Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965),
11:00pm PACIFICThree go-go watusi dancers set out in a racing sports car for a few days of adventure, violence, and seduction. Leading the pack is Varla, a karate expert whose lesbian lover, Rosie, is little more than an obedient slave. The third woman, Billie, is somewhat reluctant to join in the escapade and is the only one possessing any redeeming qualities. Following a water fight in a nearby lake, the women challenge a young couple, Tommy and Linda, to a "chicken race." Varla wins by resorting to unfair tactics, and when Tommy objects she breaks his back with a karate chop. Horrified, Linda faints from shock. Leaving Tommy's body behind, the women take Linda hostage and drive to a country gas station run by an old man confined to a wheelchair and his muscle-bound, dim-witted son, simply called Vegetable. Upon learning that the old man has a cache of money hidden somewhere, the women decide to find a means of getting their hands on it. While Varla and Rosie continue their snooping--and lovemaking--Billie sets out to seduce Vegetable and is aided by the voyeuristic old man, who encourages his son to rape the girl. Events come to a climax with the arrival of Kirk, the old man's other son, who hangs around for the sake of his brother's welfare. When Varla attempts to seduce him as a means of learning where the money is hidden, the jealous Rosie gets drunk and passes out. Seeking to escape from her evil companions, Billie tries to run away, but she is caught and knifed in the back by Varla. When Rosie returns to the scene of the murder to retrieve the knife, Vegetable assumes that she is responsible for Billie's death and kills her. Desperate, the old man heads back to the house in his wheelchair for his shotgun. But Varla smashes him down with her sports car and finds the cache of money, which had been hidden in the wheelchair. She then tries to kill Vegetable, but his brute strength is sufficient to hold back her surging sports car. Kirk and Linda arrive, and a death struggle ensues during which Kirk is forced to fight Varla as though combating a man. Sensing that he is losing, Linda jumps into a truck and drives it at full force into Varla.
Cast: Tura Satana, Haji, Lori Williams. Dir: Russ Meyer. BW-83 mins, TV-14
Mudhoney (1965),
12:30am PACIFICAt the end of the Great Depression, Calif McKinney, having completed a 5-year prison term for manslaughter, settles down in a small Missouri farming community. Calif soon becomes intimately involved with Hannah, the niece of his employer, Lute Wade. Hannah's husband, sadistic Sidney Brenshaw, continually attempts to goad Calif into violence, but Calif refuses to become involved and turns for comfort to local prostitutes Clara Belle and Eula. Using Brother Hanson, the town preacher, as his spokesman, Sidney attempts to provoke the townspeople into lynching Hannah, Calif, and Lute Wade. Sidney's plan goes awry, however, and, enraged, he burns his farm, attempts to frame Calif, and rapes and murders the preacher's wife. Sidney falls victim to the lynch mob, and Calif, while trying to rescue him, accidentally kills the preacher.
Cast: Hal Hopper, Antoinette Christiani, John Furlong. Dir: Russ Meyer. BW-92 mins, TV-MA
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