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** A fan of the ''Franchise/ChildsPlay'' movies, he got to be a victim of Chucky in ''Film/SeedOfChucky''.
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** A fan of the ''Franchise/ChildsPlay'' movies, franchise, he got to be a victim appeared as one of Chucky Chucky's victims in ''Film/SeedOfChucky''.''Film/SeedOfChucky'' and later as a different character in the TV series ''Series/{{Chucky}}''.
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Waters' films are all [[CreatorProvincialism shot in (and take place in) his hometown of Baltimore]], are [[RefugeInAudacity packed with as much sleaze as possible]], and [[CrossesTheLineTwice celebrate trashy Americana]] through a distinctive {{camp}} lens, with kitschy fashions and gaudy designs featured prominently. They also employ a [[ProductionPosse regular troupe of actors]] largely drawn from Waters' circle of friends and known as the Dreamlanders, chief among them the late [[{{DragQueen}} drag performer]] Creator/{{Divine|Actor}}.
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* AlternateDVDCommentary: Provides it for ''Film/ChristmasEvil'', of all things. Also provided one for ''Literature/MommieDearest''.
* AffectionateParody: Of So Bad It's Good [[BMovie B-Movies]].
* AffectionateParody: Of So Bad It's Good [[BMovie B-Movies]].
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* AlternateDVDCommentary: Provides it for ''Film/ChristmasEvil'', of all things. Also He provided one some for ''Literature/MommieDearest''.
''Film/ChristmasEvil'' and ''Literature/MommieDearest'', of all things.
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* {{Cloudcuckooland}}: Baltimore and its suburbs.
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* {{Cloudcuckooland}}: Baltimore and its suburbs.suburbs are portrayed as this frequently in his films.
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* CreatorKiller: His last film, ''A Dirty Shame'', was such a box office bomb that it prevented him from making more films including a Christmas film called ''Fruitcake''. It would take another 18 years before he'd get the chance to direct again with an adaptation of his first novel, Liarmouth.
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* CreatorKiller: His last most recent film, ''A Dirty Shame'', was such a box notorious {{box office bomb bomb}} that it prevented him from making more films films, including a Christmas film called ''Fruitcake''. It would take another 18 years before he'd Waters would get the chance to direct again with an adaptation of his first novel, Liarmouth.''Liarmouth''.
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* GenreShift: ''Polyester'' was his first step toward the mainstream. It took him to ''Hairspray'' to actually get there, but, it is the earliest film of his that Creator/LeonardMaltin includes a review of in his books.
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* GenreShift: ''Polyester'' was his first step toward the mainstream. It took him to until ''Hairspray'' to actually get there, but, it is there; however, it's the earliest film of his that Creator/LeonardMaltin includes a review of in his books.
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* PopularityPolynomial: He's experienced a surge in popularity, due to a growing LGBTQ movement, the success of the ''Theatre/{{Hairspray}}'' musical and [[Film/Hairspray2007 remake of the film]], his book ''Carsick'', about him hitchhiking across the country and an episode of ''Series/RuPaulsDragRace'' centered around his movies.
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* PopularityPolynomial: He's experienced a surge in popularity, due to a growing LGBTQ movement, the success of the ''Theatre/{{Hairspray}}'' musical and [[Film/Hairspray2007 remake of the film]], his book ''Carsick'', about him hitchhiking across the country country, and an episode of ''Series/RuPaulsDragRace'' centered around his movies.
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** A fan of the ''Franchise/ChildsPlay'' movies, he got to be a victim of Chucky in ''Film/SeedOfChucky''
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** A fan of the ''Franchise/ChildsPlay'' movies, he got to be a victim of Chucky in ''Film/SeedOfChucky''''Film/SeedOfChucky''.
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* StylisticSuck: All his films are intentionally trashy.
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* StylisticSuck: All of his films are intentionally trashy.
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** Also in the 90s Waters attempted a movie called ''Glamourpuss'.' There were two different versions presented but in the end nothing came from it but parts were reused in ''Cecil B. Demented'' especially the movie's second name ''Raving Beauty''.
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** Also in the 90s Waters attempted a movie called ''Glamourpuss'.' ''Glamourpuss''. There were two different versions presented but presented, though in the end nothing came from it it; but parts of it were reused in ''Cecil B. Demented'' Demented'', especially the movie's second name ''Raving Beauty''.
