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Director, actor, writer, and owner of a [[Good Hair, Evil Hair|badass pencil moustache]]. He spent much of the 70s-80s making low budget exploitation films, such as ''[[Pink Flamingos]]'' and ''Female Trouble''. He achieved relative mainstream acceptance with ''[[Hairspray]]'', in 1988.
 
[[Creator Provincialism|His films all take place in Baltimore]], and are packed with as much sleaze as possible. They celebrate trashy Americana, with [[Camp|awful fashion and gaudy designs]] featured prominently. He has a regular group of actors, chief among them the late [[Drag Queen|drag performer]] Divine.
 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnpofBtijF8 Likes a good smoke.]
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* [[Ascended Fanboy]]: A fan of the works of Herschell Gordon Lewis, especially ''[[Blood Feast]]'', the sequel to which he got a part in.
* [[Camp]]
* [[Camp Gay]]/[[StraightInvisible Gayto Gaydar]]: One of the few people who manages to somehow embody both aspects at once.
* [[Cloudcuckooland]]: Baltimore and it's suburbs.
* [[Creator Provincialism]]: All of his movies are set in Baltimore.