Pitching a tent down by the creek at the back of the Depot Devoid this week, it's MULTIPLE MANIACS! Longtime John Waters fan Matt Fagan drags his brother Ted all the way back to 1970 for this cheap, nasty, black-and-white feature that carefully walks the line between arthouse and outhouse. Starring Divine, David Lochary, Mink Stole, and Mary Vivian Pearce, Multiple Maniacs was Waters' first "talkie," and he still had a lot to learn. But so much of what would eventually define a John Waters movie is already on display here: the criminal outsider heroes, the glamourless ridicule of human sexuality, and Divine's drag persona becoming a literal monster, are all powerful indications of what was yet to come.
