Clockwise from here: Lady in red: Divine; Trailer trash, literally; Danny Mills with the film’s star; Dishing out some Divine retribution; The movie is now considered “culturally significant”.
MADE FOR JUST $10,000 in 1972, John Waters’ cult classic Pink Flamingos sees the diva Divine battle a sociopathic couple (Mink Stole, David Lochary) for the title of filthiest person alive, a provocative premise throwing up incest, cannibalism, castration, simulated chicken sex, a singing anus, cop-killing, artificial insemination and dismemberment, all ending on cinema’s most famous dog-poo-eating scene. “It was something that you look back on making and think, ‘How did we ever get through it?’” begins Waters. “We would shoot all day and the film would come out black. How did we ever make that movie? I didn’t have a clue.”