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Flaming Creatures
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Flaming Creatures

1963

Directed by Jack Smith

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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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Director
Jack Smith
Written by
Jack Smith
Produced by
Jack Smith
Cinematographer
Jack Smith
Origin country
United States
Runtime
42m
Language
en
TMDB
4.7/10 (61 votes)
IMDb
4.6/10 (1,703 votes)
Released April 29, 1963·$300 budget

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