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{{quote|''"There's juice freaks, and pill freaks, and then everybody's a freak! What you need is grass or a downer or something."''|'''Casey'''}}
 
A kinda sequel to ''[[Film/Valley Ofof The Dolls|Valley Of Thethe Dolls]]'' released by [[Twentieth Century Fox|20th Century Fox]]. Directed by [[Russ Meyer]] and co-written by Meyer and movie critic [[Roger Ebert]] (who described landing the gig as an example of inmates [[Running the Asylum]] at the studio), '''''Beyond the Valley of the Dolls''''' is about a musical quartet of girls who go to Hollywood to live with the lead singer's wealthy swinger aunt.
 
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=== ''[[Beyond the Valley of The Dolls]]'' Provides Examples Of: ===
* [[Action Girl]]: {{spoiler|Z-Man}}, possibly.
* [[Affectionate Parody]]: Of the original ''[[Valley of the Dolls]]''. But beyond that.
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* [[Big Bra to Fill]]: Every woman in the movie.
* [[Bi the Way]]: Casey. I think she's converted by the end of the movie.
* [[Bond One -Liner]]: "You will drink the black sperm of my vengeance."
** "You beg for mercy, while the cries of six millions innocents still ring in your ears? They are waiting for you!"
* [[B -Movie]]: An all-girl band of hippies and their producer head to Hollywood to collect on some old inheritance where they get lucky and make it big before falling in with the wrong crowd and quickly slip into a life of sleaze and decadence. We're talking 2 weeks here.
* [[Broken Bird]]: Casey.
* [[Bury Your Gays]]: {{spoiler|Casey, Roxanne, Z-Man}}.
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** "Don't bogart the joint!"
* [[Combat Stilettos]]: {{spoiler|Z-Man}} with his knee-high gold boots.
* [[Death Byby Sex]]: {{spoiler|Casey, Lance, Roxanne, Z-Man}}. Subverted with {{spoiler|Baxter, Emerson, Harris, Kelly, Susan, Pet}}.
* [[Fan Disservice]] / [[Squick]]: {{spoiler|Topless Z-Man.}}
* [[Genre Shift]]: Turns into a [[Slasher Movie]] for the last 25 minutes.
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* [[Gun in My Pocket]]: {{spoiler|Z-Man}} forces a gun in {{spoiler|Roxanne's}} mouth while she's sleeping before shooting her. Enter Sigmund Freud.
* [[He Also Did]]: Famous film critic Roger Ebert was one of the writers.
* [[Hey, ItsIt's That Guy!]]: Most of the actresses were Playboy models beforehand.
* [[In Name Only]]: Has nothing to do with the original ''Valley of the Dolls'' novel/film. In fact some have suggested the title of the film should be "Beyond ''The Valley of the Dolls''" - i.e. the film is going beyond the themes and topics of the book and film.
* [[Infant Immortality]]: Averted with Casey's abortion.
* [[Large Ham]]: Take your pick.
* [[Made of Plasticine]]: {{spoiler|Lance and Otto}}.
* [[Naked in Mink]]: At least [https://web.archive.org/web/20120223105521/http://www.ebertfest.com/nine/photos/BVD2.jpg one of the posters] shows a bunch of girls laying around [[Pretty in Mink|several fur coats]].
* [[Playboy]]: Dolly Read (Miss May 1966), Cynthia Myers (Miss December 1968)
* [[Recurring Character]]: Martin Bormann has appeared in a few of Russ Meyer movies.
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* [[Sassy Black Woman]]: Pet.
* [[Sex Montage]]: Rolls Royce sequence.
* [[Shout -Out]]: Martin Bormann, deceased Nazi.
* [[Tag Team]]: Roger Ebert (film critic) and Russ Meyer (the boobs producer).
* [[Tomato Surprise]], [[Twist Ending]]: {{spoiler|Z-Man is a woman. Or transgender and just had breast implants. It's left vague.}}
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[[Category:DannyBeyond Pearythe CultValley Moviesof ListThe Dolls]]
[[Category:Films of the 1970s]]
[[Category:BeyondDanny ThePeary ValleyCult OfMovies The DollsList]]
[[Category:TropeThe Criterion Collection]]
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