10 Incredible Follow-Ups To Iconic Movies (That Nobody Saw)

6. Female Trouble

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John Waters' Pink Flamingos is an absolute masterpiece of trash cinema. A potent mix of biting social satire, porno chic and drag queens eating dog excrement, there is truly something for everyone in Waters' wonderfully disgusting epic.

Notorious and financially successful upon release, Pink Flamingos thrust Waters and his muse Divine into the limelight, much to the chagrin of conservative America.

The duo followed up on their barrage of celluloid sleaze with the 1974 comedy Female Trouble, a more restrained but still monstrously funny film that kept the same spirit as its predecessor. Following the exploits of Dawn Davenport, a teenage delinquent who is driven to madness when her parents don't buy her the cha-cha heels she wanted for Christmas.

Dawn's life spirals out of control, culminating in a whole host debauchery and vulgarity that hits that perfect sweet spot between shocking and hilarious. It's nowhere near as disgusting as Pink Flamingos by any stretch, but Waters' knack for the outrageous is still here, as well as the deliberately hyperbolic dialogue he would become known for.

It may be hard for some to stomach, but this is certainly one of Waters' more accessible films.

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