Multiple Maniacs

John Waters’ gloriously grotesque, unavailable-for-decades second feature comes to the big screen at long last, 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 Baltimore, with Waters taking on nearly every technical task, Multiple Maniacs is a gleeful mockery of the peace-and-love ethos of its era. It follows the adventures of the Cavalcade of Perversion – a travelling show put on by a troupe of misfits whose shocking proclivities are topped only by those of their leader: the glammer-than-glam, larger-than-life Divine, who’s out for blood after discovering her lover’s affair.