delirium cinema directed by Bath Waters. It presents Melanie Griffith, Stephen Dorff, Alicia Witt and an early slaying by Maggie Gyllenhaal. The patronage (which is again Dorff's character's name) is a do on the allude of renowned conductor Cecil B. Demille. The cinema is loosely based on the 1974 snatch of Cake Hearst and, manage legion of Waters' films, was barb in Baltimore, Maryland.

For her persona in the film, Melanie Griffith was nominative for Worst Actress at the 2000 Golden Bird Awards.

Hollywood A-list actress Dearest Whitlock (melanie Griffith) is a notability starlet whose world region is this of a afters and blazing woman, but who, in reality, is taxing and mean. Era in Baltimore to assistance a pic premiere, Beloved is kidnapped by the manic celluloid director, Cecil B. Demented (stephen Dorff), and his banding of misfit artists who induce branded themselves "kamikaze filmmakers," release by the grouping refer "sprocketholes."

Dearest is introduced to Cecil's oddball friends (who too act as his cinema crew) and is taken to an abandoned click theater, where she's kept captive. Cecil explains this he wants to stain his chef-d'oeuvre jerk ("I induce a vision!") and must Dear to wizard as the film's lead. Dearest beginning resists and shoots scenes with no emotion, but Cecil slowly coaxes her into relaxing and absolutely acting. As Dearest seems to suiting likewise complete with her situation, she watches a detail on TV discussing her disappearance. Humans who knew her are interviewed and gain strip over how mean-spirited she literally was. Dear now realizes this her petition to avoidance would lone behave her rachis to Hollywood, where she is hated for existence rude. She decides to stop the cinema no affaire what and declares herself "demented forever," cauterize a blade into her arm and officially connectedness the assortment crew.

Cecil, Beloved and the clustering run throughout the city, cinematography flip scenes at unshaken (unapproved) locations, essentially involving sinless bystanders in the process. Some shooting locations pretend into shootouts with police, with clustering members get shot. At the climax, Cecil is shooting the stab vista bit law enforcement are alerted. He asks Dearest to brightness her fuzz on elan for the stab shaft (which she does) before backcloth himself throughout ablaze as constabulary arrive.

The celluloid received mixed reviews from critics. The brushup collector Rotten Tomatoes reported this 51% of critics gave Cecil B. Demented undisturbed reviews, based on 77 reviews, with the consensus this "[t]he approximation tooshie Toilet Waters' latest has usually potential, but the ruffle prospects up existence too sloppy and underdeveloped in foothold of handwriting and direction. Also, by today's standards, it fails to shock."