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Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
Original poster
Directed by	Russ Meyer
Produced by	Russ Meyer
Written by	Jack Moran Russ Meyer
Starring	Tura Satana Haji Lori Williams Susan Bernard
Music by	Paul Sawtell
Cinematography	Walter Schenk
Editing by	Russ Meyer
Release date(s)	1965
Running time	83 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$45,000[1]
Box office	$36,122[2]

Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! is a 1965 exploitation film directed by Russ Meyer, who also wrote the script with Jack Moran. It stars Tura Satana, Haji, and Lori Williams.

The film features gratuitous violence, sexuality, provocative gender roles, and camp dialogue. It is one of Meyer's more boldly titled and unflinchingly exploitative films; however, there is no nudity.

The film was shot in the extreme western parts of the Mojave Desert. However, some of the scenes appear to have been filmed farther east, near Baker, California. The last scenes in the film were made west of California City. The rail line running between Mojave and Trona, California is clearly evident.

Plot [edit]

Three thrill-seeking go-go dancers—Billie (Lori Williams), Rosie (Haji), and their leader, Varla (Tura Satana)—encounter a young couple in the desert while racing their sports cars. After killing the boyfriend (Ray Barlow) with her bare hands, Varla drugs, binds, gags and kidnaps his girlfriend, Linda (Susan Bernard). On a desolate highway, the four stop at a gas station, where they see a wheelchair-bound old man (Stuart Lancaster) and his muscular, dimwitted son, Vegetable (Dennis Busch). The gas station attendant (Mickey Foxx) tells the women that the old man and his two sons live on a decrepit ranch with a hidden cache of money. Intrigued, Varla hatches a scheme to rob the lecherous old man.

Cast [edit]

• Tura Satana as Varla
• Haji as Rosie
• Lori Williams as Billie
• Susan Bernard as Linda
• Stuart Lancaster as The Old Man
• Paul Trinka as Kirk
• Dennis Busch as The Vegetable
• Ray Barlow as Tommy
• Mickey Foxx as Gas Station Attendant
• John Furlong as Narrator

Use in popular culture [edit]

• Audio samples of the quotes "You're all shook up, aren't you baby?" and "I never try anything I just do it. Wanna try me?" are used in the White Zombie song "Thunder Kiss '65".
• Audio samples of the quotes "I never try anything I just do it." and "You've got a weird sense of humor; Try again, I get funnier." are both used in Kid Koala's "Scratchcratchratchatch" mix tape recording.
• In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Passion", Xander Harris encourages Buffy and the others to go after the vampire Angelus, saying "If Giles wants to go after the, uh, fiend that murdered his girlfriend I say, "Faster pussycat, kill kill."
• An audio sample of the quote, "I work on this baby the same way, trying to get maximum performance" is used in the White Zombie song, "Black Sunshine".
• The glam metal band Faster Pussycat took their name from the film.
• An Itchy and Scratchy short entitled "Foster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" is shown in the Simpsons episode "Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily".
• The title of Daniel Clowes' graphic novel Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron is taken from a line in this movie, addressing Varla.
• The music video for the Spice Girls' single "Say You'll Be There" was inspired by the film.

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v t e Films directed by Russ Meyer 1950s The French Peep Show (1950, short) The Immoral Mr. Teas (1959) 1960s The Naked Camera (1961, short) Erotica (1961, short) Eve & The Handyman (1961) Wild Gals of the Naked West (1962) Europe In The Raw (1963, short) Heavenly Bodies! (1963, short) Skyscapers & Brassieres (1963, short) Fanny Hill (1964) Lorna (1964) Mudhoney (1965) Motorpsycho (1965) Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965) Mondo Topless (1966, mockumentary) Common Law Cabin (1967) Good Morning and... Goodbye! (1967) Finders Keepers, Lovers Weepers! (1968) Vixen! (1968) 1970s Cherry, Harry & Raquel! (1970) Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970) The Seven Minutes (1971) Blacksnake (1973) Supervixens (1975) Up! (1976) Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens (1979) 2000s Pandora Peaks (2001, mockumentary) other Who Killed Bambi? (1978, unfinished)