This week, we continue our deep dive into John Waters’s Dreamland with an Iconography on Divine. Perhaps you have been reading our blog for the past week and want to know more about this cult icon. If that’s the case, pull up a seat and I’ll tell you more about John Waters’s muse, the heavenly Divine.(more…)
When John Waters set out to make Pink Flamingos, he may have been looking to stir the pot but he made a bigger splash than he ever could have imagined. Pink Flamingos is a cult masterpiece: bizarre, shocking, kitschy, and absurd. I would count it among one of the strangest films I’ve ever seen. However, we must remember it’s only a movie. If you aren’t too easily offended perhaps you can withstand the shock, the filth, and the horror of Pink Flamingos. Don’t say I didn’t warn you! Without further ado, let us commence our exploration of the most bizarre and filthiest cult film ever!(more…)
Hey, Worms n’ Germs! Welcome to our first Eccentrica blog post. Eccentrica is a place where the real and unreal collide, the borders of fantasy and reality. Posts under Eccentrica will explore a variety of topics outside of the mainstream. For our first trip to Eccentrica, I invite you to step back in time to the late 1960s San Francisco, a place that embraced the bizarre and eccentric.
At the dawn of the 1970s, New Year’s Eve 1969, a troupe of unique performers took the stage at the Palace Theater in San Francisco. They performed the can-can dance, followed up with an encore, during which they stripped to The Rolling Stones’s Honky Tonk Woman. They were The Cockettes, a group of glittery drag queens who would leave an indelible mark on LGBTQ+ history. Their anarchic performances blazed a trail for future drag queens. They introduced the term genderfuck which influenced a scene in which future drag icon RuPaul got her start. If you love drag and don’t know who The Cockettes are, I suggest you pull up a seat and learn about these innovative performers.(more…)
To continue our ongoing series of cult film retrospectives and continue with our Pride Month celebration, who better to profile than John Waters? Deemed the Pope of Trash and Sultan of Sleaze, Waters’s muse was the Queen of all Drag Queens, the heavenly Divine. Waters’s transgressive cult gems are thought-provoking social satire, presenting caricatures of many facets of society. He’s made some of the most shocking films of all time. Where did it start? What inspired him? Let’s find out…(more…)