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Summary: A movie way ahead of its time
Review: Although not his masterpiece, this is Meyer near his best. Though over thirty years old, this film stands up today with the best of them. It is a stylish and bizarre exploration into big-busted women who kick ass, but it is more than an exploration into high weirdness (though Lynch would be nothing without pioneers such as Meyer). Oddly enough Meyer's work here can be considered the first truly artistic film promoting feminism. Always being sly, behind the T&A shots and seeming self-indulgence, Meyer always portrays male characters as lusty, sniveling idiots, while the women are hip, progressives, with brains that almost match their bodies. Meyer is a true force in film, as he is among the first to impose the director or creator as a key element in the art of a film (something Allen is usually credited with). This is a milestone achievement in film, especially since the viewer is challenged to see its brilliance and must be tempted to cast it aside. -Chris Coffman
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Summary: SEE THIS ONE!...
Review: Atypical Russ Meyer movie that features none of his exploitive trademarks but actually concentrates on characterizations of his three stars---the incomparable Tura Satana, sultry Haji, and way-out California girl Lori Williams. Great b&w photography as the girls(go-go dancers in a sleazy club) head out in wild sports cars into the desert in search of thrills. Well, they get 'em when Satana kills a guy and they abduct his screaming idiot girlfriend. They hide out at a desert ranch headed by a VERY weird father/son clan. Satana believes there's a lot of moola on the property somewhere and she aims to find it one way or another. Acting is above-average for a Meyer piece and the film is consistently watchable throughout. No nudity(except for some tasteful bare-back shots as they bathe after the desert incident) and the women are not stupid but tired of being used. This is a first-rate bona-fide cult classic right here and deserves a pristine transfer to DVD. A MUST SEE.
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Summary: The Point IS of No Return, and You've Reached It!
Review: Don't ask me about this film because I'll never shut up. It's my favorite movie of all time. Hands down. I saw it first at the Film Forum Theatre in NYC in 1984. Since then I've owned bootleg copies and watched them so many times that if I had a 40 inch chest, I could BE in this movie! I know every line by heart.
What a kick (pardon the pun) to see Varla beating up... [a man]. Her nasty attitude rivals any screen villian ever. Darth Vader looks like Mickey Mouse compared to her....
I have had the immense pleasure of meeting Tura Satana, Haji & Laurie Williams & Russ Meyer several times. Russ is a bit weird, but the women are sweet & gracious. Although it's obvious that Tura truly is tough & will kick ...[butt] if she's pushed hard enough! Check out her website! She's the greatest!... Judge for yourself. Either way, you'll never be the same.
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Summary: Tura Santana rules!
Review: Easily Russ Meyer's best film to date. This movie has it all: fast cars, voluptuous, beautiful women (they don't make 'em like that anymore!) and the dumb guys they have to beat into submission in order to get their way! The opening voiceover narration grabs your attention from the get-go with it's hard-boiled style right out of a Sam Fuller movie. A lot of critics have slammed the film for its amateurish dialogue but it has just the right B-movie vibe. Surprisingly tame by today's standards, FASTER, PUSSYCAT nevertheless is refreshingly un-PC in its attitude. The women in this film don't take any crap -- especially Varla (played to perfection by Tura Santana) who talks tough and backs it up with action (including the climatic scene where she breaks a guy's back with her bare hands!). Forget the CGI'ed CHARLIE'S ANGELS, this movie is the real deal.
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Summary: Great cult film with a bit of experimental flavor
Review: Go-go dancers, 60's rock music, independent women, fast cars - one would think that this was a Tarantino flick. But it isn't. Forty years ago, this film journeyed out into a territory where it would not follow, only be followed. Like the California desert where the femme-fatales raced their cars, this film forces the individual to come forward.
There is a complexity in this film epitomized in the women. The antogonists are brash, violent, and selfish. They prey upon others and live for the moment. Yet there are no blameless victims here. Even the innocent girl, Linda, must bloody her hands before she can "find herself". Yet, every woman is beautiful here. Thus, there is a tension between the beauty that society ascribes to form and the ugliness ascribed to actions.
The story stands the test of time. Sure, there have been female "revenge"/empowerment films through the years, but few display the genuine nature of woman's angst like this film. Only in recent years, with, perhaps, Tarantino's Kill Bill set, has the topic of the aggressive woman seen justice. Here, society can see "the other side."
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Summary: Faster Pussycat Kill Kill-Undisputed Classic!
Review: I absolutely love this film.
It's starts with some classic nonsensical voiceover about the violence lurking in women and the unmistakable "smell of female" before cutting to our three stars dancing at the go-go club for some disturbingly enthusiastic male patrons. "go baby go go go!"
We're quickly brought to the dessert where our story unfolds. Apparently these three unbelievably buxom ladies are a "team" of sorts who don't mind a little violence and mayhem which is quickly proved when their leader kills a man with her bare hands and then kidnaps his whiny girlfriend. They hatch a plan to rob an old local miser of his life savings. The miser is shockingly misogynistic and has two sons, one of whom is a muscle bound vegetable. The details and background of these two is slowly revealed through some incredible patches of dialogue which border on campy but maintain a sort of dark edge. And while there is no nudity or sex depicted anywhere in the film, it is somehow a constant presence: Billie's hillarious attempts at seducing the "vegetable", Varla's gravity defying neckline, the leering old man-it's all sex without being overly graphic unlike later Russ Meyer films. The dialogue is insanely quotable as it just gets weirder and weirder:the dinner scene is just amazing. "I never try anything I just do it. Wanna try me?" You Tarzan Me Jane, now grab a vine and let's swing" "when I've had enough of this (whiskey) it's been known to be passin'-out-time!" "we don't like anything soft. Everything we touch is hard" All the "guilty" characters (which is almost everyone) get their comeuppance in the end in a variety of gruesome deaths. There really aren't words to do this film justice. It is a full-on over the top, sexually charged, near camp, film noir masterpiece. Watch it again and again and again.
