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“Polyester” in ODORAMA – John Waters Film Fest
A week of sublime trash!
Join us for HOLY WATERS, a week-long celebration of John Waters ahead of his LIVE appearance in February at Kleinhans Music Hall.
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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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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“It’s like John Waters and camp. A lot of people would be like—’this is trash’. And he’s like, I know!”
— Chappell Roan
“Where do these people come from? Where do they go when the sun goes down? Isn’t there a law or something?”
— Rex Reed
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Screening 1/30-2/5!
Get tickets HERE.
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For his first studio picture, filth maestro John Waters took advantage of his biggest budget yet to allow his muse Divine to sink his teeth into a role unlike any he had played before: Baltimore housewife Francine Fishpaw, a heroine worthy of a Douglas Sirk melodrama.
Blessed with a keen sense of smell and cursed with a philandering pornographer husband, a parasitic mother, and a pair of delinquent children, the long-suffering Francine turns to the bottle as her life falls apart—until deliverance appears in the form of a hunk named Todd Tomorrow (vintage heartthrob Tab Hunter).
One of Waters’ most hilarious inventions, Polyester is replete with stomach-churning smells, sadistic nuns, AA meetings, and foot stomping galore.
