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

John Forsythe’s humiliation ritual

Liz

MST3K version: (Watching Ann Margret walk away.) Mike: "He's going to snap that steering wheel in half." Crow: "There's not a shower cold enough for this man." . A Senate candidate finds a seductive reform school dropout hiding in his home in "Kitten with a Whip (1964)."…

CainCrow50

“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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