Three by John Waters - Criterion Channel Teaser

In the 1970s, something strange bubbled up from the Baltimore underground, something shocking, transgressive, outrageously funny, and oh-so-queer. With their demented blend of scuzz and camp, the early films of John Waters quickly became cult sensations and made his singular star and muse, the larger-than-life Divine, a counterculture icon. This selection of three of Waters’ most blasphemous provocations—the sideshow shocker MULTIPLE MANIACS, notoriously perverse black comedy PINK FLAMINGOS, and lurid melodrama FEMALE TROUBLE—are testaments to the warped and wickedly funny imagination that have made him the reigning Pope of Trash. Now playing on the Criterion Channel:
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