

A celluloid atrocity!
The Cavalcade of Perversion, a traveling freak show, acts as a front for Divine, who is out for blood after discovering her lover's affair.
- Sexual violence
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Bleak, unpretentious, relentless and ironic.
- warmbleak
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
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“Does the irony keep it from meaning anything?”
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“Is this John Waters's best work?”
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“Does the pace leave no room to feel anything?”
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Cast
- DivineLady Divine
- David LocharyMr. David
- Mary Vivian PearceBonnie / Cavalcade Patron
- Mink StoleMink / Cavalcade Patron
- Cookie MuellerCookie Divine / Cavalcade Patron
- Edith MasseyEdith / Virgin Mary
- Susan LoweCavalcade Pervert
- Rick MorrowRicky
- Howard GruberGilbert
- Paul SwiftSteve (Cookie's Boyfriend)
Crew
- John WatersDirector
- John WatersWriter
- John WatersDirector of Photography
- John WatersOriginal Music Composer
- John WatersEditor
- John WatersProducer
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Pairings
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Forbidden Zone 198266% alikeBoth unpretentious, comic, plot-driven.
The Doom Generation 199564% alikeBoth bleak, relentless, unpretentious.
Desperate Living 197763% alikeBoth unpretentious, comic, bleak.
Female Trouble 197660% alikeBoth comic, relentless, ironic.
Cecil B. Demented 200058% alikeBoth ironic, comic, relentless.
Cruelty Squad 202166% alikeGame · Both bleak, unpretentious, plot-driven.
Heathers 201863% alikeTelevision · Both comic.
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