Russ Meyer's Faster Pussycat Kill!..kill!
by Russ Meyer
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Actor: Haji, Lori Williams, Stuart Lancaster, Susan Bernard, Tura SatanaDirector: Russ Meyer
Brand: RM Films
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: NTSC
Running Time: 83 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-06-01
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Hauck Pub Co
Product features:
- Includes Four Rare Trailers
DVD Reviews of Russ Meyer's Faster Pussycat Kill!..kill!
DVD Review: "I never try anything. I just do it. And I don't beat clocks, just people! Wanna try me?"
Summary: 4 Stars
This is surely the mother of all cult films. Russ Meyer's FASTER, PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL! has everything you could ever want in a movie - fast cars, even faster women, violence, sex, dirty old men, dimwit girls, and the Watusi.
Go-go dancers Varla (Tura Satana), Rosie (Haji) and Billie (Lori Williams) head off into the desert with their cars for a few kicks. Meeting up with a preppy amateur speed-racer and his whiny teen girlfriend Linda (Sue Bernard), Varla challenges him to a race, which ends in his death and the young girl's kidnap. Varla and her gang then move on to an isolated house belonging to a wheelchair-bound old lech and his two yokel sons, whom they plan to rob; not quite realising that the old man is every bit as depraved and cunning as they are...
It's not every movie that you find yourself cheering on the "villain", but that's precisely what happens in FASTER, PUSSYCAT! (1965). Tura Satana's Varla is every cult movie fan's ultimate dream woman. She's sexy, she's stacked, she can kill you with her pinky finger. And she can spew out one-liners like nobody's business. Russ Meyer really hit the jackpot with Ms Satana, who at the time was just beginning to break into the movies (she was Suzette Wong, one of Shirley MacLaine's colleagues, in Billy Wilder's "Irma la Douce"), had trained in martial arts, and also worked as a real striptease dancer, so her role in FASTER, PUSSYCAT! wasn't entirely far-fetched for the late actress. It's a real pity that Meyer and Satana didn't continue their screen collaboration - any other director would have spun Varla off into an entire series of movies.
Haji is dynamite as Varla's partner (a subtext in the script paints Varla and Rosie as lesbian lovers, but Russ Meyer wisely didn't let the ladies in on the secret until filming wrapped!). Lori Williams is the "odd one out" in the trio of thrill-happy harlets. Known primarily for dancing in Elvis Presley and "Beach Party" movies, Williams contrasts dramatically with Satana and Haji, not only in her blonde looks, but also because she clearly doesn't hail from the same background in showbusiness. The less said about Sue Bernard's role of Linda the better. She's so annoyingly over-the-top that I wished Varla had slapped her more often. The men in the film serve only to act as the ladies' punching bags and bed-buddies; they are so cardboard that they make Varla and the girls seem even more full-blooded.
Recommended.
Description of Russ Meyer's Faster Pussycat Kill!..kill!
Black & White/83 Minutes Includes Four Rare Trailers FASTER PUSSYCAT, KILL! KILL! is the story of a new breed of SUPERWOMEN emerging out of the ruthlessness of our times. We are introduced to three BUXOM Go-Go girls: VARLA, ROSIE, and BILLIE, wildly dancing the Watusi before the leers, jeers and lecherous come-ons of their drooling all-male audience. The violence, implicit in the girls' tease, is quickly moved out of the microcosmic bar into the outside world as they literally let go of themselves, embarking on a wild, violent, deadly journey of vengeance on all men. VARLA, the outrageously abundant KARATE MASTER leader of the pack, breaks the arms and back of one man, runs her Porsche over two others, grinds a fourth, a muscleman, against a wall and, eventually, deliberately goes down the path of her own self-destruction, dragging her two BUXOTIC cohorts along with her.Bestsellers in DVD
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