History Creator / JohnWaters

* LostForever: While not ''lost'' in the same way as, say, ''London After Midnight'', Waters refuses to release his first three movies in any format, and they have not appeared since their original showings. This may be in part due to their presentation; ''Roman Candles'', for example, consists of three separate reels of footage shown on three screens simultaneously, without sound, as a separate audio recording plays. This isn't something you can replicate on a DVD player (he did have ''Roman Candles'' transferred to videotape in the 1980s, using a 4-panel split screen, with one screen left blank, which he has shown at festival and academic screenings).

Waters's films all [[CreatorProvincialism take place in Baltimore]], are [[RefugeInAudacity packed with as much sleaze as possible]], and [[CrossesTheLineTwice celebrate trashy Americana]], with [[{{Camp}} awful fashion and gaudy designs]] featured prominently. He also has a [[ProductionPosse regular group of actors]], chief among them the late [[{{DragQueen}} drag performer]] Divine.

Waters' films all [[CreatorProvincialism take place in Baltimore]], are [[RefugeInAudacity packed with as much sleaze as possible]], and [[CrossesTheLineTwice celebrate trashy Americana]], with [[{{Camp}} awful fashion and gaudy designs]] featured prominently. He also has a [[ProductionPosse regular group of actors]], chief among them the late [[{{DragQueen}} drag performer]] Divine.

[[CreatorProvincialism His films all take place in Baltimore]], [[RefugeInAudacity and are packed with as much sleaze as possible.]] [[CrossesTheLineTwice They celebrate trashy Americana,]] with [[{{Camp}} awful fashion and gaudy designs]] featured prominently. [[ProductionPosse He has a regular group of actors]], chief among them the late [[{{DragQueen}} drag performer]] Divine.

John Waters (born April 22, 1946) is an American director, producer, actor, screenwriter, and owner of a [[GoodHairEvilHair badass pencil moustache]]. He spent much of the '70s and '80s making low-budget exploitation films, such as ''Film/PinkFlamingos'' (1972) and ''Female Trouble'' (1974), before achieving relative mainstream acceptance with ''Film/{{Hairspray}}'' in 1988.

* ''Film/{{Polyester}}''(1981)

'''John Waters''' (April 22, 1946-) is an American director, actor, writer, and owner of a [[GoodHairEvilHair badass pencil moustache]]. He spent much of the 70s-80s making low budget exploitation films, such as ''Film/PinkFlamingos'' and ''Female Trouble''. He achieved relative mainstream acceptance with ''Film/{{Hairspray}}'', in 1988.

* ''Film/HagInABlackLeatherJacket''
* ''Film/RomanCandles''
* ''Film/EatYourMakeup''
* ''Film/MondoTrasho''
* ''Film/TheDianeLinkletterStory''
* ''Film/MultipleManiacs''
* ''Film/PinkFlamingos''
* ''Film/FemaleTrouble''
* ''Film/DesperateLiving''
* ''Film/{{Polyester}}''
* ''Film/{{Hairspray}}''
* ''Film/CryBaby''
* ''Film/SerialMom''
* ''{{Film/Pecker}}''
* ''Film/CecilBDemented''
* ''Film/ADirtyShame''

[[caption-width-right:317:Not Creator/SteveBuscemi.]]

+ {{Baltimore}}, Creator/TennesseeWilliams, KennethAnger, Jean Genet, PierPaoloPasolini, DianeArbus, Howdy Doody, Rei Kawakubo, Johnny Mathis, Larry Clark, Music/LittleRichard, Russ Meyer, IngmarBergman, Creator/MarquisDeSade ]

* NoAnimalsWereHarmed: Averted. Several chickens are decapitated in ''Mondo Trasho'', and a chicken is raped and crushed to death in ''Pink Flamingos''.

* LostForever: While not ''lost'' in the same way as, say, ''London After Midnight'', Waters refuses to release his first three movies in any format, and they have not appeared since their original showings. This may be in part due to their presentation; ''Eat Your Makeup'', for example, consists of three separate reels of footage shown on three screens simultaneously, without sound, as a separate audio recording plays. This isn't something you can replicate on a DVD player.

+ {{Baltimore}}, Creator/TennesseeWilliams, KennethAnger, Jean Genet, PierPaoloPasolini, DianeArbus, Howdy Doody, Rei Kawakubo, Johnny Mathis, Larry Clark, LittleRichard, Russ Meyer, IngmarBergman, Creator/MarquisDeSade ]

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* DoNotDoThisCoolThing: Not his films, but he [[ParodiedTrope mercilessly parodied]] this in a theater warning which featured himself. He's supposed to tell the audience that smoking is restricted in the theater, but he does so by intentionally sending out mixed signals, like happily puffing on a cigarette himself and questioning the validity of the rule.

* InsultBackfire: A long-delayed example, but it counts. Rex Reed had hated ''Female Trouble'', to the point that in his review he had asked, "Where do these people come from? Where do they go when the sun goes down? Isn't there a law or something?" When ''Female Trouble'' was released on [=DVD=], this quote was on the front of its box.

!!! "Tasteful tropes about bad taste":

* IdenticalStranger: He looks so similar to Creator/SteveBuscemi that he once put a picture of Buscemi on his Christmas cards to see if anyone would notice.

+ {{Baltimore}}, Creator/TennesseeWilliams, KennethAnger, Jean Genet, PierPaoloPasolini, DianeArbus, Howdy Doody, Rei Kawakubo, Johnny Mathis, Larry Clark, LittleRichard, Russ Meyer, IngmarBergman, Creator/MarquisdeSade ]

* StylisticSuck: His movies are intentionally trashy

[[CreatorProvincialism His films all take place in Baltimore]], and are packed with as much sleaze as possible. They celebrate trashy Americana, with [[{{Camp}} awful fashion and gaudy designs]] featured prominently. [[ProductionPosse He has a regular group of actors]], chief among them the late [[{{DragQueen}} drag performer]] Divine.

+ {{Baltimore}}, TennesseeWilliams, KennethAnger, Jean Genet, PierPaoloPasolini, DianeArbus, Howdy Doody, Rei Kawakubo, Johnny Mathis, Larry Clark, LittleRichard, Russ Meyer, IngmarBergman, MarquisdeSade ]

* LostForever: While not ''lost'' in the same way as, say, ''London After Midnight'', Waters refuses to release his first three movies in any format, and they have not appeared since their original showings.

Director, actor, writer, and owner of a [[GoodHairEvilHair badass pencil moustache]]. He spent much of the 70s-80s making low budget exploitation films, such as ''Film/PinkFlamingos'' and ''Female Trouble''. He achieved relative mainstream acceptance with ''Film/{{Hairspray}}'', in 1988.

* BlackComedyRape: In ''Multiple Maniacs,'' Lady Divine is raped by a giant lobster called Lobstora.

* ''Film/{{Cry-Baby}}''

* IdenticalStranger: He looks so similar to Steve Buscemi that he once put a picture of Buscemi on his Christmas cards to see if anyone would notice.