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Multiple Maniacs

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Polyester

This was John Waters’s sixth full-length feature film and by the time Polyester came out, John Waters was doing considerably fewer drugs and his movies began to move in a more mainstream direction. Waters managed to sign a minor star like Tab Hunter to the cast and Debbie Harry (Blondie) to do the soundtrack. This…
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Desperate Living

Desperate Living was John Waters’s fifth movie and by his own admission was the first movie he made after quitting drugs (smoking pot to be precise). You really wouldn’t know it though, because it’s just as weird, wonderful, and hilarious as his other films and completely decimates the assumed theory that drugs were the…
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Carnival of Souls

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Daisy Chainsaw

Some people find it difficult to integrate music into a category like cult classics because the word “classic” tends to strike people as meaning “old”. This is sooooo not true here at Cultarama. You see, “Cult” is the keyword, meaning the campy, the fun, the shocking, the intriguing, and anything that isn’t really mainstream…
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Glen or Glenda

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Blood Feast

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Valley of the Dolls

Valley of the Dolls was initially expected to be a top box office smash. It had some decently big names like Susan Hayward and Patti Duke, as well as newcomers Sharon Tate and Barbara Parkins. Built from Jacqueline Susann’s fantastic novel, it centers around three young girls, who among the bright lights of fame,…
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Two Thousand Maniacs

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Basket Case
