Following the unrepentant outrageousness of Pink Flamingos and Female Trouble, director John Waters brought his notorious trash trilogy to a fittingly twisted close with this antifascist fairy tale. After hysterical housewife Peggy Gravel (Mink Stole) murders her husband with the help of her fed-up housekeeper (Jean Hill), the newfound “sisters in crime” escape to the bizarro shantytown of Mortville, a depraved penal colony presided over by a despotic queen (Edith Massey) whose tyranny pushes her subjects to shocking revolt. Deviant cops, death by dog food, DIY surgery—Waters unleashes all this and more in an at once relentlessly warped and oddly moral vision of queer rebellion.
FILM INFO
United States
1977
90 minutes
Color
1.66:1
English
Spine #1316
DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director John Waters, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
Audio commentary featuring Waters and actor Liz Renay
Optional Italian dub track
New conversation between Waters and film programmer Cristina Cacioppo
Back to Mortville, a tour of the film’s main Baltimore location, led by Waters
New interview with actors Susan Lowe, Mary Vivian Pearce, and Mink Stole
Interview with production designer Vincent Peranio
Trailer
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
PLUS: An essay by critic Grace Byron
Cover based on an original theatrical poster featuring photography by Peter Hujar