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* ''Liarmouth'' (2023)
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* ''Liarmouth'' (2023)(202X)
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* NoAnimalsWereHarmed:
** Averted. Several chickens are decapitated in ''Mondo Trasho'', and a chicken is raped and crushed to death in ''Pink Flamingos''. Regarding the latter, he said:
-->"Animal rights activists always say to me 'How could you kill a chicken for a movie?' Well, I eat chicken, and I know the chicken didn't land on my plate from a heart attack. We bought the chicken from a farmer who advertised freshly-killed chicken. I think we made the chicken's life better. It got to be in a movie, got fucked, and then right after filming the next take, the cast ''ate'' the chicken."
** He has gone on record as saying he ''does'' regret killing the chickens in ''Mondo Trasho'', since he just left them in the gutter to rot.
** Averted. Several chickens are decapitated in ''Mondo Trasho'', and a chicken is raped and crushed to death in ''Pink Flamingos''. Regarding the latter, he said:
-->"Animal rights activists always say to me 'How could you kill a chicken for a movie?' Well, I eat chicken, and I know the chicken didn't land on my plate from a heart attack. We bought the chicken from a farmer who advertised freshly-killed chicken. I think we made the chicken's life better. It got to be in a movie, got fucked, and then right after filming the next take, the cast ''ate'' the chicken."
** He has gone on record as saying he ''does'' regret killing the chickens in ''Mondo Trasho'', since he just left them in the gutter to rot.
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* TheDanza: He voiced the CampGay antique dealer John in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E15HomersPhobia "Homer's Phobia"]]. On the episode's commentary he notes what an odd experience it was to voice a character whose name was John, who looked like him, and was gay, but wasn't actually him.
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* TheDanza: He voiced the CampGay antique dealer John in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E15HomersPhobia "Homer's Phobia"]]. On the episode's commentary he notes what an odd experience it was to voice a character whose name was John, who looked like him, and [[QueerCharacterQueerActor was gay, gay]], but wasn't actually him.
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* BuryYourArt: Waters refuses to release his first three films in any format, and they have not appeared since their original showings. This may be in part due to their presentation; ''Roman Candles'', for example, consists of three separate reels of footage shown on three screens simultaneously, without sound, as a separate audio recording plays. This isn't something you can replicate on a DVD player (he did have ''Roman Candles'' transferred to videotape in the 1980s, using a 4-panel split screen, with one screen left blank, which he has shown at festival and academic screenings).
* CreatorKiller: His last film, ''A Dirty Shame'', was such a box office bomb that it prevented him from making more films including a Christmas film called ''Fruitcake''. It would take another 18 years before he'd get the chance to direct again with an adaptation of his first novel, Liarmouth.
* TheDanza: He voiced the CampGay antique dealer John in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E15HomersPhobia "Homer's Phobia"]]. On the episode's commentary he notes what an odd experience it was to voice a character whose name was John, who looked like him, and was gay, but wasn't actually him.
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* TheKnightsWhoSaySquee: In ''Shock Value'', he tells a story about bringing his Dreamlanders crew up to New York City to visit Creator/AndyWarhol's Factory, and that Warhol was absolutely amazed by Edith Massey.
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* NoAnimalsWereHarmed: Averted. Several chickens are decapitated in ''Mondo Trasho'', and a chicken is raped and crushed to death in ''Pink Flamingos''. Regarding the latter, he said:
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* NoAnimalsWereHarmed: NoAnimalsWereHarmed:
** Averted. Several chickens are decapitated in ''Mondo Trasho'', and a chicken is raped and crushed to death in ''Pink Flamingos''. Regarding the latter, he said:
** Averted. Several chickens are decapitated in ''Mondo Trasho'', and a chicken is raped and crushed to death in ''Pink Flamingos''. Regarding the latter, he said:
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* NoBudget: Most of his early works. To name one, ''Multiple Maniacs'' was made on $5000; it would have cost more, except a friend of his shoplifted the film stock.
* PopularityPolynomial: He's experienced a surge in popularity, due to a growing LGBTQ movement, the success of the ''Theatre/{{Hairspray}}'' musical and [[Film/Hairspray2007 remake of the film]], his book ''Carsick'', about him hitchhiking across the country and an episode of ''Series/RuPaulsDragRace'' centered around his movies.
