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John Waters (of Pink Flamingos and Hairspray fame) was last in town October of 2008 to perform his This Filthy World one-man show at the Sheldon Concert Hall and Art Galleries. We Are Movie Geeks is thrilled to report that the ‘Prince of Puke’ will be returning to the Sheldon to perform an unforgettable night of holiday mischief with his critically acclaimed one man show, A John Waters Christmas: Holier & Dirtier, on December 3rd beginning at 8pm. Waters pokes fun at the holiday season with adult-appropriate humor, effectively “putting the X in Xmas,” developing a show for the open minded and slightly left-of-center audience.

The cult classic, Baltimore-born filmmaker began his Hollywood success with now Broadway classic, Hairspray, in 1988. Claiming his playful nicknames “Pope of Trash” and “Prince of Puke,” he maintains his image through his filmmaking and his personal presentation. Regarded as a shocking entertainer, John Waters carefully chooses his...

The film-maker talks about hitchhiking, his one-man show in Liverpool – and what his parents thought of Pink Flamingos

William Burroughs called the film director John Waters "the pope of trash". Waters, 67, was born, raised and still lives in Baltimore, Maryland where his close friend Divine, whom he made a star, also grew up. Waters's best-known movies include Pink Flamingos (in which Divine ate dog faeces), Polyester, Hairspray, Cry-Baby and Serial Mom. He is also a writer, artist and art collector and will perform his one-man show, This Filthy World – about film, his fascination with true crime, exploitation films and "fashion lunacy" – at this year's Homotopia arts festival in Liverpool. Waters is writing a book about hitchhiking across America last year.

How was the road trip?

I hitchhiked from my front door in Baltimore to my flat in San Francisco. I last hitchhiked when I was 16. It's a bit different when you're 66. Before,...

The 11th annual Lausanne Underground Film Festival is packed to the gills with outrageous cinema from all over the world, featuring several filmmaker retrospectives and movies screening in competition at several locations on Oct. 17-21.

The big guest of honor this year is the legendary John Waters, who will be attending the fest with several of his own classics, such as Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble and Desperate Living, as well as showing some of his favorite B-movie inspirations, such as William Girdler’s blaxploitation demonic possession flick Abby, Armando Bo’s Argentinian sexploitation Fuego, Robinson Devor’s controversial bestiality doc Zoo and more. Plus, Waters will perform his acclaimed “This Filthy World” one-man show.

Other Luff special guests include Christoph Schlingensief, the confrontational German filmmaker of 100 Years of Adolf Hitler, The German Chainsaw Massacre, The 120 Days of Bottrop and more; Richard Stanley, the South African genre filmmaker of the cult...

By Michael Juvinall, MoreHorror.com

The Days of the Dead horror convention invaded Indianapolis, Indiana this past weekend for three days of pure madness, mayhem, and a bloody great time! Celebrities, vendors, and all manner of monsters were unleashed upon the unsuspecting attendees at this weekend’s show.

The Dotd organizers, Adolfo Dorta, Ricardo Lara, and Bill Philputt deserve a round of applause for putting on one hell of a show this year. It was a well-organized and well executed experience from top to bottom, in the midst of a 106 degree heat wave happening outside.

Highlights of the show included an awesome lineup of celebrity guests featuring the inimitable John Waters, “The Pope of Trash”, the actor, writer, and director known for his shocking films such as Multiple Maniacs, Pink Flamingo’s, and Hairspray, performing his standup show “This Filthy World” and signing autographs. Other celebrities on hand posing for...

The 9th annual Calgary Underground Film Festival will run on April 16-22 at the Globe Cinema with a mix of outrageous comedies, documentaries about controversial personalities, cult flicks and some frank depictions of sexuality.

The fest launches on the 16th with the new comedy by Bobcat Goldthwait, God Bless America, in which Joel Murray stars as a terminally ill man who decides to kill as many stupid people he can can before he perishes himself. Also on the comedic front are Rick Alverson’s The Comedy starring TV’s Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareham as troublemaking urban hipsters; and Mikkel Nørgaard Klovn (Clown) about a Danish loser who takes a young boy on a brothel tour.

