New Line Cinema
Directed by John Waters
My rating: 1.5 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(Blu-ray, Criterion Collection)
A suburban freak show lures curious housewives and their husbands, who are promptly robbed at gun point then murdered by one of the performers at the end. The perpetrator, a massive transvestite who goes by the name "Lady Divine", easily escapes and returns to her home in the city with her boyfriend, "Mr. David", the emcee for the show. She gets a call from the owner of a local bar who says she has seen her boyfriend with another woman, and goes there presumably to kill him. Along the way, she is raped then diverted to a church by a young woman who seduces her in a pew. The two new lovers proceed to find her boyfriend, who along with his new girlfriend have decided to murder Divine. It doesn't end well, and then the giant lobster shows up. Massive cult film is certainly unique, but that is not to say it is very good. Amateurishly acted and technically inept, it attempts to offend just about everyone with its ridiculous scenes of sodomy and cannibalism. However, it is never boring!
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