Pink Flamingos (1972)

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There are films that try to be goriest, the most sadistic, and there are films that try to be the scariest. Now, what about films that try to be the filthiest? What happens when a director comes along who decides that they're going to cross every single line that a filmmaker, outside of snuff and pornography, has ever crossed? Well, when the budget is next to nothing, a director like John Waters emerges to give us a film that is absolutely the vilest, most hilarious, and hilariously vile piece of cinematic trash to ever be captured on camera! Prior to throwing Pink Flamingos into my DVD player, I thought that I had fully prepared
myself for this notoriously filthy piece of cult history, but I soon lost all my initial ethical reasoning only a half hour after the opening credits. As a result, this classic John Waters film is filth at its finest.

Say hello to Divine! She might look like your typical trailer trash: make-up enthused, overweight, foul mouth individual, but really, she is much much more. She is deemed as the filthiest person alive, and Divine has no problem, of what so ever, at living up to this title on a regular day to day basis. Now, Divine is also a woman that belongs to a very loving family. It just so happens that her family is just as filthy. They are all cannibals, incestuous, and murderous. Divines son performs random acts of bestiality, her mother sits in a cradle all day eating eggs (yes, eggs), and her daughter likes nothing more than to see her own brother perform various sex acts (including the animal loving) on various other women, or if you will, victims. The important thing that Water's wants you to realize is that the members of Divines family don't go out of their ways to be this incredibly filthy. They are simply filthy by nature.

Now, somewhere, in a town nearby, lies a middle aged couple that decides that they are in fact the filthiest people alive. They are also successful entrepreneurs, however; ...

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