The story is as follows: This movie obsessed kid living with his wheelchair mother slash aunt who drives movie reels around Hollywood for a living gets to meet a Marilyn Monroe look-a-like girl whose name also is Marilyn and who dresses like Marilyn and behaves like Marilyn and whose idol is Marilyn...well, you get the idea. For some reason she finds the boy "somewhat cute" and they have a movie date. Problem is she doesn't show up for the date because she simply forgets it, being distracted with another boy. He don't like that one bit and after his mother slash aunt pushes him over the edge and he pushes her and her wheelchair over the edge the guy goes haywire and he dresses up like movie characters (see poster) to kill various people who he don't like one bit like his boss or young Mickey Rourke who pushes him around and doesn't pay him the money he owes him for losing a "what's Humphrey Bogart's full name in Casablanca" bet.

We also get to know a psychiatrist slash cop who's investigating in the case and who gets closer with the female cop he's working with and who has to hold his ground against his "let's just kill all criminals" tough cop boss and which is really boring and unnecessary. As the movie gets into slasher mode and the main character more and more often believes he is James Cagney in 'White Heat' (apparently his favorite movie) the viewer gets permission to stop carrying about anyone because the movie failed to establish enough sympathy for anyone in the first half which was brim full with direct movie references and name dropping but didn't have enough originality to really be engaging. It also doesn't help that the guy's insane laugh after every kill becomes annoyingly repetitive. We get a final in front, inside, and even on top of the Chinese Theater, which partly recreates the 'White Heat' final and incorporates our Marilyn so at least we have something to jerk off to.

It isn't an awful film, the movie references (including films only film buffs would know) are an attraction for any film buff and potentially the movie fan viewer easily is able to relate to the psycho killer main character, it just fails to really succeed on any level as a compelling movie. If you want to see a film about a movie fanatic who loses touch with reality and thinks he is a murderous character in a movie seek out 'Finding Interest' (1994) instead.