Wednesday, 28 July 2004 (19.30)
Special Film Screening: CULT MOVIES

FASTER PUSSY CAT, KILL! KILL!
[DVD / USA / 1965 / BW / 83’]
Director: Russ Meyer [USA]

FASTER PUSSYCAT, KILL! KILL! is the story of a new breed of SUPERWOMEN emerging out of the ruthlessness of our times. We are introduced to three BUXOM Go-Go girls: VARLA, ROSIE, and BILLIE, wildly dancing the Watusi before the leers, jeers and lecherous come-ons of their drooling all-male audience. The violence, implicit in the girls' tease, is quickly moved out of the microcosmic bar into the outside world as they literally let go of themselves, embarking on a wild, violent, deadly journey of vengeance on all men.
VARLA, the outrageously abundant KARATE MASTER leader of the pack, breaks the arms and back of one man, runs her Porsche over two others, grinds a fourth, a muscleman, against a wall and, eventually, deliberately goes down the path of her own self-destruction, dragging her two BUXOTIC cohorts along with her.

THE DEVIL CAME FROM AKASAVA
[DVD / Germany / 1970 / 84’]
Director: Jess Franco [Spain]

Brace yourself for an exotic trip into terror amd adventure with this groovy slice of 70s drive-in delights from cult director Jess Franco (Venus in Furs, Vampyros Lesbos, She Killed in Ecstasy). Something’s amiss in the forbidding land of Akasava, where Scotland Yard sends strapping Rex Forrester(Fred Williams) to investigate a renowned professor’s disappearance while searching for a miraculous but lethal stone. Along with the luscious Janc Morgan(Eva Stromberg). They uncovers a perilous den of murder, deceit, lust and magic that could claim his life!
A slinky and stylish Eurocult gem. THE DEVIL FROM AKASAVA sports a catchy and oh-so-funky music score, cast of outrageous characters and enough macabre, cliffhanging adventures to satisfy the hungriest fans of wild and weird cinema.

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