Capital Celluloid 2018 - Day 243: Mon Sep 10

Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (Meyer, 1965): Regent Street Cinema, 8.30pm


This screening is part of the Scalarama London season this year. You can find details of all the events in the capital during September here. This is part of a double-bill with John Waters' Female Trouble (full information here) and was chosen by Jane Giles, whose book on the Scala Cinema is published to coincide with the Scalarama season.

Time Out review:
This shows Russ Meyer to be a fine action director as well as America's best-known tit man. Though decorated with the usual array of top-heavy starlets - a trio of homicidal disco dancers on rest-and-recreation in the Californian desert (which means fast cars and whatever kinky thrills come their way) - it was in fact made as an exploiter for the Southern states' undemanding drive-in market. A cheap and efficient comic horror movie, it's funniest when its dialogue and characters' behaviour are at their most non sequitur. The twaddlesome plot about the cover-up of a man's murder by the (lesbian) leader of this girlie gang is helped enormously by a brooding music score which sounds as if it had walked in from a paranoid Cold War sci-fi film; and the weirdo desert farmhouse family the trio happen upon pre-dates 
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 
by almost a decade.

Here (and above) is the trailer.

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