Faster Pussycat! Kill Kill! (1966) by Russ Meyer
Sunday, December 18, 1983, 8:00 pm
Russ Meyer/Azteca Films
Faster Pussycat! Kill Kill!, U.S.A., 1966, 83 min., B&W.
Although on one level Russ Meyer has been known as the American soft-core porn king, the originality of his low-budget independent films have rarely been equalled in American movies. Filtered through an often hilariously bawdy vision of American values, Meyer’s early films have an action-packed energy which is pure cinema. Faster Pussycat… is a witty salute to Aeschylus, pitting three furies disguised as gogo dancers against various unsuspecting mortals.
Wrestling Woman vs. The Aztec Mummy, Mexico, 1964, 88 min., English dubbed, B&W.
This all-Mexican cheapie production was part of an on-going flirtation with the horror genre during the ’50s and ‘60s. The bargain-basement plot includes women wrestlers, ancient and cursed Aztec treasures, and a villain ominously dressed like Bela Lugosi — a fascinating glimpse of an alternate universe.