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A neurotic society woman murders her husband with the help of her maid and, on the lam, escape to Mortville, a homeless community ruled over by a fascist queen.

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A talented young photographer, who enjoys snapping photos of his satirical, perverted Baltimore neighborhood and his wacky family, gets dragged into a world of pretentious artists from New York City and finds newfound fame.

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Roger Ebert
August 18, 2000

My best guess is that John Waters produced the talent shows in his high school. There’s always been something cheerfully amateurish about his more personal films–a feeling that he and his friends have dreamed up a series of “skits” while hanging out together.

“Cecil B. Demented” takes this tendency to an almost unwatchable extreme, in a home movie that’s like a bunch of kids goofing off.

To be sure, he has real stars in the picture; Melanie Griffith stars as a Hollywood star, and Stephen Dorff plays the cult leader who kidnaps her as part of his guerrilla assault on mainstream cinema. But they’re used more as exhibits than performers (Look! It’s Melanie Griffith!). The movie has a radical premise, as weatherman-type movie lovers try to destroy dumb commercial films, but pitches it at the level of a very bad sketch on “Saturday Night Live.” Cinema guerrilla Cecil B. Demented (Dorff) and his cult group kidnap spoiled movie star Honey Whitlock (Griffith), who will be forced to star in their film. Their targets include the Maryland Film Commission, the big shots who produced Honey’s new film, and “Gump Two,” a sequel to “Forrest Gump,” which is being shot in Baltimore. Some of this stuff is funny in concept (when they attack the director’s cut of “Patch Adams,” that’s good for a laugh, although the scene itself isn’t).

And Griffith, as Honey Whitlock, gets into the spirit. She makes the life of her assistant (Ricki Lake) miserable, she makes impossible demands, she sends back a limousine that’s the wrong color (not fiction; I once actually saw Ginger Rogers do this) and she is not a good sport when it comes to eating Maryland seafood (“I’m not interested in some kind of meal you have to beat with a mallet while wearing some stupid little bib, while families of mutants gawk in your face”).

But the story and dialogue are genuinely amateur night, and there are times when you can almost catch the actors giggling, like kids in a senior class sketch. It’s been like that in a lot of Waters’ movies, from the raunchy early sleazoids like “Pink Flamingos,” through his transitional phase (“Polyester”) to his studio productions (“Hairspray,” “Cry-Baby,” Serial Mom”). Now he seems to have returned to his middle period again, if such a thing is possible.

“Cecil B. Demented” got its title, Waters says, because that’s what he was called in an early review. Like Ed Wood (but inevitably at a higher level of artistry), he seems to enjoy the actual process of making films: He likes to go to the set, have actors, say “Action!” and see everyone have a good time. Sometimes, in this film, that geniality works against him; the actors are having a better time than we are.

Too much of the movie feels like the kind of film where you’re supposed to say, Look! There’s . . . and fill in the name of a faded TV personality. Patricia Hearst, who appeared in Waters’ funny “Cry-Baby,” is back, for example, to add ironic weight to a story about a kidnapper who identifies with her captors. How entertaining is that really supposed to be? Waters has always embraced a tacky design look in his films, and here a lot of the sets seem decorated by stuff everybody brought from home. Old movie posters are plastered on the walls, the cult hangs around in what looks like a rec room, and there are movie in-jokes everywhere. (Cult members have the names of their favorite directors tattooed on their arms.) Cecil also tells us, “I don’t believe in phony life-affirming endings.” He sure doesn’t. The ending of “Cecil B. Demented” may be phony, but it’s not life-affirming. One wonders if the script simply says: Everyone runs around like crazy.

There will, however, always be a (small) corner of my heart filled with admiration for John Waters. He is an anarchist in an age of the cautious, an independent in an age of studio creatures, a man whose films are homemade and contain no chemicals or preservatives. Even with “Cecil B. Demented,” which fails on just about every level, you’ve got to hand it to him: The idea for the film is kind of inspired. When this kid gets out of high school, he’s going to amount to something. You wait and see.

