Concrete Playground

What's a little deviance amongst friends?

Whether he's directing, writing or talking in front of a crowd, there is one thing that John Waters does best, and that is to bring the filthier habits of humans to light with a spray of panache and playfulness. Come October and the dapper Pope of Trash shall grace the Sydney Opera House with his personal selection of films that will extract all sorts of late night juices.

Organised into four categories titled 'Shock', 'Terror', 'Goddess' and 'Sex', these double features will be presented by Waters, whose curatorial mantra is to screen "radically intelligent and disturbing movies that will push [Australian audiences] closer to the edge of cinema insanity". Some of these films - such as the 'Shock' duo, Antichrist and Irreversible - are famous for their unrelenting destruction of humanity, but Waters has also selected films that celebrate the perverse in a positive light. And, for lovers of camp and the surprise hilarity of a bad film, the 'Goddess' pairing of Boom! (1968) and Fuego (1969) should finish you off with a smile.

Take this opportunity to be exposed to thrilling madness, all while clutched against the bosom beneath the world's most famous pencil moustache.