For those of you not familiar with the movie, Pink Flamingos was released in 1972. It starred drag-queen Divine as Babs Johnson, "the filthiest person alive." In one scene, she actually eats a dog turd off of a sidewalk.

 

How do you top (or bottom) that? You recast everyone with children playing the lead roles. The young actors were invited to a table read, where they got to wear colorful wigs, and the whole thing was filmed. Needless to say, the script was massaged to be more age-appropriate.

 

"I’ve always said that if you took out the sex and the violence, that it is a children’s story because it’s the battle of the gross-out, and that’s what most kids’ books are now," Waters told the New York Times. He added that he hoped Kiddie Flamingos would be "even more perverse than the original, because it’s transforming innocence into a whole new kind of joyous, G-rated obscenity."

 

If you are in New York, you can check it out at the Marianne Boesky Gallery in Chelsea from January 9 to February 14.