For his first studio picture, filth maestro 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 (David Samson, caught in flagrante with secretary Mink Stole), a parasitic mother (Joni Ruth White), and a pair of delinquent children (Mary Garlington and Ken King), the long-suffering Francine turns to best friend Cuddles (Waters stalwart Edith Massey) and then the bottle as her life falls apart—until deliverance appears in the form of a hunk named Todd Tomorrow (vintage heartthrob Tab Hunter). Originally released with all-too-real Odorama™ technology that enabled viewers to scratch and sniff along with Francine (“Smelling is believing,” boasted the posters), POLYESTER is one of Waters’ most hilarious inventions, replete with stomach-churning sights, sadistic nuns, AA meetings, and foot stomping galore..
Previously screened in for Sicks by John Waters and in September 2019 with in person introductions by John Waters