Pink Flamingos (R 18+) PRESENTED IN 35MM FILM

Pink Flamingos (R 18+, 1972) Presented in 35mm Film by The Revival House Perth

Divine (Divine), a flamboyant criminal living under an assumed identity in a rundown Baltimore trailer, holds the self-proclaimed title of "the filthiest person alive," a distinction she guards fiercely against all challengers. When a jealous rival couple, Connie and Raymond Marble (Mink Stole and David Lochary), attempts to steal her title through a campaign of escalating depravity and outrageous provocation, Divine and her deranged family engage in an increasingly absurd, transgressive war to defend her reputation as the most shocking figure imaginable. As both sides push the boundaries of taste and decency to their absolute extremes, the film builds toward a series of legendarily outrageous set pieces that have cemented its notorious reputation in cinema history.

Director John Waters delivers a gleefully transgressive underground classic that deliberately assaults conventional taste and cinematic decorum at every turn, establishing Waters as the reigning "Pope of Trash" in American independent cinema. Divine's fearless, larger-than-life performance embraces total commitment to the film's outrageous provocations, creating an enduring icon of underground and queer cinema. Shot on a minuscule budget with a devoted troupe of collaborators, the film's deliberately crude aesthetic and gleeful embrace of shock value function as a direct rebellion against mainstream cinematic and social convention. Decades after its release, Pink Flamingos endures as a landmark of midnight movie culture and transgressive underground filmmaking, its notorious reputation for pushing boundaries remaining entirely, defiantly intact.

Original format and audio experience of this film faithfully reproduced by The Revival House. Presented in 35mm film unless noted otherwise.

When: Friday, November 6th at 10:30PM
Where: The Revival House at the Como Theatre
Rating: R 18+ (The content is high in impact)

Waters's gleefully transgressive underground classic remains defiantly shocking - experience the ultimate midnight movie on 35mm film.