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BBFC RatingOutburst: Multiple Maniacs

Certificate18
Year1970
GenreComedy, Crime, Horror
Director(s)John Waters
LanguageEnglsih
CountryUSA
Running Time1HR 30MINS
SeasonOutburst

Outburst brings you the very best in new queer cinema in partnership with QFT. Visit outburstarts.com for details of the full festival programme which takes place from 10-19 November.

In celebration of John Waters’ first visit to Belfast, Outburst presents a special one-off screening of his infamous 1970 film, Multiple Maniacs.

Starring the legendary Divine, Waters’ second feature has only ever been released on VHS, so this restored print offers a rare opportunity to see what is arguably his most outrageous and transgressive film.
Shot low budget and in low-contrast, grainy black-and-white, Multiple Maniacs opens with a carnival barker (David Lochary), attracting customers to Lady Divine’sCavalcade Of Perversion. Curious passersby who take in the freak show are “treated” to a mutitude of bizarre and lurid specatacles,luring them to where Lady Divine can rob them.

Also starring Dreamland regulars Mink Stole, Mary Vivian Pearce and Cookie Mueller, and featuring more than a few anarchic and jaw dropping moments, this is punk, provocative, queer, irreverent cinema at its best (and worst) and definitely not for those with delicate or refined sensibilities.

A rare treat for Waters fanatics.


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