MULTIPLE MANIACS

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• Release Year: 1970
• Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror
• Plot: John Waters' gloriously grotesque second feature is replete with all manner of depravity, from robbery to murder to one of cinema's most memorably blasphemous moments. Made on a shoestring budget in Waters' native Baltimore, with the filmmaker taking on nearly every technical task, this gleeful mockery of the peace-and-love ethos of its era features the Cavalcade of Perversion, a traveling show mounted by a troupe of misfits whose shocking proclivities are topped only by those of their leader: the glammer-than-glam, larger-than-life Divine, out for blood after discovering her lover's affair. 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), Multiple Maniacs is an anarchic masterwork from an artist who has doggedly tested the limits of good taste for decades.
• Cast: Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole, Cookie Mueller, Edith Massey, Susan Lowe, Rick Morrow, Howard Gruber, Paul Swift, Vincent Peranio, Jim Thompson, Dee Vitolo, Ed Peranio, Bob Skidmore, Margie Skidmore, Jack Walsh, Susan Walsh, Gilbert McGill, Pat Moran, Paul Landis, Mark Lazarus, Harvey Freed, Susie Nichols, Steve Waters, Julia Richardson, William Kirby Cullen, Berenica Cipcus, Tom Wells, Michael Renner Jr., Cowboy Foulke, George Figgs, Alan Reese, John Waters, George S. Clinton
• Director: John Waters
• Runtime: 1:37
• Company: Dreamland Studios
• Media Format: Movie