“Multiple Maniacs” was shot in 16mm black-and-white for $5,000. Lady Divine finds out about his philandering and sets off to fix his wagon, but as she walks through town to locate him she is assaulted and raped by two weirdos on the street.After regaining her senses, she has a religious epiphany when the Infant of Prague arrives and leads her to a church. If you’re hankering for a heavy dose of sleaze, you need look no further than John Waters’ 1970 sophomore feature, Multiple Maniacs, which joined our collection this week and is now streaming on the Criterion Channel. Earlier this week, we shared our interview with John Pierson, creator and host of the TV series Split Screen, which chronicled the emergence of a vibrant American independent film movement at the turn of the century. Meanwhile, Waters fans have transferred the out-of-print home video to DVD and have taken to selling it for their own profit. David is under Lady Divine’s power because she’s tricked him into thinking he was responsible for the Manson murders (“He did something to the most beautiful girl in Hollywood!”).
But that musical moment is one of the reasons why “Multiple Maniacs” is stuck in bootleg land.
The deranged and humiliated Lady Divine runs amok in the streets and the National Guard is called in to put her out of her misery.“Multiple Maniacs” was shot in 16mm black-and-white for $5,000. The ringmaster here is Mr. David, the boyfriend of Lady Divine. Her new-found lesbianism fuels her to greater acts of violence – killing cops, Mr. David, even her not-so-innocent daughter Cookie (although, in fairness, that was an accident). Lady Divine becomes enraged when her boyfriend cheats on her, and descends into a … While John Waters addicts may feel that “Pink Flamingos” or “Female Trouble” were his personal bests (even Waters called this film his “atrocity”), I would state “Multiple Maniacs” represents a milestone in both Waters’ canon and in the realm of underground cinema.If you never saw “Multiple Maniacs,” you don’t know what you are missing. A neurotic society woman murders her husband with the help of her maid and, on the lam, escape to Mortville, a homeless community ruled over by a fascist queen. In fact, the 95-minute comedy has an incredible soundtrack pieced together a few seconds at a time from records in John Waters' personal music collection.
Opens Friday, August 14thRussia, 1983 – Cold War tensions at their peak. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Starring members of Waters’ beloved regular cast, the Dreamlanders (including David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole, Susan Lowe, Edith Massey, George Figgs, and Cookie Mueller), A “celluloid atrocity” overflowing with deviant shenanigans, John Waters’s low-budget satire makes mincemeat of the peace-and-love era.Members of the Criterion tech team headed to India last month to teach some practical skills in moving-image conservation at the Film Preservation & Restoration Workshop.Get info about new releases, essays and interviews on the Current, Top 10 lists, and sales. John Waters’s gloriously grotesque, previously unreleased and extremely hard to see second feature comes to theaters at long last, replete with all manner of depravity, from robbery to murder to one of cinema’s most memorably blasphemous moments. Bent on ridding society of it's most boring element, suburbanites, Divine and company tour under the guise of Lady Divine's Cavalcade of Perversions, a not-so-elaborate ruse to lure in the most complacent … Courtesy of The Verve Music Group. Brand New 70MM Film Print | Featuring An Exclusive Behind-The-Scenes Look at TENETDom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a thief with the rare ability to enter people's dreams and steal their secrets fr... Get showtimes & inside information on special events!
The commander is dead, the flight engineer in coma.... Five YouTubers join an online video-call and find themselves haunted and hunted by a mysterious internet troll. Movie: Multiple Maniacs (1970) info with movie soundtracks, credited songs, film score albums, reviews, news, and more. Performed by Sil Austin. Extremely Limited Seating Available. A suburban housewife's world falls apart when she finds that her pornographer husband is serially unfaithful to her, her daughter is pregnant, and her son is suspected of being the foot-fetishist who's been breaking local women's feet. Child actors perform a 'kid-friendly' table read version of John Water's notorious 1972 X-rated cult classic film, Pink Flamingos. Multiple Maniacs is one of Waters most perfect films in terms of the dialogue. A beautiful exploration of mise-en-scène, REAR WINDOW stars Jimmy Stewart as wheelchair bound photographer L.B. Almost two decades after the show… (from 2016 version's on-screen credits) Holy, Holy, Holy. This was double the budget of Waters’ previous feature, “Mondo Trasho,” and “Multiple Maniacs” went that outdid that earlier effort by having a synchronized soundtrack.The film also secured the essential Waters ensemble: Divine, naturally, as Lady Divine (made up to recall Joan Crawford circa 1948), David Lochary as the weak-willed Mr. David, Mink Stole as the lady with the rosary, Cookie Mueller as the doomed daughter, Mary Vivian Pearce as Mr. David’s secret lover, and Edith Massey doing double duty as a barmaid who informs Lady Divine of Mr. David’s infidelity and as the Virgin Mary.