* ProductionPosse: In 60s and 70s Baltimore, Waters was at the center of a group of countercultural oddballs, outcasts, and petty criminals called the Dreamlanders who acted in and worked on his films. Divine, Mink Stole, Mary Vivian Pearce, David Lochary, and Edith Massey are some of the most prominent.
* PromotedFanboy:
** A fan of the works of Creator/HerschellGordonLewis, especially ''Film/BloodFeast.'' He even got to act in the sequel.
** A fan of the ''Franchise/ChildsPlay'' movies, he got to be a victim of Chucky in ''Film/SeedOfChucky''
** He interviewed Lewis and Russ Meyer, another favorite of his, for his first autobiography, ''Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste.''
** In an episode of ''Series/{{Feud}}'', he got the chance to play Creator/WilliamCastle, another of his idols.
** Also to [[Film/TheAstroZombies Ted V.]] [[Film/GirlInGoldBoots Mikels]], as he narrates in a documentary about the man called ''The Wild World of Ted V. Mikels''.
* PopularityPolynomial: He's experienced a surge in popularity, due to a growing LGBTQ movement, the success of the ''Theatre/{{Hairspray}}'' musical and [[Film/Hairspray2007 remake of the film]], his book ''Carsick'', about him hitchhiking across the country and an episode of ''Series/RuPaulsDragRace'' centered around his movies.
* ProductionPosse: In 60s and 70s Baltimore, Waters was at the center of a group of countercultural oddballs, outcasts, and petty criminals called the Dreamlanders who acted in and worked on his films. Divine, Mink Stole, Mary Vivian Pearce, David Lochary, and Edith Massey are some of the most prominent.
* PromotedFanboy:
** A fan of the works of Creator/HerschellGordonLewis, especially ''Film/BloodFeast.'' He even got to act in the sequel.
** A fan of the ''Franchise/ChildsPlay'' movies, he got to be a victim of Chucky in ''Film/SeedOfChucky''
** He interviewed Lewis and Russ Meyer, another favorite of his, for his first autobiography, ''Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste.''
** In an episode of ''Series/{{Feud}}'', he got the chance to play Creator/WilliamCastle, another of his idols.
** Also to [[Film/TheAstroZombies Ted V.]] [[Film/GirlInGoldBoots Mikels]], as he narrates in a documentary about the man called ''The Wild World of Ted V. Mikels''.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: John has a few examples of planned movies that never happened:
** As said above he was to make the Christmas film ''Fruitcake'' until the failure of ''A Dirty Shame''.
** John loves the movie ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'', to the point he started work on a film called ''Dorothy the Kansas City Pothead'', which would have had the cast lip syncing to a tape recorder, John even got a Press Release for the film but soon abandoned the movie with only a few minutes of film shot.
** Creator/AndyWarhol offered to produce Female Trouble but John refused as it would have been Warhol's movie and not his.
** The gap between ''Polyester'' and ''Hairspray'' was because John tried to get ''Flamingos Forever'' off the ground but in the end Divine's desire for serious roles and Edith Massey's death ended the chances, but the script appears in the book ''Trash Trio''.
** After Massey's death Waters attempted to bring ''Literature/AConfederacyOfDunces'' to the screen with Divine as Ignatius J. Reilly which never got far.
** Also in the 90s Waters attempted a movie called ''Glamourpuss'.' There were two different versions presented but in the end nothing came from it but parts were reused in ''Cecil B. Demented'' especially the movie's second name ''Raving Beauty''.
** As said above he was to make the Christmas film ''Fruitcake'' until the failure of ''A Dirty Shame''.
** John loves the movie ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'', to the point he started work on a film called ''Dorothy the Kansas City Pothead'', which would have had the cast lip syncing to a tape recorder, John even got a Press Release for the film but soon abandoned the movie with only a few minutes of film shot.
** Creator/AndyWarhol offered to produce Female Trouble but John refused as it would have been Warhol's movie and not his.
** The gap between ''Polyester'' and ''Hairspray'' was because John tried to get ''Flamingos Forever'' off the ground but in the end Divine's desire for serious roles and Edith Massey's death ended the chances, but the script appears in the book ''Trash Trio''.
** After Massey's death Waters attempted to bring ''Literature/AConfederacyOfDunces'' to the screen with Divine as Ignatius J. Reilly which never got far.
** Also in the 90s Waters attempted a movie called ''Glamourpuss'.' There were two different versions presented but in the end nothing came from it but parts were reused in ''Cecil B. Demented'' especially the movie's second name ''Raving Beauty''.
