Mondo Trasho

Mondo Trasho is a 1969 film by Baltimore, Maryland filmmaker John Waters starring Divine, Mary Vivian Pearce, David Lochary and Mink Stole.

Platinum blonde heroine Mary Vivian Pearce begins her day by riding the bus and reading Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon. She is later seduced by a perverted 'shrimper', hit by a car driven by Divine and visited by a vision of the Virgin Mary amongst other terribly dramatic and trashy situations.

The film was considered very shocking at the time of its release, particularly because of a strange encounter between Divine and Mink Stole in a church pew.

Waters was arrested during the film's production for illegally shooting a scene involving a nude hitchhiker on the campus of Johns Hopkins University.

The film's title referrs to a series of semi-related quasi-documentary films that were popular during the 1960s: Mondo Cane, Mondo Freudo , Mondo Bizarro etc.

External links

• IMDb entry on Mondo Trasho