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.

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 dubbed Italian 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

FEATURES:

• MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
• Media Format ‏ : ‎ 4K, Subtitled
• Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 30 minutes
• Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 2
• Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
• Studio ‏ : ‎ The Criterion Collection

DESPERATE LIVING CRITERION COLLECTION (ULTRA HD)