Pink Flamingos and Other Filth: Three Screenplays

Here are three of the filthiest—and yet, in their own way, sweetest—screenplays ever written: Pink Flamingos, Desperate Living, and Flamingos Forever. Intermixed with the scripts are dozens of classic stills from the films.

In Pink Flamingos, Waters’s muse and leading lady, Divine, a 300-pound cross-dresser who will turn your stomach in one scene and break your heart in the next, competes with her family for the title of “filthiest people alive.” Desperate Living is a perverse fairy tale featuring gun-toting lesbians, leather-clad castle guards, and a fascist queen who has her own daughter gang-raped. Flamingos Forever is the unproduced sequel to Pink Flamingos; it was never filmed, and it never will be—this is the only chance to experience it.