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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Black & White, Commentary, Featurette, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: Welcome to the world of female violence. Meet the sumptuously sexy Varla, played at full throttle and with well-upholstered relish by the half-Japanese, half-Cherokee Tura Satana. She's having a lovely time with her two go-going pals, dancing the Watusi in a sleazy bar packed with leering, jeering macho-men. And after a hard day's grooving, what better than a drag race in the desert? So it's off we go, hurtling across the California sands as we follow the trio of homicidal go-go gals, hell bent on wreaking revenge on all things male, as they embark on a desperate desert drive-thru, taking a bikini-clad wimp hostage and leaving a trail of human wreckage in their wake. Filmed in glorious black and blue, Faster Pussycat has been hailed as "the best movie ever made" and a "definite Desert Island Movie". Celluloid proof that Russ Meyer is a complete and utter cult. ...Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (UK) ( Faster Pussycat! Wham! Bang! ) ( Faster, Pussycat! Go! Go! )
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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This film is as good if not better than Pulp Fiction. It may be from the 60s, but it's one of those films where you get drawn into its world from the very first scene, and you're transported into another dimension that doesn't seem to belong to any time-frame. There are no rules or structural cliches that 99.9% of other films insist on conforming to, yet the narrative and overall plot-line is strong throughout. It never gets boring. The central theme of female empowerment and independence doesn't grate like it does with so many other films which focus on that issue. It's just a surreal, high-octane work of genius from start to finish.
Definitely in my top 10 films of all time. Although I have to say I've seen five or six subsequent films by Russ Meyer and they were all rubbish.
Definitely in my top 10 films of all time. Although I have to say I've seen five or six subsequent films by Russ Meyer and they were all rubbish.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Russ Meyer has to be one of the most under-rated directors of all-time. His films are comicbook and cartoonish in style, everything is exaggerated. Men are generally portrayed as weak, impotent losers to which his powerful, oversexed women throw scorn and ridicule. This film is no exception. And along with FW Murnau's Expressionist masterpiece "Faust", "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" also features one of my favourite opening sequences to any film. Go baby, go!
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This is probably Russ Meyer's finest hour - a Tarantino style movie following a group of angry women, on a tour of random violence in rural California.
The violence must have been truly shocking in the day, especially as it is being dished out by women - in that aspect it reminds me of something from the Clockwork Orange [1972] [DVD] mould, or if you look at it more recently - and much closer in style, it looks like a model for Kill Bill 1 and 2 (Box Set) [DVD] [2003].
As opposed to Meyer's other movies, the sex aspect is relatively muted / in the background, so apart from the ample cleavage, it's all completely PC. There is plenty of double entendreing, which might have been risque in the day (in fact some of the dialogue would be right at home in the earlier James Bond movies) but appears mostly sarcastic, if seen from a today's viewers perspective.
The driving is largely comical (accelerating the camera a bit much at times), the acting is often completely indifferent (the pained expressions of all the women but Tura Satana when behind the wheel are a laugh out loud thing in their own right) but the whole plot and dialogue is relatively neat and overall it's good fun. In some ways, it looks like a spiritual predecessor to a movie like Clerks [DVD] [1993] as well as the more commonly mentioned Pulp Fiction [DVD] [1994] and while not passing over every theme of the day, like Meyer's later Vixen [1968] [DVD] was, it is still a milestone in portraying the changing gender roles in the 1960s.
The violence must have been truly shocking in the day, especially as it is being dished out by women - in that aspect it reminds me of something from the Clockwork Orange [1972] [DVD] mould, or if you look at it more recently - and much closer in style, it looks like a model for Kill Bill 1 and 2 (Box Set) [DVD] [2003].
As opposed to Meyer's other movies, the sex aspect is relatively muted / in the background, so apart from the ample cleavage, it's all completely PC. There is plenty of double entendreing, which might have been risque in the day (in fact some of the dialogue would be right at home in the earlier James Bond movies) but appears mostly sarcastic, if seen from a today's viewers perspective.
The driving is largely comical (accelerating the camera a bit much at times), the acting is often completely indifferent (the pained expressions of all the women but Tura Satana when behind the wheel are a laugh out loud thing in their own right) but the whole plot and dialogue is relatively neat and overall it's good fun. In some ways, it looks like a spiritual predecessor to a movie like Clerks [DVD] [1993] as well as the more commonly mentioned Pulp Fiction [DVD] [1994] and while not passing over every theme of the day, like Meyer's later Vixen [1968] [DVD] was, it is still a milestone in portraying the changing gender roles in the 1960s.
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camp, violent and brilliant!
The girls in this film don't pull any punches: they are a bit unhinged and under the leadership of Varla, are prepared to use a cocktail of sex and violence to bring their evil... Read more
Published 3 months ago by schumann_bg
kill kill kill
No no no . I did not see this as a cult classic or a great lesbian film but something i am giving straight to the charity shop . Read more
Published 6 months ago by cartoon
Sexy Fun
You will either love it or hate it, there is no middle ground. Russ Meyer's masterpiece, a unique style of action, women, and cleavage! Read more
Published 16 months ago by D. P. Parks
Fun...but dated
This dvd costs 3 times as much in the usa (aka:"the colonies") as it does in the UK - so I ordered it here. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Matthew David Sweat
Not my type of film at all
In my opinion, the acting was awful, the script was awful, this can not be considered a lesbian film in any way.
Published on 19 May 2010 by Clarky
Amazing...
If you've not seen it, watch it. An excellent film on all counts. It transports you to another world and you carnt take your eyes of it for a second. Read more
Published on 4 Jan 2008 by redmanshouts
A. Sengupta "GO YAKUZA"
Oh man! This is so funny. It actually has a real story line for you to pay attention to, if you're not paying attention to thier "deadly" assets. Read more
Published on 28 May 2007 by A. Sengupta
Bravo, Arrow Films! ...More! More!
That larger-than-life classic, "Faster Pussycat...", finally gets the grand DVD treatment it deserves. Read more
Published on 5 Feb 2006 by J.D. Guinness
At last, ON DVD!!
Oh yess.. I waited this for so long, and now I got it in DVD. Wonder it isn't sold in the US. For region reason, I guess. Read more
Published on 13 April 2005 by ugroseno
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