Mink Stole has bloodlust after seeing Divine stab Mary Vivian Pearce to death. Stole plays a religious whore—a woman who puts churchgoers through the Stations of the Cross, you know, erotically—and she’s decked out in Gloria Swanson glamour. “Isn’t there anybody else we could do it on?” she asks, her caterpillar-thick eyelashes fluttering as she eyes Divine’s knife. “There are hundreds of people I have in my fantasies... Ann-Margret, Tricia Nixon, Shirley Temple, THE POPE!”
This is John Waters’Multiple Maniacs, a movie filmed two years before Divine (AKA Harris Glenn Milstead) ate dogshit onscreen for the director’s 1972 trash classic Pink Flamingos. But Multiple Maniacs—this disgusting, wonderful piece of the director’s juvenilia—has never seen a theatrical release, which it’s finally getting with a new restoration. This film is a thing of wonder and revulsion, much like the late, great Divine.