As said above he was to make the Christmas film Fruitcake until the failure of A Dirty Shame.

What Could Have Been: John has a few examples of planned movies that never happened:.

Mikels, as he narrates in a documentary about the man called The Wild World of Ted V.

In an episode of Feud, he got the chance to play William Castle, another of his idols.

He interviewed Lewis and Russ Meyer, another favorite of his, for his first autobiography, Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste.

A fan of the Child's Play movies, he got to be a victim of Chucky in Seed of Chucky.

A fan of the works of Herschell Gordon Lewis, especially Blood Feast.

Divine, Mink Stole, Mary Vivian Pearce, David Lochary, and Edith Massey are some of the most prominent. Production Posse: In 60s and 70s Baltimore, Waters was at the center of a group of countercultural oddballs, outcasts, and petty criminals called the Dreamlanders who acted in and worked on his films.

Popularity Polynomial: He's experienced a surge in popularity, due to a growing LGBTQ movement, the success of the Hairspray musical and film, his book Carsick, about him hitchhiking across the country and an episode of RuPaul's Drag Race centered around his movies.

To name one, Multiple Maniacs was made on $5000 it would have cost more, except a friend of his shoplifted the film stock.

Also Multiple Maniacs would only earn a DVD release in 2016 after Waters sorted the one license problem.

Keep Circulating the Tapes: John's 1st feature film, Mondo Trasho, is the only one of his feature films not to have a DVD release due to the uses of unlicensed music used throughout the film.

On the episode's commentary he notes what an odd experience it was to voice a character whose name was John, who looked like him, and was gay, but wasn't actually him.

The Danza: He voiced the Camp Gay antique dealer John in 'Homer's Phobia'.

It would take another 18 years before he'd get the chance to direct again with an adaptation of his first novel, Liarmouth.

Creator Killer: His last film, A Dirty Shame, was such a box office bomb that it prevented him from making more films including a Christmas film called Fruitcake.

Creator Backlash: John felt that Mondo Trasho should have been a 20 minute short film instead of a 90 minute feature.

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). 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.

Bury Your Art: Waters refuses to release his first three films in any format, and they have not appeared since their original showings.

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