On the cult film front are Jack Perez’s Some Guy Who Kills People starring Kevin Corrigan in the eponymous role; Alex Ross Perry‘s abusive sibling flick The Color Wheel; the brutal Father...

Infamous director John Waters is headed to Australia this October for his one-man show "This Filthy World," in his first ever national tour, and to curate a film festival, "Double Features from Hell." Waters described "This Filthy World" as "a self-help group for people who don't need self-help. It's to try to make you feel good about being nuts, which I think is important these days," whatever that means. The ...

UCLA John Waters

Whether you love John Waters or hate his movies, the 64-year-old director can simultaneously charm and assail the finer sensibilities of a live audience with his soothing patter about ephemera, walking through prison with a drag queen and why terrorists inevitably get caught (because they’re bad dressers).

Such was the case at UCLA’s Spoken Word Series as Waters knocked out a double header on the eve of the Academy Awards. On Tuesday, he privately screened...

The Hairspray and Pink Flamingos director is no stranger to irony. But would you buy a book of Role Models from the Pope of Bad Taste?

What is the ultimate John Waters anecdote? A master of irony, a man renowned for his outrageous, scandalous wit, most conversations with the film-maker, artist and raconteur turn up stories of dark bars in Baltimore, cult criminals and obscure dangerous movie stars. My favourite story, though, concerns a chicken.

The animal featured in Waters's 1972 classic, Pink Flamingos. Branded by Variety as "surely the most vile, stupid, repulsive film ever made", it's remembered by most for the scene in which Divine eats dog faeces. But that was not even the film's most controversial shot. No, there was also a sex scene in which a chicken is both molested and killed on camera. Let Waters take up the story: "The son is fucking Cookie. The chicken's in the middle.

John Waters, cult filmmaker, writer and shock auteur supremo is coming to Australia in March to perform his one man show ‘This Filthy World'. ‘This Filthy World', described as a vaudeville act, celebrates the film career and obsessional tastes of the man William Burroughs once called ‘The Pope of Trash'. Focusing on Mr Waters' early negative artistic influences and his fascination with true crime, exploitation films, fashion lunacy and the extremes of the contemporary art world, this devious monologue elevates all that is trashy in life. Mr Waters says that he has always wanted to sell out, but the problem was nobody wanted to buy him.

The first-ever Fangoria Trinity Of Terrors has officially taken over the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, becoming The Place you want to spend your Halloween! Its 1:31am Vegas time as I type this and the party is continuing downstairs as Halloween has officially arrived in the city of Sin.

Opening night was a blast here, packed with film screenings, celebrity guests (including some unannounced surprises), horror, freaks, and rock. And to top it off, we're broadcasting the demonic debauchery Live!

Check out this clip from last night's Live webcast featuring John Kassir doing a little bit of The Crypt Keeper!

As the final screening of the night comes to a close with Black Devil Doll wrapping up in the Brenden Theatres, we're already prepping for the show floor to re-open at 10am. Tickets will be available at the door for only $20 beginning at 8:30am, and here's what horrors lie in-store for Halloween.

The inaugural Fangoria Trinity Of Terrors roars into The Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas next weekend (October 30-November 1), and for those looking to plot out their weekend, we've got your first-look at the programming schedule for the Trinity.

With a massive list of celebrity guests, film screenings and premieres, musical performances, a VIP Party, Costume Contest, Tattoo Contest, Fango Foto Features, Autograph Sessions, and so much more - we want you to know the lay of the land so that you don't miss a single thing.

If you don't have your tickets for our massive Halloween Weekend yet, there is still time to pre-order online through http://www.trinityofterrors.com and through Vegas.com. You may also order tickets from Vegas.com by phone - 1-888-las-vegas (527-8342) 24 hours a day. Tickets Will Not Be Mailed - You may pick them up at the Trinity registration booth (next to...

The Trinity of Terrors hosted by Fangoria will kick-off during this Halloween Weekend! The Trinity movie and music festival will take place in Las Vegas and start Friday October 30 with several movie premieres. Some of the screenings include House of the Devil, Smash Cut, Sea of Dust and several more listed below. If you are a fan of horror, and in Vegas on the 30th then check out the celebration throughout the Halloween weekend. Have a look at the full event schedule inside with a list of some of the actors and crew members in attendance i.e. Ken Foree (Dawn of the Dead), Chris Jericho (Albino Farm), Tom Atkins (The Fog), Jake Kennedy(Penance), and many, many more!

