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Desperate living (E)

United States, 1977
film

Only John Water’s could conjure up a fairytale which featured amongst other things, cannibalism, rabies, castration and general debauchery. Peggy Gravel..

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Consumatic

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1957 Pig Carcase Competition

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!OINK

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The Making of Longbird

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