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A celluloid atrocity!
Lady Divine becomes enraged when her boyfriend cheats on her and descends into a life of murder and mayhem.
Multiple Maniacs
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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 Jack Roberts Mark Isherwood Show All…
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Maníacos múltiples, マルチプル・マニアックス, Pełny wybór maniaków, Множественные маньяки, John Waters' Multiple Maniacs, 疯狂人生
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10 Apr 1970
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Imagine seeing this only a few months after Watson and company were arrested for the Tate-LaBianca murders. If you want, replace that with more recent murders to get a sense of how scandalous, how tasteless, how tacky this was. Add to that the idea of John Waters doing anything depicting Jesus Christ (with Edith Massey as the Virgin Mary) intercut with Divine being fucked with a rosary. Include bicycle seat-sniffing, vomit-eating, and a brazen mockery of 1970s values and views on homosexuality and normalcy. Film it with little regard to convention, a mixture of awkward and inventive camera angles, and performances that drip with histrionics. And then, there's a lobster.
I've written before about how Waters' films tend show more…
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"And then, to my horror and amazement, the Infant of Prague appeared before me! Oh, his angelic gaze hypnotized me! I was dumbstruck! How had he gotten to Bond street?"
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Jesus might have died as a sacrifice for our sins, but Divine got raped by a 15-foot lobster after having a rosary shoved up her ass just for the sake of art. This is how I know who to pray for each day.
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“It was then that I realized that she was using her rosary as a tool of erotic pleasure!”
only a John Waters film would coin the term “rosaryjob”.
so obscene, so irreverent, so ludicrous... so much fun!!!!!! Waters is just too good for this world we don’t deserve him
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Divine is one of the great movie stars of American cinema. She overwhelms the camera like few others ever have. Waters liked comparing Divine's drag presence to that of Godzilla and that's an appropriate point of reference. They have a similar ethos of stomping and destroying anything and everything that has the unfortunate luck of coming into their path, and like Godzilla, I can't help but love the monster. May Divine reign forever.
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The church scene really gives a whole new meaning to the name Divine. And when the lobster showed up, I fully lost it. Just utterly shellshocked by shellfish.
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"rosary job"
"I love you so fucking much I could shit!"
"Gay!? I'm no lesbian. At least not until a little while ago."
The out of focus close-up shot of a post-homicide, sweaty, deranged Divine wearing what looks like six-inches of dark lipstick and a gallon of (liquid?) eyeliner belongs in a museum (example: s3.amazonaws.com/auteurs_production/images/film/multiple-maniacs/w448/multiple-maniacs.jpg ).
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