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But Beverly just can’t let anything go, and if she doesn’t give some comeuppance when she feels it’s due, well, again, you don’t want to get on her bad side. It does not take much to get on her bad side.Beverly’s bloodlust begins to boil over and it isn’t long before she escalates her predatory game to include killing.įirst, a schoolteacher is run down next, a former lover of Misty’s is impaled with a fire poker more follow, none of whom did anything so terrible as to deserve death. Dottie’s “crime”? She inadvertently stole Beverly’s parking space one afternoon.

Poor Dottie Hinkle (Mink Stole) has been receiving harassing calls for weeks from an anonymous person, with the caller (Beverly) spewing every vile epithet in the book. Oh, and she is secretly a psychopath who torments her neighbors over the slightest of transgressions. Beverly Sutphin (Kathleen Turner) is the perfect housewife, doting to her husband, Eugene (Sam Waterson), and firm parent to her two children, Misty (Ricki Lake) and Chip (Matthew Lillard). I became a fan when the film hit VHS a few months after it bombed in theaters, and it’s a title I revisit yearly because even after dozens of viewings Waters’ film feels fresh and relevant as ever.The following is based on a “true story”. Making his murderer a housewife whose chipper disposition belies the bloodthirsty monster within tackles many slasher stereotypes with tongue planted firmly in cheek.

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Waters perfectly nails the balance between happy home and horror with Serial Mom (1994), a subversive serial killer satire that plays against expectations.

Tackling serious subjects with gallows humor requires a delicate balance of both. After delivering back-to-back retro musicals, Waters turned to a more serious subject: murder. He softened a bit in the late 80’s and began making pictures with a little more commercial viability, albeit still without major success. His early films were packed with both, usually earning an “X” rating when it came time for general release.

The Hobbit, or A Pox on People Who Bring Babies to.Starring Kathleen Turner, Sam Waterson, Matthew Lillard, Ricki LakeDirected by John WatersDistributed by Scream FactoryJohn Waters’ style is generally understood among serious cinema aficionados, enough so that anyone going into one of his pictures would rightly expect two things: subversion and perversion.

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Movie – The Shawshank Redemption (1994).

The neighbor suspects her, but can’t prove anything. Her husband Eugene (Sam Waterston), daughter Misty (a pre-talk show Ricki Lake), and son Chip (a pre-Scream Matthew Lillard) have no idea this is going on. In secret, though, she has been making harassing phone calls to a neighbor (Waters’ regular Mink Stole) that pissed her off. She’s always perfectly dressed, perfectly coiffed, and tries to maintain all the niceties of a polite society. Kathleen Turner chews the scenery as Beverly Sutphin, a seemingly perfect mother right out of the 1950s. Someday I will do a category for these kinds of films.

There is no reason for this opening statement, other than it probably amused Waters to put it there. Like Fargo, The Guns of Navarone, and a handful of other films, Serial Mom opens with a statement that this movie is based on true events, even though it is a complete work of fiction. Some people think this film is an outrage I thought it was funny as hell. Reactions to this film vary widely, as they do with most of his movies. And this may be the most mainstream of the John Waters’ films that I have seen. This film, for instance, is a dark comedy about a seemingly perfect mom that is a serial killer of people who do not observe all the standards of a polite society. If you’ve never seen any movies from him let’s just say that they are out of the ordinary. Serial Mom might be the first John Waters film I ever saw.