Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

People are voting emotionally.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

DESPERATE LIVING is an hilarious assault on "good taste" and the last real John waters film before he went mainstream in the '80s. This "Alice In Wonderland on acid" cartoon full of "sex & savagery" (not to mention necrophilia, incest, and cannibalism) kicks off when suburban mom Peggy Gravel (Mink Stole) goes on the lam with her 400 lb. maid after the hefty domestic kills the man of the house by sitting on him. "Thelma & Louise" make their way to Mortville, a safe haven for criminals ruled over by the megalomanical nymphomaniac Queen Carlotta (Edith Massey) but as Mole the lesbian points out, "it isn't very pretty what a town without pity can do" and they land right smack in the middle of a dictatorship ripe for bloody revolution.I wouldn't watch something like this unless I was stoned and at first it was so shrill (with everybody screaming until I thought I'd get a headache) but once I started laughing I couldn't stop right up until the hysterical, anarchic ending. There's as many inventive deaths and set- piece slaying in this movie as there are in any good giallo and that kept me happy, too. I think the reason why I never tried too hard to track DESPERATE LIVING down before was because Divine wasn't in it but former Hollywood glamor girl and Mickey Cohen moll Liz Renay more than made up for it. Liz was an ex- con and a stripper at that point in her life and had no problem shedding her inhibitions to run around nude, bend over to have the queen kiss her butt, or get raped by her lesbian lover after a sex-change operation. I'm sorry I waited so long to see this -it's outrageous fun!

It's incredible how much trash can be put together in one film (that's if we can call this crap a film). It's the worst movie I've ever seen. It's stupidity all over. I can't find words to describe this garbage. Everything in this filming is bad: the script, the actors, the editing, it's deprivations with really bad taste. Nothing makes sense. I just don't understand how some people can give this a 9 out of 10. They haven't watched any good movie yet. I don't give it a 0 because it's not an option, you can only rate it from 1 to 10. If there were minus, I'd give it a minus 10 (-10). There so many good movies to watch. It's not worth it at all wasting our time with this. I only watch it because they gave it a 7 out of 10, so I thought it was good. How mistaken was I!

I was 15 and we had just gotten a satellite dish, i was flipping channels and was greeted by someone running over what looked like a REAL dog, then i saw and heard Mink Stole for the very first time and was hooked. I sat and watched in horror and stunned silence as i witnessed the wildest movie i had ever seen. I was speechless and a little scared to laugh out loud. This movie really opened my eyes, i had know idea a person would/could/should make a film like this...clueless. Anyway, this movie has some of the best lines of all time. "I was raped by those lottery officials" "I'm so hungry i could eat cancer" "I want a wang and i want it now" The list goes on and on you can just about quote almost every single thing anyone says. Years later a friend was a waters freak, and we watched it together and was able to understand a lot more of the filthy stuff, plus i had missed the beginning the first time, and wow what a beginning. I will never miss a chance to see this fantastic movie.

John Waters's films are just plain wrong. This film doesn't have his big star Divine. I thank God for that but it has every other aspect of a true John Waters film.If you thought Pink Flamingos goes beyond the level of trash.. Then you need to rent this film and see for yourself…I mean.. Did we really need to see that 400 pound black woman naked. I think not… My eyes are still healing after seeing that . Then when you think it's all done.. Here comes Edith Massey naked from waste down. OUCH!!!!! GOD NO!!!! I'm still having nightmares…I give this film……… 3 mooos… It's trashy enough for those of you who like trash.. For the rest of us… Make sure your pretty well out drunk before you watch..That's my story & I'm sticking to it…Mooby"For GODs sake, let the Moobster dance!" quote: N. Fisher