I am Benjamin Crabtree, and I am a Feature Writer for Collider. I am also the creator of CrabtreeCinema.com and cohost of the upcoming Celluloid Noise Podcast. Beyond writing and talking about cinema, ...

As noted in the liner notes of the Criterion Collection’s release of John Waters’s Pink Flamingos, Divine’s signature look in the film came about primarily as a means of scaring hippies. Appearing ...

When watching "Pink Flamingos" you can't escape one of the final scenes with protagonist Babs Johnson, played by queer icon Divine. "Kill everyone now," says Babs from behind a smoking gun after ...

It’s one thing to release a film and get negative critiques, but what happened when John Waters released Pink Flamingos in 1972 was a very different story. The reviews weren’t just poor – they were ...

Ursula, the treacherous sea witch who steals Ariel's voice in the 1989 animated classic The Little Mermaid and the new live-action reboot, is not a drag queen. At least according to official Disney ...

While you can also buy dolls based off hit shows like Stranger Things or Scream Queens, the newest set is, quite literally, “Utterly Divine.” The shrine would cost between $50,000-$100,000, and ...

Filmmaker John Waters, the proud “Pope of Trash,” is no stranger to weird questions. But at a recent audience Q&A when someone asked him, “How did you avoid getting cancer?” he was flummoxed. “I ...

Given the landfill of perversions that Pink Flamingos offers, the most shocking aspect of the five decades it has spent lurking in the subconscious and rhetorical basements of the United States is ...

Renegade filmmaker and noted aficionado of expressive bad taste John Waters exploded into international infamy with this darkly comic, no-budget parade of the perverse (his third feature film, and ...