This article is the first in a series I'm calling the Trash Triptych in which I'll be looking at the John Waters movies Pink Flamingos (1972), Female Trouble (1974) and Polyester (1981). My introduction to John Waters was actually an indirect one. It's Thursday 19th of July 1984 and I'm watching Top of the Pops. …
Visitors to this page will know that I'm a MASSIVE John Waters fan. When his latest opus, A Dirty Shame was released I eagerly sought out one of the few cinemas that was showing the film in London where I lived at the time after graduating with a degree in Film Studies. There was a …
Continue reading Is It Really That Bad?- A Dirty Shame (2004)
Artist Adam finds that his paintings are so much better when he starts to use human blood on his canvases as well as paint. Ironically the gallery owner who sells his work and the art buyers now love his new artworks not knowing that he's using blood and bumping people off to make sure he …
Continue reading Day 3- 31 Days of Halloween 2023- Color Me Blood Red (1965)
I love that as I progress through this Top 10, the more I write on the films. I tried to keep each description down to a couple of succinct sentences but trying to do that with masterpieces like Pink Flamingos, Polyester and Female Trouble was impossible. John Waters isn't just a brilliant film director, screenwriter …
Out of all of the cinematic genres, I'd say apart from horror, that of the documentary is my favourite. A fantastic true story told brilliantly is worth it's weight in gold. Which leads us onto my Top 10 favourite documentaries of all time. Hold onto your hats- these aren't your average examples of the genre... …
I first heard about the opus Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! when I bought a book that still remains like a cine-bible to me, Re:Search's Incredibly Strange Films. There was a chapter on Russ Meyer (as there should be in any self-respecting book on cult cinema) and I was instantly taken with the huge picture of …
Eddie Turner steps on a landmine whilst serving in Nam and loses his limbs as a result. His fiance Winifred is a physicist and looks to her former teacher Doctor Stein (his name is a red flag already) who has recently won the Nobel prize for his work regarding DNA and so may be able …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween- Day 5- Blackenstein (1973)
Following a very messy suicide involving a shotgun (there's a cameo by Ruby Wax who stars as a secretary), the American Ambassador to Britain position is now made vacant. It's then filled by one Damian Thorn, businessman, politician and Son of the Devil. This was the job once held by his father, y'know, the one …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween- Day 4- Omen III: The Final Conflict (1981)
I first heard of this Yuletide horror flick as John Waters spoke about it as being his favourite seasonal cinematic shocker. With such high praise from The Prince of Puke I later heard it was being shown at a local cinema in Sydney, Australia where I lived for a year (it was actually shown as …
I've uploaded the audiobooks for two John Waters books onto YouTube. Shock Value from 1981 is here whilst Crackpot from 1986 is here. Both are classic texts and extremely funny. Listen to 'How To Become Famous' on Crackpot to listen to Waters laughing at how outrageous his own text is. I've decided to add Book of …
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