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![Tomorrow at 7 p.m. catch John Waters' first feature MONDO TRASHO.
“Bizarre! Insane! Macabre! [A] delight to trash lovers everywhere” – Derek Winnert
A trash cinema spectacle combining the queer-underground ethos of Kenneth Anger and Andy Warhol with a carnival freak show, Mondo Trasho is where it all began for the Pope of Trash. A delirious collage of surreal sketches, outrageous characters, and gleeful provocation, John Waters’ debut feature is raw, cheap, and defiantly unpolished. Made on a budget of a couple thousand dollars and scored to a nonstop array of early rock ‘n’ roll, Mondo Trasho stars Waters’ Dreamland Players, including Mink Stole, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, and the immortal Divine in a make-it-up-as-it-goes-along plot involving moonings, a hit and run, a hippie foot fetishist, a deranged insane asylum, the Virgin Mary, and chicken foot surgery. Never released on DVD or Blu-ray due to music licensing issues, Mondo Trasho is a rare opportunity to see Waters’ mad genius take shape. As the film’s original poster announced, “At last… a gutter film.”
But be warned! This movie is not for everyone. Like other early Waters films, it contains violence toward chickens and other nasty content.](https://arkadincinema.com/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png)