The Sinister Urge (1960)

Calificación de los usuarios:

1.9/10   

Director:

Edward D. Wood Jr.

Guionista:

Edward D. Wood Jr. (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

8 diciembre 1960 (USA)

Género:

Crimen | Drama | Suspenso

Frase comercial:

Branded for Torture...A SMUT PICTURE!

Plot:

A flunky for a porno movie ring starts murdering the smut films' lead actresses.

Plot Keywords:

Police | MST3K | Naive | Murder | Cult Favorite

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Eddie, we hardly knew ye.

Reparto

Kenne Duncan	...	Lt. Matt Carson
Duke Moore	...	Sgt. Randy Stone (as James 'Duke' Moore)
Jean Fontaine	...	Gloria Henderson
Carl Anthony	...	Johnny Ryde
Dino Fantini	...	Dirk Williams
Jeanne Willardson	...	Mary Smith
Harvey B. Dunn	...	Mr. Romaine
Reed Howes	...	Police Inspector
Fred Mason	...	Officer Kline
Vic McGee	...	Syndicate man
Harry Keaton	...	Jaffe (as Harry Keatan)
Conrad Brooks	...	Connie

También conocida como:

Hellborn
The Young and the Immoral

Duración:

71 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono

Clasificación:

Spain:T

Locaciones de Filmación:

Griffith Park Observatory, Griffith Park - 4730 Crystal Springs Drive, Los Angeles, California, USA

Compañía:

Headliner Productions

Trivialidades:

Edward D. Wood Jr. planned a sequel to this film titled "The Peeper", but he was never able to get any funding to film it.

Errores:

Continuidad: The pillow that hides Gloria's gun changes position before, during and after the police confiscate it for evidence.

Citas:

[Mary sees Ed Wood posters on pornographer Johnny Ride's office wall.]
Mary Smith: Are gangster and horror films all you produce?
Johnny Ryde: Those are made by friends of mine. I think you'll find my type of picture entirely different.

Conexiones de Película:

Apareció en U2: Numb (1993) (V)

Eddie, we hardly knew ye.

Some people believe that Ed Wood knew exactly what he was doing: that he *intended* to make "bad" movies in order to make people laugh. There are plenty of good reasons not to buy into that theory, and THE SINISTER URGE is Exhibit A.

PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE, GLEN OR GLENDA, and BRIDE OF THE MONSTER are endearing in their goofy lunacy. This one, though just as bad as the rest of Wood's oeuvre, is mostly just plodding and dull.

Not that there isn't entertainment to be had here, at least for the bad movie connoisseur: my personal favorite is the obvious use of pre-existing (and completely unrelated) footage, shoehorned in on the waste-not want-not principle and "justified" through the use of atrocious dubbing and risible expository dialogue (which takes place *after* the inserted scene, making it even more ludicrous).

But that's not the sort of thing calculated to make a mainstream audience roar with laughter.

I can imagine someone trying to make a movie like PLAN 9. I can't imagine anyone trying to make a movie like this.