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Watch as the life of a leader of a menacing group of deviants, explodes in a spectacle of debauchery. Accidentally filmed from beginning to end, on purpose.Watch as the life of a leader of a menacing group of deviants, explodes in a spectacle of debauchery. Accidentally filmed from beginning to end, on purpose.Watch as the life of a leader of a menacing group of deviants, explodes in a spectacle of debauchery. Accidentally filmed from beginning to end, on purpose.
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- TriviaThe giant lobster was built in one and a half weeks by cast member Vincent Peranio, who would go on to a career as a film production designer. It cost about thirty-seven dollars to make.
- GoofsWhen Divine approaches a car with 2 lovers smooching in it, she is armed with a sledgehammer she did not have in previous shots. She then attempts to pull the lovers out of the car without success, though in the immediately following shot of her bashing the car, it's empty and the lovers have vanished.
- Crazy creditsAnd George Figgs as Jesus Christ
- Alternate versionsThe film was unreleased in the UK until the 1990 Castle video release, and this was then cut by almost 5 minutes by the BBFC to remove a closeup of a man's penis and to heavily edit a scene where rosary beads are inserted into Divine's rectum.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Divine Waters (1985)
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A Lobster Monstre makes it all worthwhile
This film suffers from what a lot of low-budget-inexperienced-director films suffer from: long intervals in which nothing happens in an attempt to get to the better parts of the movie. This one has it is spades, which makes it hard to sit through to get to the highlights. But the high points are some of the most inspired of any John Water's flick: the surreal appearance of "The Emperor of Prague," played by small boy in full monarch regalia who guides Lady Divine, and the completely unsolicited cameo of "Lobstora," the enormous lobster prop who, like nearly everybody in the early films, has its way with Divine. I found these scenes far more interesting than the film as a whole, despite the (possibly unintentional) social commentary of the opening sequence. Here, a crowd of "straights" visit the Carnival of Perversions and witness horrors ranging from the "Puke Eater" to the "Homosexuals." Each attraction is viewed with similar disgust from the suburbanites, yet they make no effort to leave the show, which seems to call to Water's fascination with the American public's fascination with the fringe of society.
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- Nov 14, 1998
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- Множественные маньяки
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- $5,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $33,036
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $9,814
- Aug 7, 2016
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- $39,025
- Runtime1 hour 31 minutes
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- 1.66 : 1
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