Multiple Maniacs
Overview
In this cult classic par excellence, Waters' first "talkie," Divine and her boyfriend run a traveling freak show called "The Cavalcade of Perversion" - and that it is. Infamous for its scene with the violent and unpredictable "Lobstora."
Awards:
Main Cast & Crew:
John Waters - Director
Divine
David Lochary
Mary Vivian Pearce
Mink Stole
Cookie Mueller
Edith Massey
Susan Lowe
Rick Morrow
Paul Swift
Details
- Format: Blu-ray
- Color Format: B&W
- UPC: 715515194815
- Genre: COMEDIES
- Rating: Not Rated
- Release Date: March 2017
Movie Reviews
Synopsis:
An early effort by cult filmmaker John Waters. This black comedy follows the members of a freak show as they travel around the country robbing and murdering their audiences. The movie represents your only chance to see everybody's favorite transvestite -- Divine -- being raped by a 15-foot lobster.
Reviews:
"Transgression is at the heart of Waters’ ethos; his earliest films, in particular, derive much of their power from the feeling that you’re seeing something you’re not supposed to..." -- Grade: B - 08/03/2016 A.V. Club
"Some of the film’s funniest moments occur when customers, fresh from Middle America, gawk at the sights, clucking their disapproval like annoyed hens." - 08/04/2016 New York Times
"[Waters] tips his hat to Tod Browning's FREAKS and to the Manson Family, while simultaneously exploring the blasphemous outer limits of his Catholicism." - 08/01/2016 Hollywood Reporter
"This restored 1970 film is rough around the edges even by Waters’ own lo-fi standards, but it’s still gleefully subversive, outrageously trashy and, possibly, shocking." - 02/16/2017 The Guardian
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