John Waters even has a cameo himself as he provides the voice (uncredited) of Ted Bundy. New cast members included Matthew Lillard, Sam Waterson, and Mary Jo Catlett. Mink isn’t the only returning actress from the troupe with Ricki Lake appearing in a main role as Misty Sutphin and Mary Vivian Pierce & Susan Lowe appearing in smaller background roles. She’s so incredible and can literally play any role that Waters has thrown at her over the years.Īlthough he claims he’d stopped doing it by the time he wrote Serial Mom it still definitely feels like he creates certain characters with specific actors in mind to play them as the casting is perfect throughout this.
Is serial mom based on a true story movie#
It’s hilarious and I’m glad Mink was a part of this scene and movie as she’s always been my personal favourite of Waters troupe of actors. The whole thing feels like a throwback to an earlier Waters movie, Desperate Living, in which Peggy Gravel (played by Mink Stole) shouts, “What number are you dialling? You’ve dialled the wrong number!! Tell your mother I hate her”, down the phone. Has there ever been a better or funnier prank call in a movie? Not content with just murdering people she also likes to psychologically torture her neighbours by making obscene prank calls to poor Dottie Hinkle played by John Waters movie regular, Mink Stole. “Is this the c*ck sucker residence? Isn’t this 4215 P*ssy Way? Now, let me check the zip-code: 2-1-2-F*ck You!! Listen to your filthy mouth you f*cking wh*re!!” It was these interests that inspired the movie after all. Waters did actually sit in on real famous court cases, study homicide (the gorier the better), and do non-stop reading of true crime stories so I suppose it is understandable that people thought there was an element of truth to the movie. In recent years John Waters has revealed that people have asked him “Where is Beverly now?”. Her performance in Serial Mom was actually so convincing that people genuinely believed that Beverly and her murders were (or at least based on) real events. This movie made me fall in love with her big time, there was something so captivating about her voice and performances that I’d never noticed before. All I really knew of Kathleen Turner (when my young self first watched this) was that she was the voice of Jessica Rabbit and played a transsexual, Helena Handbasket, in Friends.
Kathleen absolutely nails it and I can’t actually imagine any other actress playing the part of Beverly but during production, many other big names were considered including Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Julie Andrews, and even Roseanne Barr. The premise of the movie is a simple one being that perfect Baltimore housewife Beverly Sutphin (Kathleen Turner) is a secret serial killer. I am now a massive fan of all of his work! Serial Mom was actually one of the first Waters movies I watched and my instant love for it resulted in me going through his back catalogue to see what else I’d missed out on.
But towards the end of the 1990s Waters moved away from the controversial & cult movies and began making more mainstream movies but obviously, they still contained a lot of his unique style and comedy. John Waters movies definitely aren’t for everyone especially when you look at his earlier works such as Pink Flamingos, Desperate Living, and Female Trouble.
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