Multiple Maniacs

A Screenplay

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by John Waters

Type

Screenplays

Subject

One Film > Multiple Maniacs

Keywords

John Waters, screenplay

Publishing date

2025 (October 21, 2025)

Publisher

Picador

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 96 pages
5 x 7 ½ inches (12.5 x 19 cm)

ISBN

978-1-250-37131-7

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Book Presentation:
A very John Waters traveling show, replete with freaks, robbery, murder, sex, blasphemy, and savage shellfish―a lurid, surreal celebration of camp and trash.

The Cavalcade of Perversion is a traveling show run by Lady Divine and a crew of her fellow degenerates. They have to drag suburban housewives into each vile, tasteless performance―only to rob them at gunpoint at the end of each show. When Divine gets bored of the routine and graduates to murdering the attendees one day, it sets her off on a rampage, hunting down her cheating lover, Mr. David, and unleashing a chain of frenzy, a truly blasphemous sex act, and a surreal violation by a giant lobster. Multiple Maniacs is John Waters’ paean to the glories of trash. As Lady Divine chants as she marches proudly into downtown Baltimore at the end of the movie, “I’m a maniac! A maniac that cannot be cured! O Divine, I am Di-vine!”

About the Author:
John Waters is a writer, a film director, an actor, and a visual artist best known for his films, including Hairspray, Pink Flamingos, and Serial Mom. He is the author of the national bestsellers Role Models, Carsick and Mr. Know-It-All. His spoken-word shows This Filthy World, False Negative, and A John Waters Christmas continue to be performed around the world. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

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