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John Waters made bad taste perversely transcendent with the forever shocking counterculture sensation Pink Flamingos, his most infamous and daring cinematic transgression. Outré diva Divine is iconic as the wanted criminal hiding out with her family of degenerates in a trailer outside Baltimore while reveling in her tabloid notoriety as the “Filthiest Person Alive.” When a pair of sociopaths (Mink Stole and David Lochary) with a habit of kidnapping women in order to impregnate them attempt to challenge her title, Divine resolves to show them and the world the true meaning of the word “filth.” Incest, cannibalism, shrimping, and film history’s most legendary gross-out ending—Waters and his merry band of Dreamlanders leave no taboo unsmashed in this gleefully subversive ode to outsiderhood, in which camp spectacle and pitch-black satire are wielded in an all-out assault on respectability.

+Commentary by John Waters (1997 Criterion Laserdisc)
+Commentary by John Waters (2001 DVD)

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A movie like Female Trouble (1974) could be most easily classified as a comedy, but that is selling it short. “Comedy” doesn’t capture the specific satiric edge, the desperate shout, the exaggerated depravity of this film. It’s a loud, abject, offensive, and joyful declaration of self-determination and identity in the face of a world that has no use for anyone outside the norm.

Characters like Dawn Davenport and company are so far outside of the realm of acceptability that they can only exist in response to such a restrictive, repressed society. Dawn is a violent, abusive, dangerously self absorbed wannabe celebrity, and she is enabled in her depravity and her penchant for crime and murder by other outcasts. This community of rejects comes together to celebrate her because she is so defiantly herself in the face of a culture that doesn’t want to pay attention to people like her. So she and those around her force people to pay attention and Dawn is the only one who is able to make it through without sacrificing who she is, whatever the results.

And the results are hilarious. Dawn, like the rest of the movie, is gaudy to a hysterical extreme, and much of that is owed to Divine’s central performance. Divine’s greatness cannot be overstated. The sneering smile, hoarse voice, and imposing figure of Divine have such a strong onscreen presence that Waters’ camera cannot look away. All these elements coalesce into an outrageous manifesto against the very concept of good taste.

Coming out shortly after the Stonewall Riots and the birth of the modern queer liberation movement, the early films of John Waters are shocking in their total rejection of the straight world. Rather than make respectable films about the noble struggles of being queer, John Waters seems more interested in marking out his own territory. The film is dirty in every way, from the sets to the content. No part of it fits what might conventionally be called beautiful. It’s a declaration of queer separatism. Waters is not interested in making movies that can be bought and sold and admired by his oppressors. Instead, he is shouting that they can keep their polite society because queers don’t want any part of it. We’re having too much fun being beautiful and depraved.

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Allison is a “square” good girl who has decided she wants to be bad and falls hard for Cry-Baby Walker, a Greaser (or “Drape” in John Waters parlance). Spoofing Elvis movies and Juvenile Delinquency scare films of the ’50s, this movie follows the adventures of Cry-Baby who, though he is sent to juvie, is determined to cross class (and taste) boundaries to get Allison back.

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For his first studio picture, filth maestro John Waters took advantage of his biggest budget yet to allow his muse Divine to sink his teeth into a role unlike any he had played before: Baltimore housewife Francine Fishpaw, a heroine worthy of a Douglas Sirk melodrama. Blessed with a keen sense of smell and cursed with a philandering pornographer husband, a parasitic mother, and a pair of delinquent children, the long-suffering Francine turns to the bottle as her life falls apart—until deliverance appears in the form of a hunk named Todd Tomorrow (vintage heartthrob Tab Hunter). Enhanced with Odorama technology that enables you to scratch and sniff along with Francine, Polyester is one of Waters’ most hilarious inventions, replete with stomach-churning smells, sadistic nuns, AA meetings, and foot stomping galore.

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