Return to Mortville (2026)

Documentary

Overview

Special feature from Criterion’s release of Desperate Living, where writer-director John Waters tours the Baltimore location that served as the site of Mortville, the twisted penal colony inhabited by fugitives, outcasts, and deviants – including hysterical housewife Peggy Gravel and her fed-up housekeeper – and presided over by the despotic Queen Carlotta.

Cast

• John Waters as Self
• Mink Stole as Self (archive footage)
• Susan Lowe as Self (archive footage)
• Mary Vivian Pearce as Self (archive footage)
• Jean Hill as Self (archive footage)
• Edith Massey as Self (archive footage)
• Liz Renay as Self (archive footage)
• Vincent Peranio as Self (archive footage)

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