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, provocative overcoming gender assignments, 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.

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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.

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