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And then sell them, his pencil-thin mustache twisting in a good-humored smirk. John Waters’s response to boxes - the kind in which we tend to place others and ourselves - is to vomit on them. Waters assembles many regulars from previous films – Mink Stole, Mary Vivian Pearce, Traci Lords, Patty Hearst and now mega-famous talkshow host Ricki Lake to whom Waters gave her her first break.Serial Mom is available in a new Blu-ray edition from Shout Factory. Kathleen Turner gets into the role with glee – although it is one of Turner’s more arch readings and she hardly convinces when the part requires her to be a regular everyday housewife. The subsequent Miss Meadows (2014) with Katie Holmes as a perfectly mannered vigilante schoolteacher was a far more biting and intelligent treatment of the same themes that Waters aims for here but strikes far too broadly. There are a few moments when the film does come to life with the old John Waters maniacal gleam – the image of Kathleen Turner trying to shake one victim’s liver off a poker a scene where she torches Justin Whalin while an all-girl grunge group called The Camel Tips play and the audience applaud the bashing in of one woman’s head with a joint of meat while she watches Annie (1982) on video.
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Serial Mom is further undone by an unfocused script – the reason for Kathleen Turner’s killings seems to be taken for granted, construed as no more than series of sarcastic attacks on the petty-minded. (Waters once made the claim that he regarded going to criminal trials as a spectator sport, as a perverse inversion of Hollywood celebrity – indeed, these days he casts former abductee/terrorist Patty Hearst in most of his films). madness was even a morbid glimmer in anybody’s eye. Which is a shame as Waters has been mining the theme of the media glorification of criminals and mass murderers long before O.J. Unfortunately, by the time that Serial Mom arrived on the scene, the satiric theme of the media obsession with serial killers had been done by Natural Born Killers (1994) and Waters’ rehash of it comes across surprisingly dull. There is not even the grotesque outrages of Divine eating doggy poo to give the film a perverse kick. Rarely does any of it rise above the feeling of been-there-before familiarity in the ground it is treading. Serial Mom reads like warmed over John Waters themes – the gleeful rebellion against all that is considered good taste, the glorification of criminal celebrity. Demented (2000) and the quasi-fantastical A Dirty Shame (2004) – seem more like broad farce than they ever dig with the offensive brilliance that Waters early films did. Certainly, a number of Waters’ films subsequent to Serial Mom – such as Pecker (1998), Cecil B. On the other hand, his mainstream films are never less than always watchable – both Hairspray (1987) and Cry-Baby (1990) in particular are a ball. More so though,Waters has left behind much of the outrageous assaults on good taste that made films like Pink Flamingos (1972) and Female Trouble (1974) into cult favourites.
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One doesn’t necessarily agree – these days Waters certainly works with professional production crews and star names like Debbie Harry, Johnny Depp, Melanie Griffith, Christina Ricci, Kathleen Turner and Sam Waterston. There are those who say that everything John Waters has done since about Polyester (1981) has been a commercial sell-out.