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John Watters Biography on the Bottom
Growing
up
in
Baltimore
in
the
50s
Waters
was
not
like
other
children;
he
was
obsessed
by
violence
and
gore
both
real
and
on
the
screen.
With
his
weird
counter-culture
friends
acting
he
began
making
silent
8mm
and
16mm
films
in
the
mid
60s;
he
screened
these
in
rented
Baltimore
church
halls
to
underground
audiences
drawn
by
word-of-mouth
and
street
leafleting
campaigns.
As
his
film-making
grew
more
polished
and
his
subject
matter
more
shocking
his
audiences
grew
bigger
and
his
write-ups
in
the
Baltimore
papers
more
outraged.
By
the
early
70s
he
was
making
features
which
he
managed
to
get
shown
in
midnight
screenings
in
art
cinemas
by
sheer
perseverance.
Success
came
when
Pink
Flamingos
(1972)
-
a
deliberate
exercise
in
ultra-bad
taste
-
took
off
in
1973;
helped
no
doubt
by
lead
actor
'Divine'
infamous
dog-shit
eating
scene.