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HOLY WATERS: A John Waters Film Festival

January 22nd, 2026 by North Park Theatre



A week of sublime trash!

Join us for HOLY WATERS, a week-long celebration of cult movie legend John Waters ahead of his LIVE appearance in February at Kleinhans Music Hall.

We’ll be screening FOUR subversive classics:

PINK FLAMINGOS – 4K Restoration

FEMALE TROUBLE

POLYESTER in ODORAMA

HAIRSPRAY (1988)

PLEASE NOTE THAT WE ARE NO LONGER SELLING TICKETS TO POLYESTER ONLINE. TICKETS CAN STILL BE PURCHASED AT THE BOX OFFICE

AS OF WEDNESDAY’S SHOW, OUR ODORAMA CARDS ARE FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED

IF YOU ALREADY PURCHASED A TICKET TO POLYESTER ONLINE, YOU CAN PICK YOUR ODORAMA CARD UP AT THE BOX OFFICE

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Buy Tickets

Screening 1/30-2/5!
Get tickets and showtimes HERE.

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Headlining the week is John Waters’s 1981 POLYESTER, which we are screening in ODORAMA!

What is ODORAMA, you ask?

Included in the price of each ticket for POLYESTER is a collectible ODORAMA scratch & sniff card. At certain points during the show, the film will prompt filmgoers to scratch and sniff specific spots on the card, allowing the audience to engage with the film as intended by John Waters during POLYESTER’s original release.

As the poster says, SMELLING IS BELIEVING!

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“It’s like John Waters and camp. A lot of people would be likeβ€”’this is trash’. And he’s like, I know!”
β€” Chappell Roan

“Where do these people come from? Where do they go when the sun goes down? Isn’t there a law or something?”
β€” Rex Reed

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HOLY WATERS

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