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The plot is as follows : Odile Deray, a publicist, has trouble promoting an [[Stylistic Suck|atrociously bad horror movie,]] ''[[Red Scare|Red is Dead]]'', about a Communist-themed serial killer. But just as the Cannes Film Festival starts, the projectionists of the movie get killed one by one by what seems to be a copycat of the movie's killer. Jumping on the occasion, she decides to use this unwanted publicity for building up the hype around the movie. As such, she gets the main actor of the movie, Simon Jérémi, to come to the festival, and hires a bodyguard, Serge Karamazov, to look after the two of them. Meanwhile, detective Patrick Biallès tries to resolve the murders, and additionally starts a relationship with Odile. [[Hilarity Ensues|Cue completely surreal scenes and parodies for 90 minutes]].
The movie has quite a fanbase, and is often seen as one of the funniest French comedies made -- not that there were many competitors during the 90's if you except ''Le Diner de Cons'' a.k.a. ''[[
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* [[Running Gag]]: Simon vomiting every time he's happy, Emile's bad breath ("take a piece of gum, Emile...") and inability to deliver the saying about how you can fool one man one time, but not one thousand men one time... No, wait... One thousand men one thousand times, but not one man one thousand times... Ah, screw this...
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* [[Show Within a Show]]: The ''Red is Dead'' movie.
** The whole movie is actually this, thanks to the "making our own sound effects because lack of budget" scene.
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