Divine,
David Lochary,
Mink Stole,
Mary Vivian Pearce,
Edith Massey
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Renegade filmmaker and noted aficionado of expressive bad taste John Waters exploded into international infamy with this darkly comic, no-budget parade of the perverse (his third feature film, and fir... read more
Directed by: John Waters
Release Date: March 17, 1972
DVD Release Date: June 14, 2005
Stats: 1,892 reviews
A disgusting, surrealist, scary, sick, breathtaking, infamous and terrible funny. An anarchist /subversive cinema work. An unique film, that you need to have courage to see and after say the story. John Waters is really a genius of the expressive bad taste. Pink Flamingos is a pe... read more
Sometimes John Waters is a little too obvious for his own good and this is one of those cases. I typically either love or hate his stuff. I like what he was trying to say with this, but it's just too much. I mean you can be trashy, but at least attempt to do it with some sense of... read more
I would give this a better rating, but i felt the climax was lame. Divine just shoots them and that's it? Really?
So I'm watching all the John Waters' films but this one was a bit much for me. It's hard to believe that it came out in the 70s because it is still shocking and over the top. I can't imagine going to see the this movie in the theater.
On one hand, this movie is totally disgusting and hard to watch, but on the other hand that is exactly what John Waters was trying to do with this movie. This is probably the weirdest movie you'll ever see, but when you think about it, it's also brilliant and accomplishes its go... read more
Taking on and demolishing just about every known middle-class value. No shit! I actually like the story and realise it?s a bit of fun, I really like John Walters and Divine, I also realise the value of this film, the risks it took and the boundaries it was confronting and the soc... read more
I've heard it said that this film is an attack on middle-class sensibilities. That's wrong. It's a full-frontal blitzkrieg assault.
I know that Waters is trying to be outrageous and shocking and obscene, but I draw the line when it comes to brutally beating animals to death. ... read more
3 stars just for being so disgusting, but for the same reason I can't give it anymore either. Recommending it to anyone would alone send me to hell.
The shock value of this movie isn't there as much for me as film-goers of this film's time, because, well, I'm a product of the internet generation and a singing asshole is something I would casually download nowadays. That said, this is still a sick movie in many ways, as is int... read more
Pink Flamingos" is a cult classic.The plot of this film revolves around the throwdown challenge to Divine's supremacy as the filthiest person alive."Pink Flamingos" contains some memorably repulsive scenes like a sex scene with a chicken and the scene where Divine eats fresh dog ... read more
Waters works best with some restrictions on his license. He's much better as a subversive than he is an anarchist.
I am not giving a star rating to Pink Flamingos, because stars simply seem not to apply. It should be considered not as a film but as a fact, or perhaps as an object. Full Review
This bad-taste comedy put John Waters on the map as the propeht of low budget, trashy but signficant indie films Full Review
What was considered shocking in the 1970s seems benign today. Full Review
gag-inducing and breathtaking at the same time.
People complain about shock cinema and how far it has to go now to penetrate our jaded, desensitized sensibilities. Come meet the grandfather of it all! Full Review
[A] demented comedy that defecates on everything the '60s stood for, and then allows the drag queen in the lead to eat in, right on camera. Full Review
Still succeeds as an all-out assault on good taste. Full Review
Infamously sick and certainly worth seeing ... but don't expect much.
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