Does it get any
better than Russ Meyer's exploitation classic FASTER PUSSYCAT!
KILL! KILL!? Beginning in a ridiculous strip bar full of the most
intense patrons on earth, Meyer wastes no time laying down the
sleaze in what John Waters considers the greatest movie ever made.
Filmed in beautiful black and white we are introduced to three go-go
dancin', cat-fighting, drag-racing, kung-fu fighting, buxom beauties
played with gusto by Lori Williams, Haji, and of course the one and
only Tura Satana. The three bad asses spend the day drag-racing and
go-go dancing on a strip of desert when they meet up with a goofy teen
couple out to test their ride. Evil Tura Satana (Varla) clad in a hip
hugging, breast exposing, black suit challenges the kid and the four
are off. A breathtaking (well maybe not so breathtaking) race ends with
Satana driving the kid off the course by trying to ram into him. Then
shit gets ugly.
Satana challenges the dude to a fight rolling around on the ground
rasslin and kung fu chopping, "You can still drive away buster!" she
warns but my man sucker punches her to the gut and clocks her with a
viscous right to the face! What comes next has got to be one of the
greatest moments in American cinema, a bloody faced Satana goes in a
kung fu choppin' frenzy tossing the guy to the ground and in shocking
fashion pulls his arms behind his back, puts her foot on his back, yanks
and snaps the fellas spine!!
The
girls kidnap and drug the dead mans girl and head off to rob a crippled
old man of his hidden stash. A perverted old codger, a muscle bound
retard, and a venom spewing Satana meet up in a classic film of unchallenged
greatness. Almost every line is hilarious and all actors right on, Lori
Williams breaks into go-go steps out of nowhere, Haji picks her teeth
as she delivers an insanely overdone accent (why do you botha with her
huh? sheeza nothin' but trouble!), and of course Tura Satana done up
in complete black from head to toe is jaw-dropping.
Tura
Satana is something else in this film. The odd half Apache, half Japanese
actress was a former stripper and a Karate expert! For some unknown
reason she only starred in two other films: Ted Mikels' The Astro-Zombies
and his Doll Squad. What a waste.
How could Meyer not have done a complete film trilogy with these
incredible character?! Whatever happened to bad ass, big breasted villains
in film? Screw CAMERON DIAZ!! BE GONE MICHELLE PFIEFFER! All of you
goofy, boring emaciated actresses can go to hell! LONG LIVE TURA SATANA!
The trio recently appeared in Secaucus, New Jersey at the Chiller Convention,
they where nice as hell, check out stills from the film and Debased
hanging out with the three coolest woman characters ever!