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Mondo Trasho is a 1969 American 16mm Mondo film Black comedy by John Waters. The film stars Divine, Mary Vivian Pearce, David Lochary and Mink Stole. It contains very little dialogue, the story being told mostly through musical cues.
Bombshell is later seduced by a hippie degenerate "shrimper" (), who starts molesting her feet while she fantasizes about being Cinderella. She is then hit by a car driven by Divine, a portly blonde who was trying to pick up an attractive hitchhiker whom she imagines naked.
Divine places Bombshell in the car and drives to a thrift store where she steals clothes for her and later steals shoes from a dead homeless woman.
The Bombshell is then brought to a coin laundry where Divine cleans her face up with a wipe and changes her into the clothes she stole. Divine is then visited by the Blessed Virgin Mary (Margie Skidmore)—during which Divine exclaims, "Oh Mary ... teach me to be Divine". Divine is then gifted a wheelchair by Mary which she uses to wheel the unconscious Bombshell around.
When Divine returns to her car she is in shock to see that it has been stolen by a man in sunglasses. While trying to take a detour to the doctor's, Divine and the bombshell are then captured in a violent asylum.
At the asylum, Divine is robbed of a cigarette and watches in disgust as topless tap dancer get sexually assaulted before Virgin Mary visits her again, this time giving her a hunting knife. After seeing the miracle, the inmates break out of the asylum and flee happily into Baltimore
Divine finally takes the unconscious Bombshell to Dr. Coathanger and his dangerously ill nurse, who Amputation her feet and replace them with bird-like monster feet which she can tap together to transport herself around Baltimore.
Meanwhile, Divine is interrogated by a reporter which she shows disdain to until the camera starts taking photos. She is then beaten by a member of the police, which leads to a gunfight between him and many bystanders. Divine throws a lamp at the police officer and wrestles with the officer until she kills him, she accidentally stabs herself in the stomach in the process. After Dr. Coathanger tries to abduct a high school girl, he drops the Bombshell and Divine in the woods but as she is about to succumb to her wounds, she is taken and "granted divinity," by Virgin Mary.
The Bombshell then travels across Baltimore with her bird feet, which leads to her being mooned by greasers in an alley and being repeatedly insulted by two snobs.
Mondo Trasho currently holds a 43% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on seven reviews.
In an interview with the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on tour for his book release of Mr Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder (2019), Waters stated that Mondo Trasho would never get released again due to copyright issues with the music and that it would cost $1 million just to secure rights for the music.
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