Multiple maniacs (Motion picture)

Multiple maniacs / Dreamland Studios presents ; produced, directed, written, filmed and edited by John Waters ; a Dreamland production.

Director-approved DVD special edition.

[New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2017]

1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in. stamping

"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 sequences. 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 ... Multiple Maniacs is an anarchic masterwork from an artist who has doggedly tested the limits of good taste for decades"--Container.

Title on container: John Waters' multiple maniacs

Images / Video & Film

English

October 13, 2017

Original music, George S. Clinton.

Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole, Cookie Mueller, Edith Massey, Susan Lowe, Rick Morrow, Howard Gruber, Paul Swift, Vince 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, Suzie Nichols, Steve Waters, Julia Richardson, Will Cullen, Jack Roberts, Mark Isherwood, Berenica Cipcus, Hawley Peterson, Tom Wells, Michael Renner, Cowboy, George Figgs.

DVD; region 1, NTSC; 16:9 widescreen (1.66:1 aspect ratio); Dolby Digital mono.