12 Trashiest Films Ever Made

1. Pink Flamingos (1972)

Pink Flamingos Divine
New Line Cinema

It€™s apt that Pink Flamingos opens on a shot of a trailer home because it sets the tone for what we€™re about to watch. Over the next 90 minutes, folks, prepare yourself for drag queen Divine bestowing upon his/her son €œa 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, Divine€™s devouring of a canine€™s bowel movement, set to How Much is That Doggy in the Window?

Tying it all together is Divine€™s determination to retain the tabloid-bestowed title of €œfilthiest person alive€ in the face of challenges from €œtwo jealous perverts who hate Divine more than anything in the world.€ The Marbles, played by David Lochary and Mink Stole, run a €œbaby 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 can€™t 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 that€™s before Divine resolves to move to Boise, Idaho, sleep in gas station lavatories and start €œdressing like a dyke.€

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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.'