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Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

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Starring: Tura Satana

Lori Williams

Haji

Susan Bernard

Stuart Lancaster

Paul Trinka

Dennis Busch

Directed by Russ Meyers

1965

Length: 83 minutes

Rating: 3 out of 5 stars

I suppose it would be an injustice for a column dedicated to movie reviews in an e-zine devoted to Female Domination not to review Russ Meyer’s 1965 film “Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!”

After inventing the skin flick with "The Immoral Mr. Teas" (1959), Meyer had, by the mid-1960s, moved beyond the nudie market. In films such as "Lorna," "Mud Honey," and "Faster, Pussycat" Russ Meyer branched out into the wider exploitation market dominated by American-International Pictures. Of all his early films, "Faster, Pussycat" has found the widest audience. And while it made money in 1965, it now enjoys a cult following and has had huge grosses in Germany and France, has had a punk rock band named after it and can be seen on American television on Turner Classic Movies. That’s where I saw it.

While it was known for combining sex and violence, what attracts audiences is not sex and not really violence, either, but rather the image of powerful women.