It will come as a surprise to no one that John Waters, as a wayward youth, once got arrested at the since-shuttered Carlin’s Drive-In in Baltimore.
He used to spend lots of time at the local drive-ins, including Bengie’s Drive-In in Maryland, which is still open.
Waters seems so synonymous with drive-ins, he even shot the final scene of 2000’s “Cecil B.
Demented” at a local one.“I spent a week in the drive-in filming that finale, so that almost cured me ever wanting to go back to the drive-in again,” Waters said during a recent in-person interview.
The filmmaker donned an understated brown cloth mask, having just stepped out from his car after introducing the first in a double feature he programmed for the Provincetown International Film Festival over the weekend.
We spoke in the fading dusk as ketchup-soaked killer bunnies appeared onscreen, our conversation occasionally interrupted
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