Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Simple
- Violence
- Graphic
- campy
- provocative
- lurid
- cult movie night
- grindhouse double feature
What critics said
Critics broadly recognize the film's striking cult style and provocative exploitation energy while finding its script childish, melodramatic, and artistically weak.
What sets it apart
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The go-go dancers, sexual menace, desert violence, and melodramatic dialogue are presented with flamboyant pulp exaggeration.
Varla, Rosie, and Billie initiate the kidnapping, pursue the money, and dominate the men through coercion and seduction.
The rumored money at the old man's desert property attracts the women and structures their schemes.
The film repeatedly emphasizes go-go dancers, sports cars, stark desert space, and confrontational physicality.
Films like Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, and why
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
campy sexploitation, rebellious women, stylized violence, and transgressive pulp energy
The Big Doll House
female-centered exploitation, heightened melodrama, and provocative genre excess
Mudhoney
desert crime plotting, eroticized danger, and lurid exploitation tone
The Female Bunch
stylized low-budget crime, camp humor, and confrontational gender politics
Movie Details
- Director
- Russ Meyer
- Release Date
- 1965-08-06
- Runtime
- 83 min
- Rating
- 6.4 / 10 (381)
Cast
- Tura Satana
- Haji
- Lori Williams
- Sue Bernard
- Stuart Lancaster
- Paul Trinka
- Dennis Busch
- Ray Barlow
- John Furlong
- Michael Finn
Common questions
- What is Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! about?
- Three dangerous go-go dancers turn a desert kidnapping and cash hunt into a ferocious, flamboyant collision of sexploitation, crime, and camp.
- What is Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! as brisk, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as simple.
- Is Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! violent?
- Yes. Ember rates the violence in Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! as graphic.
- What did critics think of Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!?
- Critics broadly recognize the film's striking cult style and provocative exploitation energy while finding its script childish, melodramatic, and artistically weak.
- Which films are like Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!?
- Films with a similar feel include Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, The Big Doll House, Mudhoney, and The Female Bunch.
- How long is Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!?
- Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! runs 83 minutes.
