DYSFUNCTIONAL CEREBRUM

No matter how clearly labelled, it seems like you always grab the wrong brain.

Movie Still from Frankenstein

1931

from Monster Brains

Mr. Waters' Neighborhood

When I saw this in the theater, a couple actually waked out during one scene and never came back. A youngish couple. It's a John Waters flick that got an NC-17 rating - what do you suppose they were expecting?

Tracy Ullman in A Dirty Shame

2004, directed by John Waters

from DVD Beaver

Naked Army

They could buy either shirts or guns. They made their choices.

Barbed Wire Dolls
1975
from Movie Screenshots

Bad Taste

Miss me? I've been house sitting.

Pink Flamingos title card
1972, director John Waters
from The Movie Title Stills Collection

20000 Lieues Sous les Mers

I understand the fish and mermaids, but where does the mime come in?

20000 Lieues Sous les Mers
1907, directed by Georges Méliès
from Amoeblog

The Gorilla

That is one sketchy looking ape right there.

The Gorilla (silent movie)
1927
from gorillamen.com's flickr stream

Too Loo

This one I simply enjoy visually. It doesn't have to make sense. it just looks cool.

A Gumby adventure
1950s
from Stewf's flickr stream

well blow me down

You had to be careful falling in love in those old cartoons. Your arch enemy was apt to pop in and out of drag at the drop of a hat.

"Too Weak to Work"
1943
from Popeye Animators

Sleez Sister

This is one of those movies you used to hear about but could never find a copy of, back before the intarwebs supplied us with endless entertainment. An artifact of the NYC punk scene, a pre-queercore manifesto. These days, you can just grab it on netflix. Well, what's stopping you?

Robin Johnson in Times Square
1980
from Only the Good Die Young, but they borrowed it from Negative Pleasure. (Normally I don't use stuff I see on tumblr pages, but I've been looking for a good screenshot from this movie for a while.)

Shake it, Lu-Lu!

If John Waters hadn't been born, someone would have had to invent him.

From the movie Polyester
1981
from American Buddha

Bike Gang

Generally speaking, when I have a dream like this I get up and take a shower to chase it off.

Joysticks
1983
I had it saved to my computer and I'm not sure where I found it.

Bunnies vs. Wolves

The clothes make the man.

Superjail (animated tv show)
2007, produced by Augenblick Studios
from about.com

fat pink tongues

His later work is fun, but there''s nothing like the sheer perverted joy of John Waters' early films.

Divine in Pink Flamingos
1972
from The Media Center blog

Show Off

Sometimes you just have to make people pay attention.

Lesley Anne Warren in Victor Victoria
1982
from Tom and Lorenzo's Blog

The day Dylan went electric.

Or, at least, a symbolic take on it starring Cate Blanchett. You know, I know no one who liked this movie except me and my dad. Everyone else found it pretentious and overly self-aware. To them I say, so? Thems the times.

"I'm Not There"
2007, directed by Todd Haynes
from tsweden's flickr stream

Truck Turner

What could Scientology give him that simply being Isaac Hayes could not?

"Truck Turner"
1974
from Cinema Strikes Back

Santa vs. Satan

¿Que?

While most commercial adaptations of the Santa Claus legend add a distinctive twist to the traditional story this film is unique in its depiction of an extraterrestrial Santa doing battle with a demon sent to Earth by Lucifer to ruin Christmas—by killing Santa and "making all the children of the Earth do evil."

Mexican Lobby Card
1959
from ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive

Space Amoeba

Well, now I know what I'm gonna be for Halloween.

Yog - Monster from Space (film still)
1971
from Cinema Strikes Back

Chicks Who Love Guns

Now see what she got. That's a Styer Aug. Styer Aug's a bad motherfucker.

Jackie Brown
1997, directed by Quentin Tarantino
from Movie Bad Girls

Barbarella attacked by birds

Yeah, I'd be freaked out, too.

Jane Fonda in a scene from Roger Vadim's motion picture "Barbarella"
1967, photographer Carlo Bavagnoli
from LIFE Magazine