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Flaming Creatures

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Filmmaker and artist Jack Smith described his own film as a “comedy set in a haunted movie studio.” Flaming Creatures begins humorously enough with several men and women, mostly of indeterminate gender, vamping it up in front of the camera and participating in a mock advertisement for an indelible, heart-shaped brand of lipstick. However, things take a dark, nightmarish turn when a transvestite chases, catches and begins molesting a woman. Soon, all of the titular “creatures” participate in a (mostly clothed) orgy that causes a massive earthquake. After the creatures are killed in the resulting chaos, a vampire dressed like an old Hollywood starlet rises from her coffin to resurrect the dead. All ends happily enough when the now undead creatures dance with each other, even though another orgy and earthquake loom over the end title card.

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Status
Released
Budget
$300
Box office
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Language
English
  • experimental

Top billed cast

Behind the camera

Director

Jack Smith

Writers

Jack Smith

Produced in

United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereBleecker St. Cinema29 Apr 1963

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Flaming Creatures was released on 29 April 1963.

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