Its apt that Pink Flamingos opens on a shot of a trailer home because it sets the tone for what were about to watch. Over the next 90 minutes, folks, prepare yourself for drag queen Divine bestowing upon his/her son a gift that only a mother can give (fellatio), a party montage that includes a guest contracting his sphincter in close-up, a kidnapped hitch-hiker being impregnated with a sperm-filled pipette and, of course, Divines devouring of a canines bowel movement, set to How Much is That Doggy in the Window? Tying it all together is Divines determination to retain the tabloid-bestowed title of filthiest person alive in the face of challenges from two jealous perverts who hate Divine more than anything in the world. The Marbles, played by David Lochary and Mink Stole, run a baby ring, selling the offspring of abductees to lesbian couples and ploughing the profits into porn stores and heroin operations that target inner city elementary schools. But they cant compete with a cross-dressing trailer resident who keeps his/her mentally ill mother in a playpen, allows her delinquent son to rape a woman sent to spy on them and is willing to break into their home and perform indescribable acts on their furniture. And thats before Divine resolves to move to Boise, Idaho, sleep in gas station lavatories and start dressing like a dyke.
Ian Watson is the author of 'Midnight Movie Madness', a 600+ page guide to "bad" movies from 'Reefer Madness' to 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.'
