The Thousands

If you want to improve your polite dinner party conversation, refine your politically correct social conscience or impress your girlfriend’s parents, there are certain movies you should see. And then there is PINK FLAMINGO. Exploring morbidly obese trailer trash who are fighting turf war-fare for the ‘filthiest people alive’ title. The film’s heroes are challenged for the crown by a couple who sell heroin to school children, kidnap and impregnate female hitch-hikers and sell babies to lesbian couples. This 1972 bad-taste beauty will be followed by the Stanley Kubrich classic that will have you sleeping with the light on. Ah bad taste – what’s not to like? – JB