Kitten With a Whip (1964)

As Keanu learned in Knock Knock, there’s no free pizza in life. Even during the sixties.  Ann Margaret is absolutely on fire in Kitten with a Whip, delivering a truly mesmerizing performance while she tortures and blackmails a strait-laced politician with her sexuality…

Dave Edwards

a mesmerizing ann-margaret hilariously terrorizing and blackmailing a WASP in his home for nearly 80 minutes straight. plays initially as a comedic home invasion complicated by layers of manipulation and implied pain before the transition to full-blown exploitation noir…

Josh Lewis

How is it possible for something to feel both so hopelessly trapped in the past AND so ahead of the curve at the same time?? I love how this totally queers the woman-in-trouble narrative by tossing a wannabe establishment WASP at the feet of a towering Ann-Margaret and her…

Liz

Ann-Margret cornering a sweaty dad and making him tremble with real fear gives me LIFE. I love the white hot intensity Margret brings to this movie! She spits lines with a breathless frustrated growl threatening to explode into a scream. I could watch her blackmail…

Patrick Pryor

Kitten with a Whip seems to come about a decade late, with its JD-turned-up-to-eleven plot, and the unrelenting nature of its characters' attack on suburban stability and normalcy. There's a bit of Max Cady to Jody (Ann-Margret) and her friends ("friends"), and the way…

sakana1

60’s Youth Gone Wild exploitation flick This was my first time watching the film with the MST3K commentary.  The first half was some of their best work.  The back half much less so.  Some of my favorite zingers: “Smells like Elvis in there” “This is gonna be much better…

UncleChoppa_

John Forsythe’s humiliation ritual

Liz

“What you’ve got, that’s what I want. Serenity, security, & all that jazz. And someday, I’ll have it.” I was sold the minute that I realized this was a femme fatale film starring the one and only Ann-Margret. It wasn’t the most stellar movie I’ll say but it had some bite…

michele ❥

Jody, a 17 year-old played by Ann-Margret, is not like other teenage girls. She has escaped from a juvenile delinquent hall by stabbing a matron and attempting to burn the facility to the ground. After she flees into the night, she evades the police by breaking into a…

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