Cecil B. Demented

REVIEW
John Waters takes us on a trip through his obsessions in this satiric attack on commercial Hollywood movies. Cecil B. Demented (Dorff) is a director with a vision, one of a world without movies like Gump Again and Patch Adams…the Director's Cut! Cecil and his band of former porn stars, drug addicts, satanists and social outcasts kidnap Honey Whitlock (Griffith) an A-Star who makes crappy large-budget movies to star in their new film, Raving Lunatic. The movie has a vague plot attacking Hollywood movies and involves actual attacks on the Hollywood system. The crew wear tatoos of Waters' favorite directors; Sam Fuller, Sam Peckinpah, RW Fassbinder, Kenneth Anger and William Castle. Using the old theaters of Baltimore as stage sets, pitting family movie fans against Kung-Fu fans, Waters has neatly tucked his obsessions into another wonderful Midnight Movie.