X
- 1972
- X
- Fine Line Features
- 1 h 33 m
- 1972
- X
- Fine Line Features
- 1 h 33 m
Summary Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person Alive".
Directed By: John Waters
Written By: John Waters
- 1972
- X
- Fine Line Features
- 1 h 33 m
- 1972
- X
- Fine Line Features
- 1 h 33 m
Pink Flamingos
47
3.7
Summary Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person Alive".
Directed By: John Waters
Written By: John Waters
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
47
60% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
10% Mixed
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1 Review
30% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
47
60% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
10% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
30% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
In Pink Flamingos, Waters did something subversive and, in its gross way, quite spectacular: He created his own hell-bent, sick-joke Oz, with Divine as its wicked-witch queen.
John Waters was way ahead of his time with this corruscating '70s vision of small-town Americana.
User Score
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 14 User Ratings
3.7
36% Positive
5 Ratings
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64% Negative
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
User Score
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 14 User Ratings
3.7
36% Positive
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
0% Mixed
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64% Negative
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
The improbable star of this ultra-low budget cinematic gross-out is 300-pound transvestite Divine, whose willingness to do virtually anything in front of the camera, along with an undeniable screen presence, made Pink Flamingos a favorite on the campus and midnight-movie circuits.
Almost anyone could dig up and film someone with the ability to lip-synch using his a**hole, but it takes genius to set the scene to Surfin' Bird.
One thing you can say for Pink Flamingos, it has a frat party chumminess, even at its most repulsive. In the late '60s and through the '70s, Waters used the same gang of pals for his ensemble, and that created a kind of "let's get down and dirty together" camaraderie.
John Waters' Pink Flamingos has been restored for its 25th anniversary revival, and with any luck at all that means I won't have to see it again for another 25 years. If I haven't retired by then, I will.
Around the above premise spins the nitwit plot of the poorly lensed 16mm picture Pink Flamingos – one of the most vile, stupid and repulsive films ever made.
