视 觉上Flaming Creatures就是Josef von Sternberg加上疯狂的异装癖假面舞会家庭录影。Smith使用了过期黑白胶片，给影片一种缥缈的味道。影片没有情节，配乐用的是一组Maria Montez影片对白蒙太奇，hacienda音乐，和摇滚。他的影片里有搞笑阿拉伯女奴，狂放的西班牙舞者，等等。吸血鬼样的Marilyn Monroe模仿者，当然是男的，从棺材中爬出，出现在空镜头里，手里拿着一捆花，走过一堆尸体。然后开始掀开一尸体的衣服撩拨他的阴茎。就这样，性的复活最终让所有尸体复活，影片如标准的Busby Berkeley音乐剧一样结束了。

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.

Travestis, hermafroditas e vampiros mergulham numa orgia bizarra que se mescla a uma curra com relances de pênis flácidos e seios.

Картина посвящена жизни трансвеститов, гермафродитов, участников транс-шоу, нимфоманок, а также хорошо сложенного насильника. Сексуальная составляющая постоянно присутствует в кадре, сюжет постоянно прерывается изображениями мужских членов и женской груди.

Polémico filme rodado en blanco y negro, tildado de obsceno en su época, cuyo tema principal es la ambigüedad sexual y que reúne a un grupo de andróginos, travestis y drag queens en una orgía. "Flaming Creatures", referencia indiscutible del cine experimental de los años 60, es la única película que nos ha quedado de Jack Smith, autor de varios cortos y considerado precursor del cine de Andy Warhol.