Female Trouble (1974)

Name: Female Trouble (1974)
Start: 2026-02-06T21:45:00-05:00
Location: 227 Bridge St, Phoenixville, PA, United States, Pennsylvania 19460

Schedule

Fri, 06 Feb, 2026 at 09:45 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

227 Bridge St, Phoenixville, PA, United States, Pennsylvania 19460 | Phoenixville, PA

This is one of two John Waters movie-appetizers before his live appearance on Saturday, February 7th. Get tickets for "JOHN WATERS - Going to Extremes."
"John Waters' trashterpiece is just as hilarious today as it was almost 50 years ago. Just bring your pearls with you in case you need to clutch them." - Horror Queers Podcast
"Glamour has never been more grotesque than in Female Trouble, which injects the Hollywood melodrama with anarchic decadence. Divine, director John Waters’ larger-than-life muse, engulfs the screen with charisma as Dawn Davenport, the living embodiment of the film’s lurid mantra, “Crime is beauty,” who progresses from a teenage nightmare hell-bent on getting cha-cha heels for Christmas to a fame monster whose egomaniacal impulses land her in the electric chair. Shot in Waters’ native Baltimore on 16 mm, with a cast drawn from his beloved troupe of regulars, the Dreamlanders (including Mink Stole, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Edith Massey, and Cookie Mueller), this film—the director’s favorite of his work with Divine—comes to life through the tinsel-toned vision of production designer Vincent Peranio and costume designer/makeup artist Van Smith. An endlessly quotable fan favorite, Female Trouble offers up perverse pleasures that never fail to satisfy." - Criterion