Product Details

• Actors: Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Sonny Bono, Ruth Brown
• Directors: John Waters
• Writers: John Waters
• Producers: John Waters, David Spencer, James McKenzie, Pat Moran, Rachel Talalay
• Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rated: X (Mature Audiences Only)
• Number of tapes: 4
• Studio: New Line Home Video
• VHS Release Date: July 1, 1997
• Run Time: 376 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 0780618513
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #251,839 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Customer Reviews

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27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WATERS' BEST!!!, January 24, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The John Waters Archives (Pink Flamingos/Polyester/Desperate Living/Hairspray) [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This box set contains John Waters best films. It has Polyester, Desperate Living, Hairspray, and Pink Flamingos. The only thing it lacks is Female Trouble.

16 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars OF COURSE 5 STARS, I'M A BIG FAN, September 27, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The John Waters Archives (Pink Flamingos/Polyester/Desperate Living/Hairspray) [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is a collection of John's greatest hits. Desperate Living is a true Fairy Tale for the open minded, Pollyester is Super, (Divine and Tab Hunter, what a pair) and Hairspray is the video from this collection you can leave out for the kids. All in all a great collection for the John Waters fan.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you can't get the DVDs, get this., January 25, 2002

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D A Beckham (Misery, Missouri) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The John Waters Archives (Pink Flamingos/Polyester/Desperate Living/Hairspray) [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I bought this before the advent of DVDs, and I love every disgusting minute of it. Well, maybe not the birthday party scene in Pink Flamingos, but the rest of it is nothing short of brilliant. This is truly independent cinema. The kind you make with money borrowed from your parents, not from some studio that thinks they're on the edge. You will be offended by these films. Even Hairspray has it's edgy moments. Disgusting zit popping, puking, rats crawling through beautiful reflections of the moon in water. Polyester is Water's first near main-stream movie, with abortion, porn, foot fetishists, beheadings (the scene where a cop non-challantly throws a head into the woods after a car accident kills me). Desperate Living is a grand take on Fairy Tales gone wrong, sort of like Shrek on an adult level (over-simplification). And then there's Pink Flamingos. The Grandmother of filth. Of course, the only children of this genre is Waters' own movies, but Waters is enough. This is a must own set, on VHS or DVD. Female Trouble and Multiple Maniacs would complete this set. Both are also available on VHS finally.