James Ellroy, the best-selling author of L.A. Confidential and My Dark Places, is one of America's most original and daring writers, often compared to Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. His obsession with crime began with his mother's murder when he was a young boy and led, for a time, to his own life of petty crime, drugs, and drink.

In this critically acclaimed film, Ellroy gives a guided tour of Los Angeles' (and his own) dark secrets and devious passions. Accompanied by his pit bull Barko, Ellroy cruises L.A.'s streets in his old Cadillac convertible, visiting the notorious Black Dahlia murder scene and rhapsodizing about the vast conspiracy of police and city corruption imagined in L.A. Confidential. James Ellroy: Demon Dog captures the artist at his weirdest and best, soaked in the paranoid atmosphere of his own books.

"Hugely entertaining, truly chilling!" -Film Journal
"The dark prince of pulp fiction!" -Newsday
"Not since Crumb has a documentary focused on an artist this articulate with a family history of equally ferocious dysfunctionality - and been so engrossing!" --New York Post