Songs from Movies

Flaming Creatures (1963)

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.

The movie Flaming Creatures, released in 1963, features 5 songs from artists like The Everly Brothers and Yashiko Yamiguchi. What is your favorite song from Flaming Creatures?

 

Songs from Flaming Creatures

Be-Bop-A-Lula
The Everly Brothers
Siboney
It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels
China Nights
Yashiko Yamiguchi
Concerto for Solo Violin