Starring: Mink Stole, Liz Renay, Edith Massey, Susan Lowe, Mary Vivian Pearce, Jean Hill.Ī rare Divine-free early Waters outing (he was committed to a play) and he is sorely missed. Image Credit: Charm City Prods/Kobal/Shutterstock ![]() The film ends with the National Guard firing at Lady Divine as Kate Smith sings, “God Bless America.” A “Baltimore Sun” critic declared the film “thoroughly disgusting” but also “quite funny at times.” Divine is ultimately raped by a 15-foot giant lobster named Lobstora. Oh, and a cheating husband is eviscerated and his organs eaten. Shocking incidents stack up and mayhem ensues, including Lady Divine being raped by glue sniffers, an act of anal penetration with a dildo and a rosary employed in a very unholy way. Then she gets bored and decides to murder the audience members instead. At the end, Divine robs them at gunpoint. Instead of charging a fee, performers chase down pedestrians and force them to attend. Lady Divine is the impresario of a traveling freak show called the “Cavalcade of Perversion,” featuring fetish acts and oddities like a puke eater (don’t worry, it’s creamed corn). Starring: Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole, Edith Massey. Image Credit: Courtesy of New Line Cinema “Mondo Trasho,” which cost slightly over $2,000 to make, is little seen since no licensing fees were paid to use the songs on the soundtrack, which include “Jack the Ripper” by Link Wray and the Ray Man, “Short Shorts” by The Royal Teens and “Strangers in the Night” by Frank Sinatra. Waters admits this is his least favorite movie and that it should have been a short. Meanwhile, Divine drives around Baltimore after running over the bombshell while being repeatedly visited by the Virgin Mary. Starring: Divine, Mary Vivian Pearce, David Lochary, Mink Stole, Margie Skidmore.Ī surreal plunge into urban seaminess that is light on dialogue begins with chickens getting their heads chopped off and a blond bombshell (Pearce) being seduced by a hippie foot fetishist. ![]() Image Credit: Courtesty of Film-Makers' Cooperative In honor of this one-of-a-kind auteur, here is a ranking of all of his 12 films ranked from worst to best, including “Pink Flamingos,” “Hairspray,” “Cry-Baby” and “Serial Mom.” One of his more quirky outlets was when he went on a cross-country hitchhiking trip in 2012, and wrote about his encounters in his 2014 book, “Carsick.” Waters also acts, most recently playing one of his idols, gimmicky B-movie king William Castle, on TV’s “Feud.” Waters also tours with his annual Christmas show that began in 1996. He has other creative outlets, such as photo-based art and installations that display a sense of humor. In 2008, he tried to make a Christmas film for children, “Fruitcake,” but the company who backed it went out of business. The last film he helmed was 2004’s “A Dirty Shame,” which earned an NC-17 rating. But without the presence of Divine, Waters lost some of his outsider edge. When Milstead died at age 42 from an enlarged heart in 1988, Waters’ output went more mainstream, with brand-name actors like Johnny Depp and Kathleen Turner starring in his films. ![]() Early on, Waters assembled a stock company of players from suburban Baltimore who he would the Dreamlanders, including Mink Stole and Edith Massey.īut Waters would find his true muse and favorite leading lady in his childhood friend, Glenn Milstead, a drag queen whose alter-ego was known as Divine. The director is a New York University film school dropout who instead became a scholar of transgressive, envelope-shredding cinema, influenced by the directorial likes of Herschell Gordon Lewis, Federico Fellini, William Castle, Douglas Sirk and Ingmar Bergman. At least he has a fabulous sense of humor. ![]() Baltimore native John Waters is filmdom’s pencil-mustached titan of trash who has spent a lifetime of dumpster-diving into a vat of bad taste, sleaze, kinky gross-outs, over-the-top camp, maudlin melodramatics, sick jokes, taboo sexuality, vulgarity and bizarre personalities.
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