PINK FLAMINGOS (1972) ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢
D: John Waters
Divine, Mink Stole, David Lochary, Danny Mills,
Mary Vivian Pearce, Edith Massey, Cookie Mueller
John Waters' famously transgressive comedy about a contest to determine who's the filthiest person in the world. (Not to give anything away, but one of the contestants is Divine.) Even Waters calls it "one of the most hideous movies ever made," and it's basically a catalogue of every depraved thing he could think of that hadn't turned up on the screen before. It's disgusting, and that's the point. (It's also pretty damn funny.) Added to the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 2021, to the everlasting amusement of John Waters.
