Greetings and salutations. We are at
Day 5 of Grindhouse Flicks and what better way to end this week but a
Femme Fatale Jiggly Girl film? Okay, that might be a bit mean but
we are relying exploitation/sexploitation writer/director Russ Meyer
(Eve and the Handyman, Heavenly Bodies!, Erotica, Motorpsycho!,
Vixens, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, The Seven Minutes and Black
Snake) so expect... well mud wrestling and buxom girls.
This is Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
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| Sexploitation?? Where? |
Our anti-heroines Varla (exotic
dancer Tura Satana of Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?, The Man from
U.N.C.L.E., Our Man Flint, The Astro-Zombies and the Doll Squad)
rough girl Rosie (Haji of Motorpsycho!, Beyond the Valley of
the Dolls, Up Your Alley, Supervixens, Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil
Sheiks, Hughes and Harlow: Angels in Hell and Demonoid: Messenger of
Death) and ditzy blonde Billie (Lori Williams of Honey
West, A Swingin' Summer, The Long, Hot Summer, It's a Bikini World,
Love, American Style and the Marvelous Land of Oz) are three
strippers....I mean go-go dancers looking for kicks and thrills and
racing cars in the desert.
As they are done with racing each other
they find a a couple out zipping around and decide to race these two
in a time trial. After the race, Varla just snaps doofy boyfriend's
neck like it was kinling and given the size of her She-Hulk physique,
I can buy that. She also abducts the late doofus's girlfriend Linda
(Susan Bernard of Stranger in Hollywood, The Witchmaker, That
Tender Touch, The Phynx and Necromancy) because...well she is
a lesbian and doofus can't please her or you know ever could. Hey he
was a doofus not seeing that Varla is clearly off her rocker. Next
incarnation have a sawed-off under the car seat.
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| Ryan Reynolds hitches a ride in the TARDIS. |
They stop for gas in this one horse
town and encounter a zany old guy which credits call him "the
Old Man". Classy. The Old Man (Stuart Lancaster of The Born
Losers, Lila, The Secret Sex Lives of Romeo and Juliet, The Satin
Mushroom. The Seven Minutes and Mistress of the Apes) is kooky
because of a railway of accident and an inheritance of some serious
coin of the realm. Varla starts getting ideas to follow him and
search his ranch for the cash... with their captive hostage still in
tow.
Varla lands on a plan to seduce the Old
Man's eldest son Kirk (Paul Trinka of It's a Man's World, Fate
Is the Hunter, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Land of the Giants
and Night Gallery) has some smoochy face with the clueless
lad. Linda manages to escape Billie who decided to get bombed off
her butt instead of keeping an eye on her.
This whole thing is going pear shaped
Varla just tells the girls we are greasing everyone to cover up the
kidnapping and the previous murder. Yeah not enough to kidnap and a
homicide but this kooky dame wants to add 3 more bodies to the mix,
thus pre-meditated and now moving into first-degree murder. Oh why
are the hot ones always crazed murderers??
Will Kirk see through Varla's facade
and shoulder roll his way to kicking her ass? Will the Gorn eat the
Old Man?? Does Rosie get many lines or what?
Just jotting a few notes of interest on
the flick. While a complete bomb at the box office in its original
release, folks of the VHS era found it to be odd but entertaining
while other felt it was a blow to the lesbian and feminist community
and well yeah it really is a slap in the face to both. The cult
following of the movie brings so many pop culture references to this
flick I will try to catch them all.
American glam metal band Faster
Pussycat clearly took the name from the movie. Dialogue from the
picture itself has been lifted and spread over (kinky)
four songs in White Zombie for Thunder Kiss '65, Welcome to the
Planet Motherf**ker, Black Sunshine and Cosmic Monsters, Inc. Oh
Rob and your love of exploitation.
Hell, punk band the Cramps
released a cover of Faster Pussycat on their mini-album in '83 Smell
of Female. As
for me...well I was kinda bored to tears up until the third act so
not a saving grace there.
Some gorgeous cinematography filmed in
glorious 35mm black and white with the Mitchell BNC (Blimped
Newreel Camera) great for sound shot capture and gets great
zoom and pan out shots. Of course they shot in Mojave Desert so I
was stoked as it was giving the two ghost towns Randsburg and
Johansburg filming all the action it got. For good or bad, Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! Has made a massive impact on American culture whether it likes it or not
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| You owe us each for the lapdance, Old Man. |
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