CREEMEDIA

At some time in the mid-70s (depending on where you lived) there appeared on the midnight movie circuit what was possibly the strangest, and certainly the most grotesque, low-budget comedy gross/freak-out film yet. Poised somewhere between the summer of love and the Sex Pistols, Pink Flamingos was both an inheritor of the new freedom of the ’60s and a foreshadowing of the nihilism which was soon to become codified as a pop culture subdivision.