I first discovered the documentary Who Took Johnny from Artforum magazine when John Waters named it as one of his Films of the Year for 2014. I found the trailer for it on YouTube and it REALLY freaked me out. Johnny Gosch was a 14 year old boy who went missing whilst delivering newspapers in …
With the news that Female Trouble, John Waters' meisterwerk and design for living is being shown, my noggin got a joggin'. I started thinking about the films that I've been lucky enough to watch on the big screen and with an audience. My favourite filmgoing experience has to be when I got to see a …
Continue reading Excursions Into Hell: My Favourite Filmgoing Experiences
Layabout crazy cat Jerry (played by the director Ray Dennis Steckler under the hilarious pseudonym Cash Flagg), his girlfriend Angela and his friend Harold go to the seaside to visit a carnival there. After getting their fortunes told they see the fortune tellers sister Carmelita who is a stripper. Jerry is seen by Angela to be …
Duane books into the sleazy flophouse Hotel Broslin with a large basket. It's contents consist of his deformed twin brother who he used to be conjoined with. Both Duane and his twin are hellbent on enacting revenge on the surgeons who separated them against their wishes. Basket Case will always occupy a special place in …
Continue reading Day 17- 31 Days of Halloween- Basket Case (1982)
On 8th November 2013 John Waters performed his one-man show at Liverpool Philharmonic and was on top form. I attended this show and had a whale of a time. There was a signing session after the show and the line to get stuff signed was HUGE. But not many people knew that there was to …
A video I made. Do you agree? Top 10 John Waters Movies
This film should be filed under 'Uncategorisable Gem'. Lead character is twelve year Jamie. Hes obsessed with sex, his only friend is an evil teddy bear and he knows if a pit inhabited by a pack of mutant trolls called trolologs. Just your average movie plot. This movie is so brilliantly written complete with quirky …
Continue reading The Pit (1981)- Day 5- 31 Days of Halloween
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