The Movie: Pink Flamingos (1972)
What Is It?: John
Waters gave the still-new Midnight Movie phenomenon a high-colonic by shooting
it full of competitive murder, coprophagia, incest, infantilization, hardcore
fellatio, castration, forced pregnancies, black-market baby dealing, chicken
fucking, shrimping, and poop mailing. Somehow, Waters and Divine make it all
amusing, weirdly charming fun even as Pink
Flamingos hasn’t lost its ability to shock in 40-plus years. Personally,
the only thing I find tough to watch is the singing anus.
Why Today?: On
this day In 1781, William Herschel
discovers Uranus.
