"Proves how a dose of smart bad taste can be jolly good fun!" - Time Our summer-long John Waters retrospective kicks off with one of his most underrated features: a mocking self-tribute to weirdos, outlaws, and the transgressive power of…

"Sex offences that would shock the Marquis de Sade!" - Rex Reed Glamour has never been more grotesque than in FEMALE TROUBLE, which injects the Hollywood melodrama with anarchic decadence. Divine, director John Waters’ larger-than-life muse, engulfs the screen with charisma as…

"Genuinely subversive!" - Sight & Sound Tracy Turnblad has big dreams of dancing on TV and she's not going to 1960s conventional beauty standards get in her way. Overnight she becomes the queen of The Corny Collins Show and leads…

"It's sleazy! It's trashy! It's surprisingly charming!" - The Hungry Creatures Eisenhower is President. Rock 'n' roll is king. And Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker is the baddest hood in his high school. Johnny Depp heads up a supercool cast as the…

“Bizarre! Insane! Macabre! delight to trash lovers everywhere” - Derek Winnert A trash cinema spectacle combining the queer-underground ethos of Kenneth Anger and Andy Warhol with a carnival freak show, Mondo Trasho is where it all began for the Pope…

We're presenting Polyester as the Prince of Puke intended it to be seen (and smelled)—in Odorama! Each ticket includes a scratch-'n'-sniff Odorama card from Smell Art, so you can fill your nose with farts, skunk smells, car leather, and more as…

"A Dirty Shame is Waters unleashed, and wicked, kinky fun for anyone except the twits who rated it NC-17...You may even shed a tear when Sylvia bonds with her daughter by confessing, '"'I'm a cunnilingus bottom.' ... he Waters spirit stays…

“I dare anyone not to take John Waters seriously after DESPERATE LIVING. He remains the visionary of camp and the den mother of the bizarre… This film is a triumphant example of the most vital bad taste in America.” -…

“Uproariously funny, maliciously malicious!" - Time Out The Pope of Trash satirizes the dark heart of suburban normalcy in this wicked black comedy. Kathleen Turner plays wholesome suburban mom Beverly, a picture-perfect homemaker whose fascination with serial killers transforms her…

“A sassy, irreverent movie about art, fame, culture shock, and class consciousness” - Faith & Spirituality Who but John Waters would have given his sweetest and most personal film a name like Pecker? Edward Furlong stars as the eponymous teen,…