Trailer for Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill!
Friday, 22. June 2007, 05:48:52
YOU GIRLS A BUNCH OF NUDISTS OR YOU JUST SHORT OF CLOTHES
I was finally able to locate a decent quality trailer for Russ Meyer’s Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill! on youtube.com. I had a really nice one posted much earlier and the video was removed for some reason and I have held out until another good one came along. On a Russ Meyer note I picked up a copy of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls here in Beijing, along with Jess Franco’s Venus in Furs on the same day, and you can expect comments on them soon. Still one of the great cult classics of all time and Meyer’s best film by far. It is mythic in it rendering and the scenes are like b/w comic book panels with tough hitting comic book dialog that never ceases to titillate and tantalize . The acting and production is amazing(Meyer's directed, edited and photographed it all) and while the movie is utterly unbelievable and even absurd on most levels it never stops drawing you into its surreal and dangerous world. I managed to down load a copy from online. Very good quality really. Amazingly this movie bombed at the box office and did much worse than some of Meyer’s more inferior works. Maybe the mid-sixties was not ready for these tough talking and tougher acting gogo dancers who broke the necks of nerdy hotrod racing wannabes and threw switchblades into each other’s backs during arguments. In any case as time and social attitudes changed the movies became the hit it should have been when it was released. A last note is about the poster and publicity stills for this film. Who is this guy’s neck she is always breaking in the stills and posters, because is not the same guy in the movie. It is sort of weird really. The guy in the film is a wuss in plaid shorts who got in one good blow to Varla’s gut before she rearranged his spinal cord for him. A clip of the neck break scene in posted somewhere in the Café for your viewing pleasure.
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