Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

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Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! original poster
Directed by	Russ Meyer
Produced by	Russ Meyer
Written by	Jack Moran
Starring	Tura Satana, Haji, Lori Williams, Susan Bernard
Cinematography	Walter Schenk
Editing by	Russ Meyer
Release date(s)	1965
Running time	83 min.
Country	USA
Language	English
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Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! is a 1965 film written by Jack Moran, directed by Russ Meyer and starring Tura Satana as Varla. The film features gratuitous violence, sexuality, and outrageously campy dialogue. It has become a cult film favorite and has been widely referred to in pop culture.

It is one of Meyer's more provocatively titled and explicitly exploitative films, yet unlike most of his films it does not contain explicit nudity.

[edit] Plot

The movie is about three thrill-seeking go-go dancers headed by the particularly fierce Varla, who are chanced upon by a young couple in the desert. After killing the boyfriend, Varla decides to drug the young girlfriend and take her along. The first stop on a long and desolate highway brings the foursome a telling old gas-station attendant who shares a story with them. This story results in Varla's scheme to rob a crippled, perverse, old man living with his two sons in a worn down ranch. Varla meets her match in this crippled old man who has a lust for the female flesh that can only be satiated vicariously through violence. The culmination of this vivid battle of some sort of wits is a sort of bloodbath from which only the young kidnapee and a moral and just son emerge with a second chance.

[edit] References

• Tracii Guns, after leaving Guns N' Roses in the mid 80's, decided to form his own band named after the movie, but decided to re-use his old band name L.A. Guns instead. Close friend Taime Downe then took the name and created the sleaze metal band Faster Pussycat.
• an episode of Itchy and Scratchy called "Foster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" (in which Scratchy becomes Itchy's foster parent)
• the Spice Girls' music video for Say You'll Be There.
• the Canadian film Hard Core Logo, in which a punk rocker suggests "Faster Leonard Cohen! Die! Die!" as a possible band name.
• an Art Car that frequented the East Village in the early 1990s. It was a Volkswagen Microbus which among other ornamentation had "Faster Hellbus! Kill! Kill!" painted on the passenger's door.
• The Killers' music video for All These Things That I've Done features images based on the movie.
• White Zombie song Thunder Kiss '65.
• The Cramps have recorded a cover of the film's theme song on their album, Smell of Female.
• Kid Koala has sampled dialogue from the film for use in his DJ sets.
• Michael T. Huyck's Hastur Pussycat! Kill! Kill! anthology combines the film with H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos.
• Beborn Beton's song Bittersweet opens with the same line that opens the movie narrative.
• Quasimoto (aka Madlib) begin his first album The Unseen with lines sampled from the opening narration.

[edit] External links

• Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! at the Internet Movie Database
• The #1 Fan Site to Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

The films of Russ Meyer

The French Peep Show (1950) • The Immoral Mr. Teas (1959) • This Is My Body (1959) • Eve and the Handyman (1960) • Naked Camera (1960) • Erotica (1961) • Wild Gals of the Naked West (1962) • Europe in the Raw (1963) • Heavenly Bodies! (1963) • Skyscrapers and Brassieres (1963) • Lorna (1964) • Fanny Hill (1964) • Mudhoney (1965) • Motorpsycho (1965) • Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965) • Mondo Topless (1966) • Common Law Cabin (1967) • Good Morning and... Goodbye! (1967) • Finders Keepers, Lovers Weepers! (1968) • Vixen! (1968) • Cherry, Harry & Raquel! (1969) • Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970) • The Seven Minutes (1971) • Blacksnake (1972) • Supervixens (1975) • Up! (1976) • Who Killed Bambi? (1978) • Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens (1979) • Pandora Peaks (2001)