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Exploitation maven Russ Meyer created a cult classic with this turbo-charged action film. Three curvaceous go-go dancers in a cool sports car go on a desert crime spree, led by Varla (the amazing Tura... read more read more... Satana), a busty, nasty woman dressed entirely in black. Varla's lesbian moll, Rosie (Haji) -- who has an extremely overwrought accent -- and reluctant bimbo Billie (Lori Williams) are along for the ride. When they meet a naïve young couple, Tommy and Linda (Ray Barlow and Sue Bernard), Varla challenges the man to a race then kills him by breaking his back. They take Linda hostage and drive to a house owned by a crippled old lecher (Stuart Lancaster) and his muscular but retarded son, Vegetable (Dennis Busch). Varla discovers that the old man has money hidden on the property, so the girls try to find it. Meanwhile, Vegetable's perverted father tries to trick him into assaulting one of the girls as he watches, but his other son (Paul Trinka) finally shows up to save the day. A great deal of bloodshed, campy catfighting, and funny dialogue fills the bulk of this fast-paced comic book of a movie. ~ Robert Firsching, Rovi

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R, 1 hr. 23 min.

Directed by: Russ Meyer

Release Date: January 1, 1965

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  • rubystevens
    February 6, 2011
    rubystevens
    cult actress tura santana died friday evening in reno, nevada. she was 72. rip :(
  • ariuza1
    January 7, 2011
    ariuza1
    Three go-go dancers - Varla (Tura Satana), Rosie (Haji) and Billie (Lori Williams) - are racing their sports cars out in the desert when they meet up with a young man named Tommy (Ray Barlow) and his girlfriend Linda (Susan Bernard). Tommy is an amateur car racer who has come out... read more to do some time trials. Varla challenges him to a race. When she cuts him off with her car it leads to a fight and she kills him. Dragging the frightened Linda with them the trio go into the nearest town to fill up with petrol. There they see a muscly young man (Dennis Busch) carrying his crippled father (Stuart Lancaster) to his truck. The petrol station attendant (Mickey Foxx) tells the girls that the muscle man is retarded and that his bitter old father is reputed to be rich, but must have his riches stashed away somewhere at his isolated homestead. The girls decide to drop in for a visit hoping to find the old man's riches. They pass off Linda as a rich man's runaway daughter they are bringing home against her will. What they don't know is that the old man is a misogynist who delights in kidnapping women for his son, whom he refers to only as The Vegetable, to rape. They will have to rely on their own deadly talents and the possible decency of the old man's other son Kirk (Paul Trinka).

    Russ Meyer's black and white "ode to the violence in women" made little impact when first released in 1965. Meyer had taken the world by storm with "The Immoral Mr. Teas" (1959), the film most often credited with kicking off the nudie cutie craze. And he would become a household name with the success of "Vixen!" (1968). But the films he made between those two landmarks, though some of them are among his best work, didn't attract much attention. But then John Waters, in his 1981 autobiography "Shock Value" wrote : "'Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!'...is, beyond a doubt, the best movie ever made (No doubt it's my "favourite" of all time). It is possibly better than any film that will be made in the future." Waters dubbed Meyer "the Eisentein of sex films" because his use of skillful editing to get maximum impact out of scenes of sex and violence is reminiscent of the methods by which the Russian director managed to powerfully convey his political messages. Waters' championing of "Faster, Pussycat!", in particular, led to it becoming a favourite on college campus's across America.

    If Meyer is "the Eisenstein of sex films" then "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" is the "Citizen Kane" of trash films. I don't use the term disparagingly. For me a trash film is a film which appeals on a visceral rather than purely emotional level. In trash films realism is bad style. We must always know that we are watching a movie and enjoy it as a fantasy formed from our own base drives - from those uncivilised aspects of our nature that we must repress to live a civilised existence. Hence the term "trash" for the substance of these films is those aspects of ourselves which must be discarded. The violence in the trash film appeals to the knot in our stomach from every time we've had to bite back on our anger. It's prurient sexuality appeals to the lusts generated by everyday existence for which we may have insufficient outlet. We don't sympathise with the characters in a film like this, but we can identify with their actions because they take place in an obvious fantasy world. But the trash film has another appeal - the exhilaration that comes from the transgression of the bounds of good taste. And its sense of humour is the kind which elicits a belly-laugh. The anarchic spirit of the trash film has no less value than the more rarefied pleasures and intellectual stimulation of the art film.

