History Film / CecilBDemented

* BlackComedyRape [[RapeAsBackstory as Backstory]]: Cherish claims as a recovered memory that at the age of 10, she was gang-raped by her entire family, including her grandparents, under the Christmas tree.

* BlackComedyRape [[RapeAsBackstory as Backstory]]: At the age of 10, Cherish was gang-raped by her entire family, including her grandparents, under the Christmas tree.

* [[TheBigGuy The Big Chick]]: Raven, oddly enough, being the BoisterousBruiser/PerkyGoth/CloudCuckoolander that she is.

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* SkeletonMotif: Raven wears an outfit with rainbow-colored bones down the front of it.

The crazed group just has one minor problem: their film doesn't have a star yet, so they "acquire" one in Hollywood actress Honey Whitlock (Creator/MelanieGriffith), kidnapping her at the premiere of her latest film. Honey continually tries to stop Demented and his comrades-in-celluloid from making their film and secure her release, but when she sees how people react to her after she's joined up with the Sprocket Holes, she starts to turn to their side and get in on the (lights, camera and) action of Demented's insane filmmaking. HilarityEnsues
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The crazed group just has one minor problem: their film doesn't have a star yet, so they "acquire" one in Hollywood actress Honey Whitlock (Melanie Griffith), kidnapping her at the premiere of her latest film. Honey continually tries to stop Demented and his comrades-in-celluloid from making their film and secure her release, but when she sees how people react to her after she's joined up with the Sprocket Holes, she starts to turn to their side and get in on the (lights, camera and) action of Demented's insane filmmaking. HilarityEnsues

%%* BadassAdorable: Raven
%%* BadassDriver: Petie

%%* CreepyMonotone: Raven

A 2000 comedy film by Creator/JohnWaters starring Stephen Dorff in the title role as deranged "independent director" Cecil B. Demented, the leader of an equally-deranged group of "filmmakers" who call themselves the Sprocket Holes and base themselves in Baltimore, Maryland. Their mission is to bring down mainstream cinema and destroy the studio system of filmmaking to make way for a new generation of film by any means necessary--which includes robbing theaters and stealing things like construction materials and film equipment in order to make their own film.

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: The title for the film came from the nickname given to John Waters by the headline of an interview; the plot idea came from an incident where ''Film Threat Magazine'' told its readers to attack the readers of ''Premier Magazine''...and some of those readers '''actually did'''.
** To a lesser extent, the kidnapping of Honey and her eventual siding with her captors, is similar to that of Patty Hearst's own kidnapping ordeal; Hearst herself appeared in this film (as Fidget's mother) and has appeared in every one of John Waters' other films after ''Film/CryBaby''.
** Also, [[spoiler:Honey setting her hair on fire]] was inspired by something Waters asked Mink Stole to do while filming ''Film/PinkFlamingos'' (which she refused to do).

* AffablyEvil: Lyle and Petie.

* AxCrazy: Cecil and the Sprocket Holes.

* BadassAdorable: Raven
* BadassDriver: Petie
* BadassLongcoat: Lewis has a great white fur coat.

* ButtMonkey: Fidget
* CampStraight: Rodney, though he wishes he was CampGay.

* CloudCuckoolander: Raven
* CreepyMonotone: Raven
* DarkMessiah: PlayedForLaughs with Cecil.

* HollywoodSatanism: Raven
* HornedHairdo: Raven, at the end.

* {{Jerkass}} --> HiddenHeartOfGold: Honey

* MadArtist: Lewis is a non-angsty version.

* PerkyGoth: Raven

* StraightGay: Petie

* ShonenHair: Cecil

* SycophanticServant: Fidget

* VillainProtagonist: Cecil and the Sprocket Holes.

* {{Badass}}: All the Sprocket Holes.
** BadassAdorable: Raven
** BadassDriver: Petie
** BadassLongcoat: Lewis has a great white fur coat.

* FiveManBand:
** TheHero: Cecil
** TheLancer: Cherish
** [[TheSmartGuy The Smart Guys]]: Petie, Rodney, Dana, Lewis
** [[TheBigGuy The Big Guys]]: Raven, Chardonee, Pam
** [[TheChick The Chicks]]: Fidgit, Lyle, Honey
** TheSixthRanger: Honey's Biggest Fan

The crazed group just has one minor problem: their film doesn't have a star yet, so they "acquire" one in Hollywood actress Honey Whitlock (Melanie Griffith), kidnapping her at the premiere of her latest film. Honey continually tries to stop Demented and his comrades-in-celluloid from making their film and secure her release, but when she sees how people react to her after she's joined up with the Sprocket Holes, she starts to turn to their side and get in on the (lights, camera and) action of Demented's insane filmmaking.

** To a lesser extent, the kidnapping of Honey and her eventual siding with her captors, is similar to that of Patty Hearst's own kidnapping ordeal; Hearst herself appeared in this film (as Fidget's mother) and has appeared in every one of John Waters' other films after ''CryBaby''.

* CrossesTheLineTwice: At one point, Cherish tells Honey, "When I was ten years old, my ''entire family'' fucked me under the Christmas tree!" Even by John Waters standards, this is a doozy.
** Cecil dismisses her claim as [[UnreliableNarrator "recovered memories"]].