Halloween Weekend

Friday, October 30-sunday November 1

Friday, October 30

8:30am Registration opens

4pm Event doors open

4:30pm Opening Greeting & Future Fears Film Preview- Brenden Theaters #2

4:30pm Sea Of Dust...

When you think of film festivals, Copenhagen isn't necessarily the first place that comes to mind, but from April 16-26, 2009, it's the place to be for Cph:pix. Along with John Waters performing his stand-up show "This Filthy World - Dirtier & Filthier" on April 24, the fest will present over 170 films including No Right Turn, about which writer/director David Noel Bourke recently dropped us a line.

No Right Turn is generating quite a bit of buzz with praise from critics ranging from "a dark and witty neo fairytale" to "something utterly unique" to "a rare 10/10". What's it about? Here's a synopsis from the film's official site:

Nina is the voluptuously alluring girlfriend of Johnny, a charming but delusional crook. To escape from her weary life, she casually sleeps with an old friend, Teddy, but is fed up with her current lifestyle, especially the drunken dreams of Johnny. One night after an argument with Johnny,...

TORONTO -- Emerging from a mock confessional booth on a purple-draped stage where flower arrangements and heaps of garbage set a mood of sweet decay, John Waters has come not only to pine for vanished decadence but to dream up new transgressions for a world with few remaining taboos. He's doing it for the children -- the college kids, to be precise, who have come to see the entertaining one-man show captured in this performance documentary.

The genre, and the fact that Waters isn't a star on the stand-up circuit, suggests a niche appeal at the boxoffice, but fans will be very pleased. The endearingly louche filmmaker might even win the love of some viewers who can't be bothered with his button-pushing features.

Directed by Curb Your Enthusiasm's Jeff Garlin, the high-def pic is shot and edited conventionally, which suits it fine. Waters' anecdotes are so colorful, conjuring such outrageous imagery, that it's a relief the filmmakers aren't trying to compete.

There's the image, for instance, of this man-of-the-world as a young child who counts Captain Hook among his top three heroes: Lacking the villain's curly locks, he tapes a mass of his father's ties to his head, sticks a coat hanger out one sleeve and scares off the family housekeeper for good.

Or of the ceremony he staged when protege Traci Lords decided to tie the knot, and he needed to be baptized to qualify for a church wedding. At a stolen altar, with a clergy license obtained for Waters by Johnny Depp's people, The Pope of Trash cleansed the porn legend's sins and (from the sound of it) threw in a little therapy for free.

That episode is one of the monologue's occasional hints that Waters is a good deal less jaded than some would think. Cracks in his ironic facade appear momentarily when a subject like capital punishment comes up, though that doesn't keep him from getting some laughs. And while his suggestions for would-be-rebel teens are deliberately silly, they seem to spring from a genuine sympathy for today's youth, for whom garden-variety transgressions would hardly raise a parent's eyebrow.

His most inspired cultural commentary comes, not surprisingly, on the subject of art. Drawing connections between art house cinema and schlockmeister sensationalists like Kroger Babb, he imagines how university film programs might again become something special.

None of which is to suggest that This Filthy World is an agenda-driven film. While ostensibly a micro-memoir touching on every point in Waters' bad-taste oeuvre (paying particular attention, naturally, to his late friend Divine), he'd rather you call it vaudeville than a lecture. The term doesn't quite fit -- he hasn't yet booked the freaks and low-rent strippers to open for him onstage, and the monologue as it is dips in rare moments to the feel of straightforward stand-up comedy -- but even if he's never able to mount a full-scale return to the happy depravity of his youth, Waters is one of bad behavior's most likable champions.

THIS FILTHY WORLD

Filthy World Llc./Red Envelope Entertainment

Credits:

Director: Jeff Garlin

Screenwriter: John Waters

Producers: Michele Armour, Jeff Garlin

Executive producer: Ted Sarandos

Director of photography: Dan Shulman

Production designer: Vince Peranio

Editor: Rob Naylor

Performer: John Waters

No MPAA rating

Running time -- 90 minutes...