Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
Directed by Russ Meyer
Written by Jackie Moran; story by Russ Meyer
1965/USA
Eve Productions
First viewing/Amazon Instant
One of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die
[box] Varla: I never try anything. I just do it. And I don’t beat clocks, just people! Wanna try me?[/box]
Easy to see why this is a cult film. Harder to see why we all have to watch it before we die.
Three stone cold vixen go-go dancers – Varla, Rosa and Billy – take a car trip in the desert and end up kidnapping a bikini-clad girl after killing her boyfriend. They come across an old man who is reputedly holding big bucks at home and seduce his sons to help get at the dough. But is it really going to be that easy?
This is certainly unlike anything that precedes it. It is campy, raunchy, dirty fun. Liked the proto-punk sound track. I’m not so sure that I will be watching again though.
Great trailer – perfectly captures tone!
