Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Age rating
- 18
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on frights — not a wind-down.
The story
The Cavalcade of Perversion, a traveling freak show, acts as a front for Divine, who is out for blood after discovering her lover's affair.
- jealousy
- rape
- fetishism
- dark comedy
- church
- cannibal
- blasphemy
- underground film
- drag
- freak show
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Divine
Lady Divine
David Lochary
Mr. David
Mary Vivian Pearce
Bonnie / Cavalcade Patron
Mink Stole
Mink / Cavalcade Patron
- Cookie Mueller — Cookie Divine / Cavalcade Patron
- Edith Massey — Edith / Virgin Mary
- Susan Lowe — Cavalcade Pervert
- Rick Morrow — Ricky
- Howard Gruber — Gilbert
- Paul Swift — Steve (Cookie's Boyfriend)
- Vincent Peranio — Freak
- Jim Thompson — Freak
- Dee Vitolo — Freak
- Ed Peranio — Freak
- Bob Skidmore — Cavalcade Patron
- Directed
- John Waters
- Written
- John Waters
Production
- Rating
- 6.3 / 10 · 127 ratings
- Studio
- Dreamland
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
