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| 2 | [[caption-width-right:166:[[{{Tagline}} "You won't believe this one"]]]] |
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| 4 | ''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]] 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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| 6 | !! "Maniacal Tropes": |
| 7 | * BlackComedyRape: Divine, by a giant lobster named Lobstora, among other examples. |
| 8 | * {{Fangirl}}: Bonnie wants to join the Cavalcade. |
| 9 | * {{Fat B|astard}}itch: Divine, in her usual AxCrazy persona. |
| 10 | * TheFreakshow: The Cavalcade of Perversions, which includes the two guys kissing described below, the puke-eater, and a photographer snapping the crotch of a nude woman. |
| 11 | * {{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.'' |
| 12 | * GuyOnGuyIsHot: Subverted. One of the exhibitions is "two actual queers kissing each other like lovers on the lips," which the audience finds repulsive. |
| 13 | * RefugeInAudacity: It's a John Waters movie, this comes with the territory. |
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