Divine (Divine) has been dubbed the "filthiest person alive", but she hates the media attention that comes with it and thus goes into hiding in a trailer park with her senile mother (Edith Massey), her son Crackers (Danny Mills), and her companion Cotton (Mary Vivian Pearce). Thing is, there's this couple, Connie (Mink Stole) and Raymond (David Lochary), who also want to be the filthiest persons alive, and to that end they run an operation where they keep girls in their basement, have them raped, and then sell the resulting babies on the black market. But Divine's not beaten just like that, so they use every trick in the book to out-filth her - including hiring a woman, Cookie (Cookie Mueller) to date Crackers to get some dirt on Divine. But Divine eventually gets wise to their tricks, and she and Crackers eventually break into Connie and Raymond's home to lick (!) all their furniture so it later rejects Connie and Raymond. But Connie and Raymond are not that easily to be beaten, so everything is apparently headed for disaster.

And yes, this is the movie in which Divine eats fresh dog poo - for real.

Now it can't be claimed that Pink Flamingos is the most refined of movies, not by a longshot. Also, Pink Flamingos wasn't exactly made in good taste, which becomes clear long before the dog feces finale. But if Pink Flamingos is one thing, it's terrific fun - for all the wrong reasons maybe, as its gross parody of middle-class living is anything but subtle and features many a rather nasty and even disgusting scene. At the same time though it's also a very primal expression of fun that's not limited by the borders of good taste or political correctness but infects the audience with the good times the makers of the film must have had when dreaming this one up and shooting it. But of course, one better leaves one's perceptions of "good taste" at home to properly enjoy it!

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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