To name one, Multiple Maniacs was made on $5000 it would have cost more, except a friend of his shoplifted the film stock.

Also Multiple Maniacs would only earn a DVD release in 2016 after Waters sorted the one license problem.

Keep Circulating the Tapes: John's 1st feature film, Mondo Trasho, is the only one of his feature films not to have a DVD release due to the uses of unlicensed music used throughout the film.On the episode's commentary he notes what an odd experience it was to voice a character whose name was John, who looked like him, and was gay, but wasn't actually him.The Danza: He voiced the Camp Gay antique dealer John in 'Homer's Phobia'.

It would take another 18 years before he'd get the chance to direct again with an adaptation of his first novel, Liarmouth. Creator Killer: His last film, A Dirty Shame, was such a box office bomb that it prevented him from making more films including a Christmas film called Fruitcake.Creator Backlash: John felt that Mondo Trasho should have been a 20 minute short film instead of a 90 minute feature.This isn't something you can replicate on a DVD player (he did have Roman Candles transferred to videotape in the 1980s, using a 4-panel split screen, with one screen left blank, which he has shown at festival and academic screenings). This may be in part due to their presentation Roman Candles, for example, consists of three separate reels of footage shown on three screens simultaneously, without sound, as a separate audio recording plays. Bury Your Art: Waters refuses to release his first three films in any format, and they have not appeared since their original showings.

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