Pink Flamingos
June 26, 2025
Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against Connie & Raymond Marble, a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as “The Filthiest Person Alive”.
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Thursday, June 26, 2025
John Waters' Pink Flamingos isn't just shocking—it's a manifesto written in bad taste. Divine, the film's magnificent monster, plays herself: the "filthiest person alive," living in a trailer with her mentally ill mother (who sits in a playpen and eats eggs) and her son (who has a thing for chickens). When a sleazy couple challenges her title, Divine embarks on a rampage of increasingly deranged acts that culminate in what might be cinema's most infamous ending.
Shot on a budget that wouldn't cover craft services today, Pink Flamingos looks like it was processed in a toilet and mixed in a blender—and that's exactly right. Waters weaponizes his lack of resources, creating something so genuinely transgressive it makes most "edgy" modern films look like Disney productions. Waters packs his movie with every filthy act imaginable—from impromptu castrations to chicken-crushing sex scenes—but somehow turns this trash parade into a twisted party anthem.
Fair warning: Once you've seen Divine *** *** ****, there's no going back. But for those brave enough to dive into Waters' cesspool, you'll find the most joyfully deranged celebration of bad taste ever committed to celluloid.
- Director: John Waters
- Principal Cast: Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole, Edith Massey, Danny Mills, Channing Wilroy, Cookie Mueller, Paul Swift, Susan Walsh, Linda Olgeirson
- Country: USA
- Year: 1972
- Running Time: 93 min.
- Producer: John Waters
- Screenplay: John Waters
- Cinematographers: John Waters
- Filmography: Multiple Maniacs (1970), Hairspray (1988), Desperate Living (1977), Polyester (1981), Cry-Baby (1990), Serial Mom (1994), Pecker (1998), Cecil B. Demented (2000)
- Language: English