Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

Although this article doesn’t explicitly contain any significant spoilers, it is always advisable to watch a film before reading about it too deeply. In his own words, the intended audience for Russ Meyer’s films was “some guy…in the theatre with semen seeping out of his dick.” His work in the sexploitation subgenre is credited with …

Since the earliest days of American cinema there has been a shadowy counterpart to the commercial mainstream:  exploitation movies — pictures whose appeal lies in their sensational treatment and leering promotion of often lurid and prurient material.  Pre-1960, when mainstream Hollywood worked within severe restrictions on content, exploitation movies offered audiences titillating glimpses of the …