The second full-length film by trash cinema guru John Waters, 1970’s Multiple Maniacs stars the late, great Divine as the proprietor of a freak show who grows weary of her day job and, like many of us, decides to go on a madness-fueled spree of deviant terror! Shot in arthouse cinema black-and-white, and deranged even for Waters’ bizarre cinematic catalog, Multiple Maniac remains a stone classic of DIY, dark comedy filmmaking. Waters called up his go-to cast members, early film regulars like Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole and Edith Massey.
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Screens Friday, Sept. 2-Thursday, Sept. 8, Sun-Ray Cinema, Riverside, $9.50; $8 military, students and teachers;
$7 seniors, sunraycinema.com.
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