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Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

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Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965)

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Reviews Counted:25

Fresh:18

Rotten:7

Average Rating:6.9/10

Runtime: 83 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: Varla (Tura Satana), Billie (Lori Williams), and Rosie (Haji) are three fed-up go-go dancers who drive out into the California desert to let off some steam. When they encounter squeaky clean couple... Varla (Tura Satana), Billie (Lori Williams), and Rosie (Haji) are three fed-up go-go dancers who drive out into the California desert to let off some steam. When they encounter squeaky clean couple Tommy (Ray Barlow) and Linda (Sue Bernard), also out for a desert joyride, the girls' invitation to drag race turns ugly. After a fistfight, Varla leaves Tommy for dead and kidnaps Linda. The three dangerous beauties then catch word of a feeble old man (Stuart Lancaster) out in the desert who is reportedly sitting on a large amount of money, and they set out to beat it out of him and his two sons. FASTER, PUSSYCAT!, though made for the raincoat crowd in the mid-1960s, has since transcended its humble origins to become a beloved cult classic. While treading territory similar to MOTORPSYCHO, director Russ Meyer's previous film, PUSSYCAT! turns the convention on its ear with what is possibly the toughest (and most glamorous) trio of femme fatales ever to hit the screen. As Varla, the iconic Satana creates a character who appears to literally fear nothing. While not Meyer's most financially successful film, it's most likely the one (along with 1970's BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS) that he will be remembered for. [More]

Starring: Tura Satana, Haji, Lori Williams, Susan Bernard

Starring: Tura Satana, Haji, Lori Williams, Susan Bernard, Ray Barlow, Dennis Busch, Stuart Lancaster, Paul Trinka

Director: Russ Meyer

Director: Russ Meyer
Screenwriter: Jack Moran

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

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
01/26/06
Time Out

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

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
03/28/07
Variety

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

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
03/28/07
TV Guide's Movie Guide

The shoestring production values are so weak, the story is so lame and the acting is so bad that there's no mistaking this Pussycat for anything but what it is - a turkey.

Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | comment Comment
01/01/00
Chris Hicks
Chris Hicks
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

Still as fun, twisted, and hilarious as ever.

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
01/01/00
Christopher Null
Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com

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

Full Review Source: Moviehole | comment Comment
10/22/05
Clint Morris
Clint Morris
Moviehole

Classic social satire and slapstick humor!

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02/20/07
Cole Smithey
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com

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 Source: Daily Radar | comment Comment
08/04/09
Cole Smithey
Cole Smithey
Daily Radar

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 Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | comment Comment
10/26/06
Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

No review available.

comment Comment
06/15/05
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

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

Full Review Source: Film and Felt | comment Comment
10/08/09
Gabe Leibowitz
Gabe Leibowitz
Film and Felt

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 Source: ReelViews | comment Comment
01/01/00
James Berardinelli
James Berardinelli
ReelViews
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When is Russ Meyer going to be taken seriously as an auteur?

Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
01/01/00
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

Has a cult following that I am hard-pressed to grasp.

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09/18/03
Ken Hanke
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

What a weird movie!

Full Review Source: Montreal Film Journal | comment Comment
09/10/02
Kevin N. Laforest
Kevin N. Laforest
Montreal Film Journal

This is the ultimate expression of the American cinema's greatest fetishes: big breasts, fast cars, tight jeans, and sudden death. This is, in its own way, one of the great films of the 60's.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
03/02/05
Kim Newman
Kim Newman
Empire Magazine

This is the quintessencial psychotronic film and Russ Meyer's best.

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
12/08/02
Kurt Ramschissel
Kurt Ramschissel
Film Threat

I've always felt that Faster, Pussycat! suffered from an absence of Meyer's usual creative flourishes.

Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | comment Comment
03/10/03
Marjorie Baumgarten
Marjorie Baumgarten
Austin Chronicle

An awful movie but a tremendous spectacle and a pinnacle of camp exuberance, NOT to be missed.

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08/15/03
Nick Davis
Nick Davis
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No review available.

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07/30/02
Philip Martin
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
 
 
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