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Summary: Faster Pussycat Kill Kill-Undisputed Classic!
Review: I absolutely love this film.
It's starts with some classic nonsensical voiceover about the violence lurking in women and the unmistakable "smell of female" before cutting to our three stars dancing at the go-go club for some disturbingly enthusiastic male patrons. "go baby go go go!"
We're quickly brought to the dessert where our story unfolds. Apparently these three unbelievably buxom ladies are a "team" of sorts who don't mind a little violence and mayhem which is quickly proved when their leader kills a man with her bare hands and then kidnaps his whiny girlfriend. They hatch a plan to rob an old local miser of his life savings. The miser is shockingly misogynistic and has two sons, one of whom is a muscle bound vegetable. The details and background of these two is slowly revealed through some incredible patches of dialogue which border on campy but maintain a sort of dark edge. And while there is no nudity or sex depicted anywhere in the film, it is somehow a constant presence: Billie's hillarious attempts at seducing the "vegetable", Varla's gravity defying neckline, the leering old man-it's all sex without being overly graphic unlike later Russ Meyer films. The dialogue is insanely quotable as it just gets weirder and weirder:the dinner scene is just amazing. "I never try anything I just do it. Wanna try me?" You Tarzan Me Jane, now grab a vine and let's swing" "when I've had enough of this (whiskey) it's been known to be passin'-out-time!" "we don't like anything soft. Everything we touch is hard" All the "guilty" characters (which is almost everyone) get their comeuppance in the end in a variety of gruesome deaths. There really aren't words to do this film justice. It is a full-on over the top, sexually charged, near camp, film noir masterpiece. Watch it again and again and again.
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Summary: Quite possibly my favorite movie ever!
Review: Ok, this movie isn't thick on plot. The acting isn't really award winning. Then why is this one of my favorite movies of all time? Simply because this is as COOL a movie as you will ever see. So many movies have actors/actresses pretending to be cool. Some movies seem to try so hard to be hip. This movie doesn't try, it just does it! The women in this movie don't have to pretend. They are the real deal. The 3 women in FPKK are the coolest, sexiest femme fatales you will ever see on film. Tura Satana is the hippest chick ever to grace the silver screen. She is scary as hell, yet what a sexy babe. I can't recall a female lead who was scaring me, wooing me, turning me on, and repulsing me all at the same time. Each shot in the movie is like a work of art. Shot in black and white, this movie has a timeless look. The soundtrack is great. It is a very, very stylish movie. It is a joy to watch. The action is fast and furious. There is never a dull moment. You must see this movie!
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Summary: Welcome to Violence
Review: One of the all-time classic cult movies of the 1960's - worth it just to hear Satana shouting orders at her well-endowed cohorts and wisecracking at all the guys. I love the beginning so much I recorded the narration on audio tape. I wholeheartedly agree with film critic Danny Peary, it's the perfect drive in movie, chock full of action sequences (plus the sound is so atrocious you wouldn't miss anything seeing it at a drive-in). Probably the most FUN of Meyer's films, because it really doesn't take itself that seriously. I love watching people rock back and forth in the cars during the closeups, to give the illusion that they are the ones actually driving (they look like they were filmed on one of those little kiddie-car rides you see outside of department stores). And it's SO ODD to see a film, made by MEN, in which a woman beats several men senseless (killing one and almost killing another). You have to wonder why tough Satana wasn't in more films (she would've been perfect with Pam Grier . . together they're the two coolest women in movies).
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Summary: Russ Meyer's homage to the violence in women.
Review: Produced, Edited, Written and Directed by the great Russ Meyer, FASTER PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL! is less overtly sexual than his later work; (To my knowledge this is the only Meyer movie in NZ to have an unrestricted rating) but is still a highly enjoyable & wonderfully politically incorrect cult fave.
The story revolves around three sexy female car club members Varla (Tura Satana), Rosie (Haji) & Billie (Lori Williams) who accept the task of safely delivering home the daughter of a high profile public figure in order to avoid all the media hoopla, for a sizable amount of cash.
Their simple road trip soon takes an unexpected turn when they run out of gas & they are forced to shack up with a paraplegic old man (Stuart Lancaster)& his dimwitted weightlifting son Kirk (Paul Trinka). Naturally in true Meyer fashion the girls use their sex appeal to get what they want- & their feet & fists- this IS Meyer's "homage to the violence in women" after all!
FASTER PUSSYCAT KILL KILL is also noteworthy because this movie is actually very feminist minded at its core- so basically Meyer seems to be good-naturedly slapping his critics in the face with this movie. Good on him.
If you've never seen a Russ Meyer film before, here is probably a good starting point; after that I'd recommend you track down copies of BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS; CHERRY, HARRY & RAQUEL and VIXEN. So check this one out & celebrate an era before Political Correctness started to contaminate everything- especially Kiwis; before Labour & the Greens pass a law stating that all DVD players must run on methane gas in order to conserve energy!
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