Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (Meyer, 1965): BFI Southbank, NFT1, 9pm
This 35mm presentation is part of the 'Scala: Sex, drugs and rock and roll cinema' season
at BFI Southbank. The screening on January 18th is introduced by filmscholar and write Virginie Selavy. The movie also screens on January 2nd. Full details here.
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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