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.
Francis Francine
as Francis Francine
Sheila Bick
as Delicious Dolores
Joel Markman
as Our Lady of the Docks
Mario Montez
as The Spanish Girl
Arnold Rockwood
as Arnold
Judith Malina
as The Fascinating Woman
Marian Zazeela
as Marian Zazeela
Beverly Grant
as Whirling Dervish
Piero Heliczer
as
