Plot
Vinny is obsessed with famous actress Jana Bates and is determined to have her star in his movie. He travels to the Cannes Film Festival in France to try and convince her. Unfortunately, he goes about things in a rather unprofessional manner and people invloved with Jana Bates begin to disappear.
Keywords: actor, blood, cannes, cannes-film-festival, chainsaw, decapitation, electrocution, female-nudity, film-festival, film-in-film
Babes are dying to be in his movie!
She's Dying To Be In His Film ...
Inescapable fear descends upon the French Riviera.
A Deadly Game of Hide and Seek.
Jana Bates: I've seen enough fake blood to know the real thing when I see it.
Vinny Durand: Hi, Ma.::Vinny's Mother: Hi, Vinny. You're home early. What's wrong? Are you sick?::Vinny Durand: I'm fine. Couldn't be better. I'm home early because I just got my round-trip plane ticket. I'm leaving tomorrow for Europe. I'm going to the south of France for the Cannes Film Festival, Ma!::Vinny's Mother: [as Vinny goes to his room to pack] Vinny, stop talking about those crazy ideas of yours. I made baked macaroni. You don't eat right. You need more proten so you wouldn't have to think of those crazy ideas.::Vinny Durand: I don't know why you think my ideas are crazy, Ma. I'm going to the Cannes Film Festival to meet my idol, Jana Bates. I'm gonna propose to her to work in my first film. What is so crazy about that?::Vinny's Mother: It's wrong for you to be thinking about Jana Bates day and night! Why can't you be happy just driving the cab?::Vinny Durand: Because I got talent, Ma! I'm gonna be a great director someday!::Vinny's Mother: Don't yell at me!::Vinny Durand: I'm going to France to make my movie and nobody... nobody is gonna get in my way!
[last lines]::[after watching the rough cut of Vinny's movie in a screening room]::Vinny's Mother: Vinny, I'm real proud of you. You finally did make your movie with Jana Bates.::Vinny Durand: Thanks, Ma. But this'll be the first and last horror film I'll ever make. Let me tell you about my next movie. You got any more baked maccaroni?::Vinny's Mother: Nope.::Vinny Durand: Anyway, let me tell you about my next picture.::Vinny's Mother: Vinny...::Vinny Durand: It's a science fiction drama. I'm on a ship in outer space... just me and Jana.::Vinny's Mother: Vinny...::Vinny Durand: Lost in space, fighting off aliens and space pirates. Protecting the princess that...::Vinny's Mother: Vinny!::Vinny Durand: What is it, Ma?::Vinny's Mother: Ya got a joint?
Karen Black (born July 1, 1939) is an American actress, screenwriter, singer, and songwriter. She is noted for appearing in such films as Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, The Great Gatsby, Rhinoceros, The Day of the Locust, Nashville, Airport 1975, and Alfred Hitchcock's final film, Family Plot. Over the course of her career, she won two Golden Globe Awards (out of three nominations), and an Academy Award nomination in 1970 for Best Supporting Actress, among numerous other honors.
Black was born as Karen Blanche Ziegler in Park Ridge, Illinois, in suburban Chicago, the daughter of Elsie Mary (née Reif), a writer of several prize-winning children's novels, and Norman Arthur Ziegler. Her paternal grandfather was Arthur Charles Ziegler, a classical musician and the first violinist for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Her sister is actress Gail Brown. Black is of German, Bohemian (Czech), and Norwegian descent. She attended Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, for two years, having commenced university studies in 1954, aged 15. She then moved to New York where she appeared in a number of Off-Broadway productions, as well as moonlighting on the female professional wrestling circuit.