These are the weirdest, most transgressive movie musicals ever made
They sing! They dance! They call God the F-slur!
They’re identical twins who are definitely straight and who under absolutely no circumstances want to bone. They’re the stars of Dicks: The Musical, an acid-brained, NSFW riff on The Parent Trap from Borat director Larry Charles, who apparently will stop at nothing to make the wildest new midnight movie on the scene.
A crudely made, sophomoric musical extravaganza, Dicks: The Musical feels like the answer to an age-old question: “What if Rodgers and Hammerstein got really high and adapted Freddy Got Fingered?” This film has everything: graphic incest, Megan Mullally’s disembodied vagina, and two little gremlins called Sewer Boys who live in a cage and are fed ham directly from Nathan Lane’s mouth, like baby birds.
The audience response to something this consciously weird and transgressive will vary, but it’s difficult not to at least reticently admire a film that brings such wholehearted stupidity and fucked-uppery to the big screen, particularly in the sweet, usually sanitized genre of the movie musical. Its release feels like an appropriate reason to dig into the movie-musical oddities that came before it — the tuners that waded so fully into WTF territory, they’d make even the people behind The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Hedwig and the Angry Inch scratch their heads.
So here’s a list of the strangest, most transgressive movie musicals in cinema history.
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Before dumping a bucket of pig blood on Sissy Spacek in Carrie or introducing us to Al Pacino’s “little friend” in Scarface, Brian De Palma directed this weirdo glam-rock riff on The Phantom of the Opera. Its plot plays out like a sort of
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