Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! ( Russ Meyer, 1965, US)

Three curvey and violent drag-racing female protagonists seek new challenges in life so they turn to murder and kidnapping. After killing a drag-racer and taking his girlfriend hostage, they retreat to the desert where they stumble upon a rundown farm. Thera a farmer and retarded son “vegetable” live and the trio sease the house for their hideout, keeping everyone hostage while they search for the farmers life-savings they believe he keeps somewhere on premises.

Meyer, a innivative action director and Americas best-known tit man, made sexploitation movies in the 60´s and said that naked girls just might be….well….fun. The film is nasty and brutish and though it conveys erotic atmosphere it shows less flesh than his earlies works. The film is also almost a decade ahead of movies like Deliverance, The Hills Have Eyes and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre with its use of the wierdo desert family motiv.

Though the film is a exploitational device of the grindhouse tradition, in later years the troublesome sexual politics of the movie have been reconsidered and the lightly dressed trio have a certain uncompromising girl power attitued that preceeds Tarantinos heroins.