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.

• The Criterion Collection
• John Waters
• Mink Stole
• Susan Lowe
• Mary Vivian Pearce
• Jean Hill
• Edith Massey
• Liz Renay
• Vincent Peranio