Cecil B. Demented

A young underground filmmaker and his loyal band of film fanatics declare war on bad cinema, kidnap an A-list Hollywood movie queen Honey Whitlock and force her to star in their radical outlaw film. The cinema terrorists wreak havoc on the city of Baltimore, committing brazen acts of guerrilla filmmaking and stirring the populace to new levels of cinema unrest. Before long, Honey comes down with a severe case of Stockholm syndrome and joins the cinema revolutionaries in their bid to destroy the mainstream film industry, in this black comedy., A band of cinematic rebels kidnap a famous actress and force her to be in their film in this Hollywood satire from John Waters., Stephen Dorff (FearDotCom) stars as the eponymous film director, leader of a guerrilla collective of moviemakers, who kidnap top name Melanie Griffith (Mulholland Falls) to star in their underground movie. At first terrified, she soon begins to assert herself and it’s the director and his crew who start to suffer in John Waters’ delightful sideswipe to the myths of filmmaking and stardom., John Waters rebels against Hollywood with this breezy satire, centering on a band of cinema “terrorists” led by a loony director (Stephen Dorff). They make a statement about the commercialism of movies by kidnapping a Hollywood star (Melanie Griffith) and forcing her to star in their own offbeat film. Adrian Grenier, Alicia Witt, Larry Gilliard Jr., Maggie Gyllenhaal., Iconoclastic satirist John Waters bites the hand that (periodically) feeds him in this humorous look at the underside of the film industry. Self-styled guerrilla filmmaker Cecil (Stephen Dorff) leads a Baltimore movie-making collective/street gang called the Sprocket Holes, which includes Cecil’s girlfriend and frequent leading lady, a low-rent porn actress named Cherish Oh Lordy (Alicia Witt). Desperate for attention, they kidnap famous Hollywood actress Honey Whitlock (Melanie Griffith) during a Baltimore publicity stop and force her at gunpoint to star in their latest production, Raving Beauty. Before long, Honey comes down with a severe case of Stockholm syndrome and joins the Sprocket Holes in their bid to destroy the mainstream film industry. Waters regulars Ricki Lake, Patty Hearst, and Mink Stole highlight the supporting cast, and techno star Moby contributes to the soundtrack.