Of course, every battle in their filth war is quite obviously filtered through John Waters’s legendarily up-is-down, wrong-is-right sense of humor.

Twenty-five years after Pink Flamingos was first unleashed, the film has lost none of its danger, its wit, its psychotic exuberance.

One of the most vile, stupid and repulsive films ever made.

The myriad horrors that Pink Flamingos offers are a catalog of atrocities played for triumph.