Faster Pussycat Kill! Kill! (1966)

Rating: * * * * (Out of 5)

Thank you Hillary for alerting me to watch this on TCM. What an awesome film! This Russ Meyer cult classic is so straightfaced that you have no choice but to take it seriously. Yes, there are big breasted women; and yes, they shower and get their clothes wet a lot, and they catfight too; and yes, almost every frame is focused on either the women's breasts or their behinds, but it is more than just a sexploitation. Meyer's direction elevated it to something more. The breasts and the butts actually mean something (love it!), and the way the women flaunt them to intimate the men is priceless. Tura Santana scares me more than Glenn Close does in Fatal Attraction. Oh, and the 60's trash music by the Bostweeds is supercool.