For the uninitiated, Mortville is the gloriously grimy shantytown at the center of 1977’s Desperate Living, the Pope of Trash’s fairytale for perverts, ruled by the tyrannical Queen Carlotta, populated by wrestlers, murderesses, and a woman who eventually gets what’s coming to her in the most anatomically memorable way possible.
It remains the only Waters film without Divine, and somehow it out-filths the competition anyway. Iconic real estate. So the idea of him strolling back into that trash-heap kingdom, at 80, has us feral. Check it out above!
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