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Flaming Creatures (1963)
In gay film-maker Jack Smith's experimental, controversial,
ultra-low-budget, black and white 43-minute movie that was declared
obscene, sexually-graphic and depraved, and seized by police at its
underground premiere in NYC in the spring of 1963, and banned in
22 states and in four countries - it was reported to be an exotic,
Arabian tribute to 1940s screen star Maria Montez:
- the primitive, herky-jerky, over-exposed, ragged
and legendary underground film (shot on half-ruined or damaged
film stock), made on a Greenwich Village rooftop in the city, and
often regarded as the beginning of 'camp'
- the many disjointed and odd-angled images of heavily-made-up
lips, eyes, overlapping limbs, and genitals of bisexuals, transvestites,
hermaphrodites and other drag queens (some in white fabric dresses),
possibly in an Arabian harem - either dancing, grooming (primping),
or romancing
- a mock lipstick commercial (Someone asks: "Is
there a lipstick that doesn't come off when you suck cocks?...But
how does a man get lipstick off his cock?"), with a close-up
of a flaccid penis being shaken and then seen next to the face of
a man with a large false nose while he applied lipstick
- the simulated cruel rape of a screaming woman during
an earthquake, and a repetitive view of her enlarged close-up of
her large, round, singly-exposed, massaged breast that was constantly
being jiggled; then, her dress was raised and she was ravaged and
forced to endure cunnilingus
- the main sequence - a drug-fueled orgy of intertwined
bodies, kissing and organ caressing and stimulation, with nude and
semi-nude males and females - with a soundtrack of vintage music
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Posing During Drug-Fueled Orgy
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Drag Queen Sucking Blood From Neck of Unconscious
Victim
Then Playing With Himself
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- the sight of a vampirish, blonde-wigged, high-heeled
drag queen rising from a coffin, to suck blood from the neck of
another unconscious drag queen - and then, the vampire laid back
and wiggled his penis (masturbation?)
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Man With False Nose Applying Lipstick
Rape of Screaming Ravaged Woman
Organ Touching
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