Watch The Sinister Urge (1961) Free Online

Release Date: 1961

Cast: Reed Howes, Conrad Brooks, Jeanne Willardson, Dino Fantini, Duke Moore, Harvey B. Dunn, Kenne Duncan, Joan Fontaine

Categories: Movies, Crime Fiction, Horror, Psychological thriller, Black-and-white, Crime Drama

The Sinister Urge is a 1961 crime drama film that was written and directed by Edward D. Wood, Jr. The film was featured in episode 613 of the cult television show, Mystery Science Theater 3000. The film revolves around a series of murders of young women. The killer, Dirk, works for a pornographer named Johnny Ryde. It is outright stated that Dirk's impulsive murders are a direct result of viewing pornographic pictures and films. This is stated both by Ryde's boss, Gloria Henderson, and the police (represented by Lt. Carson, Sgt. Stone and Officer Kline). Several subplots attempt to emerge... MORE

The Sinister Urge is a 1961 crime drama film that was written and directed by Edward D. Wood, Jr. The film was featured in episode 613 of the cult television show, Mystery Science Theater 3000. The film revolves around a series of murders of young women. The killer, Dirk, works for a pornographer named Johnny Ryde. It is outright stated that Dirk's impulsive murders are a direct result of viewing pornographic pictures and films. This is stated both by Ryde's boss, Gloria Henderson, and the police (represented by Lt. Carson, Sgt. Stone and Officer Kline). Several subplots attempt to emerge during the course of the film: the ongoing police investigation into underground pornographic distribution (in one scene, a fight breaks out between two rivals, one of whom is played uncredited by Wood himself); Ryde's attempts to shoot porn (accompanied by his director Jaffe, an elderly man who is somewhat elfin in appearance); Gloria's rising concern about the out-of-control Dirk, which comes to a head when her overlords in "the Syndicate" order her to remove Dirk permanently; and in an obvious attempt to interject pathos into the film, the tribulations of a young girl from a small Midwestern LESS