Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

Name: Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
Genre: Action, Comedy
Released: August 6, 1965
Duration: 83 min
Rating: 65
Cast: Dennis Busch, Haji, John Furlong, Lori Williams, Michael Finn

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Eve Productions | Release Date: August 6, 1965 | TV-14

Starring: Dennis Busch, Haji, John Furlong, Lori Williams, Michael Finn, Paul Trinka, Ray Barlow, Stuart Lancaster, Sue Bernard, Tura Satana

Summary: Three go-go dancers holding a young girl hostage come across a crippled old man living with his two sons in the desert. After learning he's hiding a sum of cash around, the women start scheming on him.

Director: Russ Meyer

Genre(s): Action, Comedy

Rating: TV-14

Runtime: 83 min

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Empire Kim Newman

With its driving jazz score, hilarious dialogue and overdrive melodramatics, 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. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

Probably the most lighthearted and enjoyable of Meyer's films, Faster, Pussycat was embraced by a new generation during its art-house re-release in 1994; many viewers detected a feminist subtext beneath its extravagantly campy surface. Read full review

Roger Ebert

What attracts audiences is not sex and not really violence, either, but a Pop Art fantasy image of powerful women, filmed with high energy and exaggerated in a way that seems bizarre and unnatural, until you realize Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Steven Seagal play more or less the same characters. Without the bras, of course. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

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

James Berardinelli

Pussycat is classic Meyer. The three leads are all topheavy, the action-packed plot is paper-thin, there are loads of double-entendres amidst the cheesy dialogue, and the style is pure low-budget. This is fun stuff, to be sure, but definitely of the "guilty pleasure" sort. Read full review

Stephen Holden

Although crudely acted, with laughably inept action sequences and a story that makes little sense, it has the feverish pulse of a classic B movie, boldly angular cinematography and a blaringly cheesy jazz soundtrack. Read full review

Marjorie Baumgarten

The director's distinctive editing style, so commonplace today but so unusual for its time, is scarcely apparent in this movie. Also, Meyer's films tend to share a ribald and genuinely funny sense of humor that here gets usurped by a mean and nasty impulse that tends to block out the humor and exaggeration. Read full review

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ComandanteCobra

Jun 4, 2019

If you want to know what a typical " Exploitation B movie" of the 60's is...just watch this.
Mayer's movie classic with: bizzarre framing, beautiful girls, exagerated "violence", good soundtrack, fast pacing. Entertaining, original and unusual even today; just watch it with the rightIf you want to know what a typical " Exploitation B movie" of the 60's is...just watch this.
Mayer's movie classic with: bizzarre framing, beautiful girls, exagerated "violence", good soundtrack, fast pacing. Entertaining, original and unusual even today; just watch it with the right mindset.
A must see for films nerds but not suitable for young audience of course.… Expand

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