CREEMEDIA
At some time in the mid-70s (depending on where you lived) there appeared on the midnight movie circuit what was possibly the strangest, and certainly the most grotesque, low-budget comedy gross/freak-out film yet. Poised somewhere between the summer of love and the Sex Pistols, Pink Flamingos was both an inheritor of the new freedom of the ’60s and a foreshadowing of the nihilism which was soon to become codified as a pop culture subdivision.
CREEMEDIA
JUST PLAIN FOLKS
Mondo Trasho Multiple Maniacs Desperate Living (Cinema Group Home Video)
Richard C.
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At some time in the mid-70s (depending on where you lived) there appeared on the midnight movie circuit what was possibly the strangest, and certainly the most grotesque, low-budget comedy gross/freak-out film yet. Poised somewhere between the summer of love and the Sex Pistols, Pink Flamingos was both an inheritor of the new freedom of the ’60s and a foreshadowing of the nihilism which was soon to become codified as a pop culture subdivision. The film depicted the efforts of several degenerate underclass weirdos to determine who among them was deserving of the title “the filthiest person alive.” It climaxed with the heroine, Divine, an obese transvestite in a sort of punk/clown outfit, eating (on camera) a poodle turd.