What was the budget for Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!?
There are four sportscars (a Porsche 356, a Triumph TR3, an MGA and an MGB – I wonder how they stacked up against each other IRL?), which I assume were rented or borrowed. There’s a Jeep pick-up. There’s a derelict house in the desert. Not much else. Seems like the major costs in shooting it would have been film stock, processing, actors’ salaries, and food.
According to the IMDB, it was $45,000. Very cheap for a movie, even in 1965.
That’s quite a coincidence. My wife is downstairs watching that movie right now. She recorded it off Turner Classic Movies last night.
For some the cars are distraction enough from the boobs 
And from this thread I find out that Tura Satana is still alive and has an EBay store 
Yep. My wife’s a big fan of those old B movies, especially some of the cult classics from the '60s, and a couple of years ago a friend of hers sent her a copy of this photo that he purchased from Tura Satana’s website. Satana had incribed it “Come join the Pussycats,” and signed it.
Several of the actors were in their first movie, too, so they couldn’t have been very expensive. Like Sue Bernard - the girl wandering around the desert in a bikini[!] - who became a Playmate the next year when she turned legal. I’ll bet they didn’t have a tutor for her on the set.
And given how padded out each scene was, and the number of fake inserts of people sitting in cars pretending to drive, and the bad continuity, I’ll bet that Meyer had to work very hard to get the movie up to feature length. 30 minutes of plot crammed into a 90-minute film!
Little wonder his next film had to be Mondo Topless just to make some money back after this failure.
Huh…very bizarre – I’m listening to Wake Me When It’s Over at this very moment.
Oh, I dunno. I’ve seen worse films. Heck, I’ve been involved in the making of worse films!
The pretend driving was obvious, but I don’t think it was any worse than its use in any other film. It was a staple technique, and to be expected at the time. (Rear screen projections were also a staple, but even if Meyer had the budget I don’t think it would have worked.)
There were continuity errors. I can think of one where the front license plate on the Porsche is hanging off, only it was back in place shortly thereafter. And I thought I saw the reflection of the crew when the Porsche drives through the barbed wire fence. But these things happen even in big budget pictures.
The acting was rather uneven. The women especially weren’t very good.
But all in all, I thought it was a competent low-budget picture. I appreciate the bare-bones aspects of it.
The last time I saw this movie the projectionist misframed it so that the breasts of whoever was appearing in closeup were at the dead center the screen and in the wide shots heads were cut off. There was a cry of disappointment when they fixed it half an hour in.
Do get her to show you Roger Corman’s classic A Bucket Of Blood.
Ah, Russ Meyer, we need another director of his talents desperately.
I was really loving the first part of the film, right up to where the girls meet up with the old man and the Vegetable, but it was on so late I couldn’t stay awake for it. Luckily I taped it and Mudhoney so I can catch the end. I loved how angry everyone was all the time.
Give me the money and I’ll make any film you like.
I owned a 1962 MGA (last year that model was made) and (IMHO) it was superior to the TR-3 and had much more personality than it’s replacement, the MGB. The 356 was in a different league…
When it was on TCM the other night was the first time I’ve seen it all the way through. I’d seen bits here and there before, but I enjoyed it.
Isn’t this more of a DD movie?
Nice quote at the end of Mudhoney:
I might say that one man’s righteousness can become the curse of all.
Now that’s a typically shallow male remark, isn’t it? :rolleyes:
Go, on admit it - make a clean … err … breast of it. :o
As if it weren’t obvious, the band Faster Pussycat took their name from the title of this movie.