* {{Jerkass}} --> HiddenHeartofGold: Honey

* ButtMonkey: Fidgit

** WorldofHam
* LaughablyEvil: Cecil and the Spocket Holes are twisted and definitely deranged, but that doesn't stop them from being unbelievably fun.

* PerkyGoth: Raven, again.

* ShoutOut: Each of the Sprocket Holes are tattooed with the name of a different director (ironically enough, none of them have a "[[CecilBDeMille Cecil B. DeMille]]" tattoo).

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: The title for the film came from the nickname given to JohnWaters by the headline of an interview; the plot idea came from an incident where ''Film Threat Magazine'' told its readers to attack the readers of ''Premier Magazine''...and some of those readers '''actually did'''.
** To a lesser extent, the kidnapping of Honey and her eventual siding with her captors, is similar to that of Patty Hearst's own kidnapping ordeal; Hearst herself appeared in this film (as Fidget's mother) and has appeared in every one of JohnWaters' other films after ''CryBaby''.

--> "I am Cecil B. Demented, and '''this is a [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] kidnapping!'''"

A 2000 comedy film by Creator/JohnWaters starring Stephen Dorff in the title role as deranged "independent director" Cecil B. Demented, the leader of an equally deranged group of "filmmakers" who call themselves the Sprocket Holes and base themselves in Baltimore, Maryland. Their mission is to bring down mainstream cinema and destroy the studio system of filmmaking to make way for a new generation of film by any means necessary - which includes robbing theaters and stealing things like construction materials and film equipment in order to make their own film.

The crazed group just has one minor problem: their film doesn't have a star yet -- so they "acquire" one in Hollywood actress Honey Whitlock (Melanie Griffith), kidnapping her at the premiere of her latest film. Honey continually tries to stop Demented and his comrades-in-celluloid from making their film and secure her release, but when she sees how people react to her after she's joined up with the Sprocket Holes, she starts to turn to their side and get in on the (lights, camera, and) action of Demented's insane filmmaking.

* [[TheBigGuy The Big Chick]]: Raven, oddly enough, being the BoisterousBruiser[=/=]PerkyGoth[=/=]CloudCuckoolander that she is.
* {{Badass}}: All the Sprocket Holes

* {{Black And Gray Morality}}/{{Evil Vs Evil}} : A rare case in which the VillainProtagonist group is the grey, apposed to the [[{{LawfulStupid}} law abiding]] and mainstream [[{{TheMan}} Hollywood]] system.
* BoundAndGagged: Honey.

* CampStraight: Rodney, though he wishes he was CampGay

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Raven.
* CreepyMonotone: Raven.

* DefrostingIceQueen: Honey is a complete bitch until she's kidnapped, which makes her much nicer throughout the rest of the film.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Cecil's declaration of "Power to the people who punish bad cinema!" after he kidnaps Honey Whitlock and shoots at a poster outside the cinema establishes that he's not only criminally insane, but that he hates Hollywood.
** Raven gets one as well: "Sorry, but Satan says you need more color!"
* {{Expy}}: Cherish is best known in the industry for being an Expy for Honey in porno knock offs of her big Hollywood movies.

** Cecil-TheHero
** Cherish-TheLancer
** Petie, Rodney, Dana, Lewis-TheSmartGuy (s)
** Raven, Chardonee, Pam-TheBigGuy (s)
** Fidgit, Lyle, Honey- TheChick (s)
** Honey's Bigest Fan- TheSixthRanger

* HotWitch: Raven's actually a Satanist, but the idea's the same.
* {{Jerkass}}->HiddenHeartofGold: Honey.
* LargeHam: Cecil, Cherish, Chardonee, Fidgit, Rodney, Raven and even, Honey herself.

* LaughablyEvil: Cecil and The Spocketholes are twisted and definitely deranged, but, that doesn't stop them from being unbelievably fun
* LittlestCancerPatient: Parodied with the young cancer patient at the premiere of Honey Whitlock's film at the beginning of the movie.
* LunaticLoophole: Raven is one of ''three'' Sprocket Holes who gets away from the police alive in the end. Making this especially egregious is when she calls to Honey, to tell her the movie's finished, then throws her a devil kiss, and ''not one cop notices her'', as she then hides in the back of a hearse.

* ManOnFire: Twice, both near the end of the film. [[spoiler:Partially with Honey Whitlock, who sets her hair on fire for the final shot of "principal photography" on Cecil's film; fully with Cecil a few minutes later, as he sets himself on fire and rides a wheelchair off the roof of the drive-in cinema building while screaming "I have a vision!".]]

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: The title for the film came from the nickname given to John Waters by the headline of an interview; the plot idea came from an incident where ''Film Threat Magazine'' told its readers to attack the readers of ''Premier Magazine''...and some of those readers '''actually did'''.
** To a lesser extent, the kidnapping of Honey Whitlock - and her eventual siding with her captors - is similar to that of Patty Hearst's own kidnapping ordeal; Hearst herself appeared in this film (as Fidget's mother), and has appeared in every one of John Waters' other films after ''Cry Baby''.
** Also, [[spoiler: Honey setting her hair on fire]] was inspired by something Waters asked Mink Stole to do while filming ''Film/PinkFlamingos'' (which she refused to do).

* ShonenHair: Cecil.

** Also, [[spoiler: Honey setting her hair on fire]] was inspired by something Waters asked Mink Stole to do while filming ''PinkFlamingos'' (which she refused to do).