icon Jacqueline Susann, (actress, author, screenwriter and thinly veiled subject of Valley Of The Dolls), and midnight movie kingpin Russ Meyer (Faster Pussycat, Kill Kill!) respectively – horrified critics and enthralled audiences when they opened in theaters and have both remained cult classics ever since.

Valley Of The Dolls stars Oscar® winner Patty Duke* (The Miracle Worker), Barbara Parkins (“Peyton Place”) and Sharon Tate (“The Beverly Hillbillies”) as three aspiring starlets who let Hollywood go to their heads. The Valley Of The Dolls DVD arrives loaded with pulpy bonus programming, including the famously sloppy screen test by Judy Garland, as well as original featurettes, “Pill Pop-Up Karaoke,” and much more.

Penned by now-famous film critic Roger Ebert, the outrageously over-the-top Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls earned an X-rating on its quest to out-do the scandalous original with the story of a girl-band, The Carrie Nations, who arrive in Hollywood to find only sex, drugs and sleaze. Featuring doll-induced performances by non-actors from the rock and adult film communities, Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls is a shameless classic that proves “all are available for a price.”