Our screening of Desperate Living on the 29th of August will feature an introduction from Token Homo, programmer of the legendary Bar Trash and Queer Horror Nights.

John Waters first feature without Divine in the lead takes some cues from mid-century womens pictures and queers it up with the gross-out, boundary pushing, excess that made him famous and an ambitious forray into fantsyland. Mink Stole is hysterical (and hysteric) as a woman on the run hiding out in the fairytale town of Mortville where evil Queen Carlotta (Waters regular Edith Massey) rules with an iron fist. Every emotion is played pitched up to the highest height while all of the humor skews to the lowest low. If something so deliberately tacky and in such poor taste could be considered operatic, then Desperate Living is it.

Cast:
Liz Renay, Mink Stole, Susan Lowe, Edith Massey, Mary Vivian Pearce