    What makes "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" great is the way that it takes the sex and violence of the trash film and distills them into something more iconic than explicit. Unlike most of Meyer's films, there is no frontal nudity or sex scenes. The violence is powerful, but not extended or shown in gory detail. Yet Tura Satana in her tight black jeans, half-exposed breasts practically bursting free as she eyes up a man like a side of beef or takes him out with karate chop to the neck, distills any amount of sex and violence into a single unforgettable mythic figure. Similarly the vastly underrated Stuart Lancaster is the very personification of sleazy misogyny. Add to this the brilliant build-up of the opening monologue, Meyer's masterful editing and Jack Moran's eminently quotable and often hilariously funny camp dialogue and you have a trash film masterpiece that just gets better and better the more times you watch it.
  • ajv2688
    December 5, 2010
    ajv2688
    What a great movie, and a cult classic too. This movie is an action thriller about three rough, wild go-go dancers who meet a family of three psychotic men, plus an innocent girl caught in the middle of the fight. It's a very interesting and unique film, you never know what'll ... read morehappen next.
  • mjgildea
    January 14, 2010
    mjgildea
    While not an amazing movie, it's definitely an incredibly fun one. Or maybe it's just the sex and violence talking. Great score, great dialogue ("You really should be AM and FM. You one-band broads are a drag!") and some straight-up, non-silicone brand foxiness (Lori Williams is ... read moresuch goddamned doll), Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! just might be the very definition of camp in all its sleazy glory.
  • jennifxu
    January 28, 2009
    jennifxu
    Camp, camp, camp. Nasty, sexually charged, and ultraviolent, it's pretty much exactly what you're expecting, which is refreshing. After watching Death Proof all I wanted to do was watch this film, and I finally have. Tarantino gets so much B-movie inspiration from this one it's C... read moreRAZY. All three woman have ginormous gazombas! "We don't like anything soft. Everything we do is hard." HELLO innuendo!
  • kiriyamakazou
    December 28, 2008
    kiriyamakazou
    Campy B-Movie classic. Attractive women go out looking for fun, which usually includes violence. After the sexiness wears off seriousness sets in. It's eventually becomes very unlikeable in terms of characters and content. The story is never as gripping as it should be, mostly be... read morecause it is evil vs. evil, each side with a different representative for certain levels of evil. There are some classic lines to enjoy and it picks up towards the very end. I can see why it is a cult classic.
  • Stinger839
    August 15, 2008
    Stinger839
    This is such a fun exploitation flick. It suffers from a few filming problems (jump cuts that don't reveal what just happened, esp the race against the random "Boy Next Door" at the beginning). A great thriller story, and you can clearly see the influence on today's directors, es... read morepecially Tarantino, and the rumor that he would do a remake of this has been reported numerous times on cinephile sites, but he sort of did his version of this with Death Proof and the Kill Bill films.
    For my horror fan friends, this isn't horror perse but it is a very cool psychological thriller you need to check out if you have appreciation for compelling story as opposed to just gore. The body count is plenty high, but the accent here is on the distinctive characters and this odd world they've happened into. A must-see for anyone interested in film history as this film personifies much of the commonalities in exploitation film and bridges the gap between the masters of the 50s and the upped visual ante of the 70s.

    "So Fucked Up" highlight:
    conclusion of the story
  • cancercapricorn2002
    August 6, 2008
    cancercapricorn2002
    This is my favorite film from Russ Meyer ("Vixen" and "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" get honorable mention), it is the most representative of his oeuvre. In fact, I'd go so far as to say it is the quintessential drive-in film. It has everything a good exploitation film needs. ... read moreCampy dialog, slight surrealism, quick pace, over-the-top performances, violence, and cleavage! What more can you ask for? There's no actual nudity, but I think that suggestion and subtlety are always sexier.

    The three lead performances are terrific by camp standards. Tura Satana is one of the best screen villains ever, a truly heartless yet sexy woman (and she knows karate too). Haji is cool, quiet, tough, and intimidating, with more than a few hints of lesbianism. Lori Williams is the most likable and compassionate of the trio, but for some reason she comes off as being the sexiest in my mind. Stuart Lancaster is pretty good as the old man, but the rest of the cast is pretty mediocre. Thats okay however, when you have such memorable leads.

    Russ Meyer was always an interesting director. Its difficult to tell by watching his films if he's serious or not. He just sometimes seemed a bit too consistent with the dementia of the films to actually be self-aware (despite numerous reports to the contrary). Anyways, this is the definitive drive-in film and one of the greatest of all cult films.
  • YLOWBSTARDreturns
    February 8, 2008
    YLOWBSTARDreturns
    Outstanding exploitation.
  • kenstachnik
    September 26, 2007
    kenstachnik
    More fun than a barrel of busty baboons

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Critic Reviews

March 28, 2007
Variety

Some good performances emerge from a one-note script via very good Russ Meyer direction and his outstanding editing. Full Review

James Berardinelli
January 1, 2000
James Berardinelli, ReelViews

I guess plunging necklines and tight shorts aren't what they used to be... Not that such a realization will hamper anyone's enjoyment of this, or any other, Meyer endeavor. Full Review

Roger Ebert
January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

What is it about Meyer that spurs critics to this hyperbole? I think it is an intensely personal reaction to the visceral power of Meyer's unusual images. Full Review

Gabe Leibowitz
October 8, 2009
Gabe Leibowitz, Film and Felt

Sadly, Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! sounds far better on paper than it actually plays. Full Review

Cole Smithey
August 4, 2009
Cole Smithey, Daily Radar

Russ Meyer's fetishistic vision of powerful bisexual amazons of mixed nationalities engaged in criminal super action exists in a cartoonish world of black and white humor where anything is possible Full Review

March 28, 2007
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Gleefully sordid, violent, good-humored exploitation from Russ Meyer, the thinking person's skin-flick director. Full Review

Cole Smithey
February 20, 2007
Cole Smithey, ColeSmithey.com

Classic social satire and slapstick humor!

Dennis Schwartz
October 26, 2006
Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

This one aimed for the unsophisticated drive-in market with its rich mixture of sex and violence, but served up no nudity or swearing. Full Review

January 26, 2006
Time Out

A cheap and efficient comic horror movie, it's funniest when its dialogue and characters' behaviour are at their most non sequitur. Full Review

Clint Morris
October 22, 2005
Clint Morris, Moviehole

Joel Schumacher, camp? Meh - this is camp, and this is undeniably a wild good time. Full Review

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