A band of cinema terrorists kidnap a big-time Hollywood star (Melanie Griffith) and force her to be in their film at gunpoint.
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The films of John Waters have always been very educational. In a pre-internet world, his films and their commentary tracks were the only place one could go to learn about things like teabagging and shrimping. They're like a crash-course in perversion. But a doctorate in filth is not the only thing to be gleamed. For 18-year-old-about-to-enter-film-school Craig Duffy, Cecil B. Demented was invaluable. No first-year film program is going to teach you about alternative-auteurs like Passolini, Anger or Fassbinder. For this and so much more I will be forever indebted to Mr. John Samuel Waters Jr. Demented for life. Demented forever. Power to the people who punish bad Cinema!
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