Watch Pink Flamingos Videos

Release Date: 1972

Cast: Mary Vivian Pearce, Edith Massey, Linda Olgeirson, Pat Lefaiver, Divine, John Waters, Cookie Mueller, Channing Wilroy, Susan Walsh, Paul Swift, Mink Stole, Jack Walsh ...MORE

Cast: Mary Vivian Pearce, Edith Massey, Linda Olgeirson, Pat Lefaiver, Divine, John Waters, Cookie Mueller, Channing Wilroy, Susan Walsh, Paul Swift, Mink Stole, Jack Walsh, Bob Skidmore, Danny Mills, Pat Moran, David Lochary ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Gay Interest, Comedy, Gay Themed, Gross Out, Black Comedy, Drama Film, Gay, Cult, Crime, Gross-Out Film, Horror

Pink Flamingos is a 1972 transgressive black comedy film written, produced, composed, shot, edited, and directed by John Waters. When the film was initially released, it caused a huge degree of controversy and thus became one of the most notorious cult films ever made. It made an underground star of the flamboyant drag queen, Divine. The film co-stars David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole, Danny Mills, Cookie Mueller, and Edith Massey. Produced on a budget of only $10,000, it was mostly shot on weekends in Phoenix, a suburb of Baltimore, Maryland. After screenings at universities... MORE

Pink Flamingos is a 1972 transgressive black comedy film written, produced, composed, shot, edited, and directed by John Waters. When the film was initially released, it caused a huge degree of controversy and thus became one of the most notorious cult films ever made. It made an underground star of the flamboyant drag queen, Divine. The film co-stars David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole, Danny Mills, Cookie Mueller, and Edith Massey. Produced on a budget of only $10,000, it was mostly shot on weekends in Phoenix, a suburb of Baltimore, Maryland. After screenings at universities across the U.S. including Harvard College in 1973, the film was distributed theatrically by Saliva Films, and later by New Line Cinema and became a nationally known film. Since its release it has had a rather devoted cult following and is one of Waters' most famous or downright notorious films due to some shocking scenes and the wide range of perverse, taboo acts performed in the film. In 1997, for the 25th anniversary of the 1972 premiere, the film was re-released. The new version featured an improved stereo soundtrack (which, unlike the original, was made available to the general public, on LESS