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As usual, you can find the basics at [[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067454/reference IMDB]] and at [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_Maniacs Wikipedia]].



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''Multiple Maniacs'' is a 1970 [[{{Horror}} Horror]]-Crime-[[{{Comedy}} Comedy]] film directed by Creator/JohnWaters. It was his second feature film, after ''Mondo Trasho'', and the last one shot in [[DeliberatelyMonochrome black and white]]. It tells the story of Lady Divine and Mr. David (Lochary), who have a traveling freak show called "The Cavalcade of Perversions," which is a front for robbing and killing spectators. Everything goes [[FromBadToWorse downhill from there]].


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''Multiple Maniacs'' is a 1970 [[{{Horror}} Horror]]-Crime-[[{{Comedy}} Comedy]] film directed by Creator/JohnWaters. It was his second feature film, after ''Mondo Trasho'', and the last one shot in [[DeliberatelyMonochrome black and white]]. It tells the story of [[Creator/DivineActor Lady Divine Divine]] and Mr. David (Lochary), who have a traveling freak show called "The Cavalcade of Perversions," which is a front for robbing and killing spectators. Everything goes [[FromBadToWorse downhill from there]].

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* GuyOnGuyIsHot: Subverted. One of the exhibitions if "two actual queers kissing each other like lovers on the lips," which the audience finds repulsive.

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* GuyOnGuyIsHot: Subverted. One of the exhibitions if is "two actual queers kissing each other like lovers on the lips," which the audience finds repulsive.

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''Multiple Maniacs'' is a 1970 [[{{Horror}} Horror]]-Crime-[[{{Comedy}} Comedy]] film directed by Creator/JohnWaters. It was his second feature film, after ''Mondo Trasho'', and the last one shot in [[DeliberatelyMonochrome black and white]]. It tells the story of Lady Divine and Mr. David (Lochary), who have a traveling freak show called "The Cavalcade of Perversions," which is a front for robbing and killing spectators. Everything goes downhill from there.


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''Multiple Maniacs'' is a 1970 [[{{Horror}} Horror]]-Crime-[[{{Comedy}} Comedy]] film directed by Creator/JohnWaters. It was his second feature film, after ''Mondo Trasho'', and the last one shot in [[DeliberatelyMonochrome black and white]]. It tells the story of Lady Divine and Mr. David (Lochary), who have a traveling freak show called "The Cavalcade of Perversions," which is a front for robbing and killing spectators. Everything goes [[FromBadToWorse downhill from there.

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* {{Fangirl}}: Bonnie wants to join the Cavalcade.
* {{Fat B|astard}}itch: Divine, in her usual AxCrazy persona.
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* BlackComedyRape: Divine, by a giant lobster.
* TheFreakshow: The Cavalcade of Perversions.

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* BlackComedyRape: Divine, by a giant lobster.
lobster named Lobstora, among other examples.
* TheFreakshow: The Cavalcade of Perversions.Perversions, which includes the two guys kissing described below, the puke-eater, and a photographer snapping the crotch of a nude woman.

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''Multiple Maniacs'' is a 1970 [[{{Horror}} Horror]]-Crime-[[{{Comedy}} Comedy]] film directed by Creator/JohnWaters. It was his second feature film, after ''Mondo Trasho'', and the last one shot in [[DeliberatelyMonochrome black and white]]. It tells the story of Lady Divine and Mr. David (Lochary), who have a traveling freak show called "The Cavalcade of Perversions," which is a front for robbing and killing spectators.



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''Multiple Maniacs'' is a 1970 [[{{Horror}} Horror]]-Crime-[[{{Comedy}} Comedy]] film directed by Creator/JohnWaters. It was his second feature film, after ''Mondo Trasho'', and the last one shot in [[DeliberatelyMonochrome black and white]]. It tells the story of Lady Divine and Mr. David (Lochary), who have a traveling freak show called "The Cavalcade of Perversions," which is a front for robbing and killing spectators.


spectators. Everything goes downhill from there.


As usual, you can find the basics at [[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067454/reference IMDB]] and at [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_Maniacs Wikipedia]].





* RefugeInAudacity: It's a John Waters movie, this comes with the territory.

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* RefugeInAudacity: It's a John Waters movie, this comes with the territory.territory.
* ShoutOut: The title is one to Creator/HerschellGordonLewis' ''Film/TwoThousandManiacs''.
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''Multiple Maniacs'' is a 1970 {{Horror}}-Crime-Comedy film directed by Creator/JohnWaters. It was his second feature film, after ''Mondo Trasho'', and the last one shot in [[DeliberatelyMonochrome black and white]]. It tells the story of Lady Divine and Mr. David (Lochary), who have a traveling freak show called "The Cavalcade of Perversions," which is a front for robbing and killing spectators.



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''Multiple Maniacs'' is a 1970 {{Horror}}-Crime-Comedy [[{{Horror}} Horror]]-Crime-[[{{Comedy}} Comedy]] film directed by Creator/JohnWaters. It was his second feature film, after ''Mondo Trasho'', and the last one shot in [[DeliberatelyMonochrome black and white]]. It tells the story of Lady Divine and Mr. David (Lochary), who have a traveling freak show called "The Cavalcade of Perversions," which is a front for robbing and killing spectators.


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''Multiple Maniacs'' is a 1970 {{Horror}}-Crime-Comedy film directed by Creator/JohnWaters. It was his second feature film, after ''Mondo Trasho'', and the last one shot in [[DeliberatelyMonochrome black and white]]. It tells the story of Lady Divine and Mr. David (Lochary), who have a traveling freak show called "The Cavalcade of Perversions," which is a front for robbing and killing spectators.



!! "Maniacal Tropes":
* BlackComedyRape: Divine, by a giant lobster.
* TheFreakshow: The Cavalcade of Perversions.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Divine's "maniac" speech near the end is [[MeaningfulEcho echoed]] in Connie Marble saying how she loves her own filthiness in ''Film/PinkFlamingos'' and the "Crime is beauty" discussions in ''Film/FemaleTrouble.''
* GuyOnGuyIsHot: Subverted. One of the exhibitions if "two actual queers kissing each other like lovers on the lips," which the audience finds repulsive.
* RefugeInAudacity: It's a John Waters movie, this comes with the territory.

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