When watching "Pink Flamingos" you can't escape one of the final scenes with protagonist Babs Johnson, played by queer icon Divine. "Kill everyone now," says Babs from behind a smoking gun after ...

Cult director John Waters has produced some of the most shocking and outrageous scenes in film history that have delighted fans for over 60 years of pure filth. He began his career with low-budget ...

When "Pink Flamingos" premiered in theaters in 1972, audiences reacted to the film similarly to how they did when "The Exorcist" debuted the following year. They ...

Editor’s note: This segment was rebroadcast on Jan. 1, 2026. Click here for that audio. Subversive Baltimore filmmaker John Waters has been offending sensibilities since the release of his 1972 film ...

The good news for iconic filmmaker John Waters: He's free to visit Hicksville without fear of going to prison. Not that the 76-year-old elder statesman of cult cinema had taken that threat seriously, ...