Filmmaker and actor John Waters has joined the cast of “Baltigore: Maryland Horror Anthology.”
Baltigore is a film that features a series of “peculiar” stories, all taking place in Baltimore. The production company is Save-Room Productions, a film collective assembled in 2013 by Tony Savero, a writer, director and editor who has worked in Baltimore and Los Angeles.
Savero is the writer and director of Baltigore, and he’s producing it with Cole Krug. The film is being shot in ‘chapters,’ which will then be released as one feature. A release date has not been disclosed.
Waters is in a segment called Baltigore. According to the website IMDb, he’ll play a character called The Broker. Save-Room recently posted on Instagram an eerie-looking image of Waters as The Broker. It shows him standing, hands clasped, behind the counter of what appears to be a pawn shop, with signs on the wall saying “CASH FOR GOLD” and “NO RETURNS.”
“We are beyond excited to announce that the legendary JOHN WATERS has joined the cast of BALTIGORE: Maryland Horror Anthology,” the team says in an accompanying caption.
Waters declined to talk about the project, referring questions to the production team.
Other cast members include Bill Moseley as The Traveler; Lloyd Kaufman as Old Drunk; Bonnie McFarlane as Lina; Mike Feeney as Jimmy; Robert Kelly as The Cleaner; Zac Amico as Tiny; Ryan Shaner as The Brawler; Chris Walsh as Jonathan Gower; Angie Lantry as Tiff and Lauren Ruth Ward as The Wife.
Other segments are titled “1881,” “A Dead Marriage,” and “Mischief Night.” Plot details have not been disclosed but the project has been in the works for more than a year and the producers had a sneak preview of one ‘chapter’ of the film in Las Vegas.
Waters, 79, is a relatively recent addition to the Baltigore cast, but he’s no stranger to the horror genre. Last year he appeared as villainous dollmaker Wendell Wilkins in Season 3 of the Chucky TV series, which was shown on SYFY, USA and Peacock. He’s been the Groom Reaper on 14 episodes of ‘Til Death Do Us Part; Pete Peters in “Seed of Chucky,” and The Reverend in “Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat” He also provided the introduction to “The Creep,” featuring Nicki Minaj in The Lonely Island’s music video that made its debut on Saturday Night Live in 2011.
Winky the Sea Creature
Baltigore is one of several projects that John Waters fans can look forward to seeing or attending this summer and beyond.
Waters has also been cast in an audio comedy series called StanLand, which will have the first of five episodes released on July 29. He will play Winky the Sea Creature in the series, which is set “in a Narnia-like world overrun by knock-off brands and corporate greed.”
The series is produced by the Sonar Network and Odenkirk-Provissiero Entertainment and written by Mike Sacks and S. G. Wilson. It also features Bobby Moynihan; Rhea Seehorn; Steve Little; Timm Sharp and Jon Hamm as The Dark One. A trailer was presented last month at the Tribeca Film Festival.
On Instagram (@stanlandseries), the producers won’t say whether Waters’ Winky is an angel or a demon.
“All we know is he was hatched from a sea monster’s semen,” they say. “Sort of like if Jeeves the butler were a sea creature magically living on land to serve the kingdom’s resident Dark One. Really, there’s not much more to know about Winky, beyond his very strong Baltimore accent.”
Other projects include:
Mosswood Meltdown: On July 19 and 20, Waters will return as the host of Mosswood Meltdown, an annual punk festival at Mosswood Park in Oakland, California. This year’s featured performers include Devo; Osees; Exploding Hearts; Prison Affair; Bleached; Niis; Diesel Dudes; Gentleman Jesse on the first day, and Bratmobile; Shannon & The Clams; La Lux; Kreayshawn; Twompsax; Naus of Libations; Giuda; L’Trimm and Tina!!! on the second day.
Camp John Waters: From September 5 to 8, Waters will host Camp John Waters (campjohnwaters.com), his “Dreamland Sleepaway Weekend” for superfans in Kent, Connecticut. This year’s camp counselors will be Stephen Dorff, Mink Stole and Amy Locane, and it’s almost sold out.
Screenplay books: In October, Waters and his publisher, Picador, will release three more screenplay books to go along with the three he released in May. The October releases include screenplays for his films “Multiple Maniacs,” “Female Trouble” and “Hairspray.” All will have covers by artist Wayne Hollowell. Hollowell also created covers for the screenplay books that Waters released in May: screenplays for “Pink Flamingos,” “Desperate Living” and “Flamingos Forever,” a never-filmed sequel to “Pink Flamingos.”
Oh how I simply ADORE John Waters!! In the most gushing and personal way you might ever be capable of imagining, this man has remained my personal go-to bastion of aesthetics, taste, fashion and style, for easily the last 50 years!! What a delight it would certainly be to be able to go to this camp John Waters thing and actually BE THERE with HIM and his chosen pedigree of camp councilors Stephen Dorff, Mink Stole and, wow…. even Amy Locane ((who I imagine must’ve JUST finished serving her impressively long prison sentence??)) It all sounds so wonderful, so au Courant, soo very rah-sha-sha!! Like one hell of a classic, rollicking good time at a summer camp for infinitely infantile-y regressed juvenile delinquents and assorted fashionable outcasts, complete with an atmosphere seething with a sea of bawdy, low-class types, likely perpetrating oodles of unheralded, felonious comic and sexually deviant action!! Delightful reading about it here! Thank you for including that tidbit of information, it quite tickled my bad taste backbone!! Everyone reading this… Please DO keep your seatbelts fastened securely, as I sincerely hope that we can all make it through this bumpy, uncertain ride the world is taking us all on at present!! Blessings to one and all!! I hope that we can all get along again some day!!