Flaming Creatures

Apr 29, 1963

0h 42m

★ 4.6

Overview

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.

Genres

Comedy

Horror

Fantasy

Flaming Creatures Trailers

Cast

Francis Francine

Delicious Dolores

Sheila Bick

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Joel Markman

The Spanish Girl

Mario Montez

Arnold

Arnold Rockwood

The Fascinating Woman

Judith Malina

Marian Zazeela

Whirling Dervish

Beverly Grant

Piero Heliczer

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