- Release Date: 2000
- Runtime: 87 min
- Genre: Comedy
- Starring: Melanie Griffith, Stephen Dorff, Alicia Witt, Adrian Grenier ... see all
- Director: John Waters
- Plot: In Baltimore, guerrilla filmmaker Cecil B. Demented leads a band of cinema revolutionaries who kidnap Honey Whitlock, a bitchy and aging movie star of big-budget froth. Cecil wants her in... Read more
User Reviews
What crap!
Aug 11, 2007
dh2u_2002 - yahoo.com
Aug 11, 2007dh2u_2002 - yahoo.com
What a lousy movie! No wonder you don't see Melanie Griffith anymore. Don't waste your time with this one. Comedy?-not in this film. Sexy?-right, your great grandmother is sexy too!... Full review
In top three of worst movies ever made.
May 17, 2007
gila34698 - yahoo.com
May 17, 2007gila34698 - yahoo.com
So many so called plot holes,its pathetic.If you are sucker enough to watch this junk just keep asking yourself,but why would they be doing that.M.G owed a big favor to someone for this mess. Yes I sat through it but thats... Full review
Just a bad movie.
May 17, 2007
stoutmaker72 - yahoo.com
May 17, 2007stoutmaker72 - yahoo.com
I wanted to like it but the movie gave me nothing. It takes the idea of bucking the establishment and goes NOWHERE with it. Plus, what was the point of "Satan" girl? Seriously, it is just an excuse for bad actors... Full review
Cecil B. Demented
Apr 02, 2007
nubz14 - yahoo.com
Apr 02, 2007nubz14 - yahoo.com
John Waters' "Cecil B. Demented" is a darkly comic, brilliantly satirical offering that will, whether critics like it or not, undoubtedly become a cult classic in years to come. With a giddily insane performance from Stephen Dorff as Cecil B. Demented... Full review
Memorable Waters film
Nov 05, 2006
sickiriffic - yahoo.com
Nov 05, 2006sickiriffic - yahoo.com
I am a big fan of this film, but if you don't like John Waters, or haven't seen him, you may not get it. It is a little corny, but which of his films are not? I was a huge fan... Full review
Demented Forever
Nov 05, 2006
aquafina1101 - yahoo.com
Nov 05, 2006aquafina1101 - yahoo.com
This is not a movie for crusty ass up-tight lil *****s.If you would like to see what I mean look at some other user reviews on this movie...This movie was very original,and the lack there of in our world of chick... Full review
poop
Nov 05, 2006
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Nov 05, 2006a_1337_4axx0r - yahoo.com
this movie is like pooping in your hand and then throwing it at people from a sky scraper. then getting away with it again... Full review
MPAA eat your heart out!
Nov 05, 2006
filmincarnate - yahoo.com
Nov 05, 2006filmincarnate - yahoo.com
John Waters delievers once again in an almost auto-biographical story about a renegade underground film director. If you know Waters' work than you know most of it was guerilla filmaking and was not exactly "mainstream" especially the early films like Female... Full review
my favorite movie
Nov 05, 2006
hungrycanibal - yahoo.com
Nov 05, 2006hungrycanibal - yahoo.com
If you want to laugh yer bum off watch this movie. It is full of sight gags, high brow humor and the jokes that are only funny because they take it to the lowest common denominator. If you have a problem... Full review
Critics Reviews
| Oct 02, 2000Laramie Movie Scope
There seems to be a little bit of Waters in the hero of the movie, mad movie director Cecil B. Demented (played very well by Stephen Dorff of "Blade"), who kidnaps a Hollywood starlet to headline his film.
Perhaps Waters would like to be regarded like the outrageous Cecil B. Demented.
... Full Review
| Sep 01, 2000Palo Alto Online
Still, "Cecil B. Demented" succeeds at sending up what Waters loves most--making movies.
John Waters brings his trademark junk aesthetic to the world of indie filmmaking and comes up with his best movie since "Hairspray.
... Full Review
| Aug 18, 2000Entertainment Weekly
the film has a few viciously funny moments, like the one in which Cecil's followers commit vengeful mayhem at a mall theater.....That's a promising idea for a satire....He makes shaggy, lower-depths-of-Baltimore comedies that wink and jab at transgressive themes.... ... Full Review
| Aug 18, 2000theglobeandmail.com
But Cecil B. DeMented is a terrific movie.....Cameras rolling, they shoot a Hollywood-type scene, complete with pretentious assistants gabbing into cell phones, which quickly turns into a guerrilla denunciation of commercial film.....Of course, Waters's satire is completely harmless..... ... Full Review
| Aug 17, 2000The Portland Mercury, OR
Persistence (and a good special effects person) pays off.
John is much funnier.
But they would jump out of a car and shoot scenes without permission.
I asked John if Patty Hearst, who always appears in his movies, was an inspiration.
... Full Review
News
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2009-10-16
Cecil B. DeMented
chron.com –
2004-03-25
The underground movie-making "cinema terrorists" of Cecil B. DeMented have a chant to work themselves into a film-making frenzy. "Demented forever!," they shout in honor of their cult leader, director Cecil B. ... Full Article
Cecil B. Demented (2001)
ew.com –
2001-01-23
Cecil B Demented - Film Review
totalfilm.com –
2000-12-08
Gone are the days when Hollywoods only concern was to put the movies up on the big screen.Now its all about the marketing tie-ins, merchandising opportunities and the amount of drinks sold in the foyer. ... Full Article
CECIL B. DEMENTED (1999) - R Reviews
showbizdata.com –
2000-08-11
There are a lot of things you could call Cecil B. Demented , John Waters' latest art-house ornament about a obsessed independent filmmaker who goes by the nom de poseur of Cecil B. ... Full Article
Cecil B. DeMented
courant.com –
2000-08-11
Honey, targeted not only because she has conveniently come to town but also because she represents all that Cecil hates about Hollywood, is none too happy to become a kidnap victim. ... Full Article

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