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#6 – Multiple Maniacs (1970)
Director: John Waters
Writer: John Waters
Cast: Divine, Mink Stole, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Cookie Mueller
Cert: 18
Running time: 96 minutes
Year: 1970
Contemporary review:
“Even the garbage is too good a place for it.” –
Mary Avara, Maryland Board of Censors
“(Print) Destroyed” – Canadian Censor report
Film:
Extras:
What’s the story: A couple who front a bizarre traveling circus become murderous when their relationship collapses.
What’s the verdict: “A CELLULOID ATROCITY!” pants the original, hand drawn promotional material for John Waters’ sophomore feature. And it ain’t lying.
47 years may have tempered Multiple Maniacs’ shock value, but trace echoes remain of just how bizarre and vile it must have...
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