Mystery Science Theater 3000: THE SINISTER URGE

January 19, 2017 7:37 AM - Season 6, Episode 13

aka The Young and Immoral. "Compulsive Killer Strikes Terror" "Frank... Daring... Shocking Realism" The police are trying to shut down a smutty picture racket while a killer, driven to insanity by pornographic nudity, preys on local women. With short Keeping Clean and Neat: An omniscient disembodied voice tells kids how to wash and perform hygiene. The movie is the last of Ed Wood's movies that Mystery Science Theater would cover. Reactions from the fanbase are mixed: Sampo of Satellite News thinks it's so-so, but some of the commenters, and Mighty Jack, love it. Wood made a softcore version of the movie the next year, and planned a sequel that was never made. YouTube (1h30m) Premiered November 5, 1994.

Episode 613 THE SINISTER URGE
Satellite News - Mighty Jack's Episode Review - War of the Colossal Fan Guide - Annotated MST3K

Movie
Daddy-O's Drive-In Dirt - Rotten Tomatoes (Critics N/A, Viewers 14%) - Wikipedia

IMDB (1960, 2.3 stars)
"A flunky for a porno movie ring starts murdering the smut films' lead actresses."
Directed and written by Edward D. Wood, Jr. Starring Kenne Duncan, Duke Moore and Jean Fontaine.

Short "Keeping Clean and Neat"
IMDB (1956, 2.0 stars)
"A look into the lives of a seventh-grade boy and girl as they go through their morning and evening routines...and why not keeping clean and neat brands them as losers!"
Starring James Brill.

posted by JHarris (6 comments total)

Let's try this again, shall we? We're having a showing for this episode tonight (Thursday) at 9 PM ET/6 PM PT at https://cytu.be/r/Metafilter_MST3KClub, and I promise not to miss it this time, argh. See you there. I hope!
posted by JHarris at 7:49 AM on January 19, 2017

This might be my favorite Ed Wood episode, there's just so many sitting and talking in offices scenes. I'm going to do my best to make it home, but I'm not sure if I'll make it.
posted by hobgadling at 10:17 AM on January 19, 2017 [1 favorite]

I have a very UN-sinister urge to use this to keep me away from the coverage of the pre-inaugural disasterousness. In fact, could we just follow it with a mini-marathon to help us MeFi MiSTies get through the next day or two? I have taken down the specifically-Xmas content from my hosting space, but there remains over 50 video files in the semi-secret folder including Plan 9, Starcrash, Mesa of Lost Women and the totally non-canon Dr. Who, Batman, Hercules and He-Man. (I think I'm going to refer to the Trumpy Administration as 'Non-Canon America')
posted by oneswellfoop at 3:24 PM on January 19, 2017 [1 favorite]

I've thought about this and it seems very good to me. I'm going to throw some things in, if anyone wants to drop by.
posted by JHarris at 6:41 AM on January 20, 2017

Argh, foop cytube is now saying raw files are not accepted except through https! SO ANNOY
posted by JHarris at 6:43 AM on January 20, 2017

Finally, a scathing exposé on the scourge of corn smut.
posted by ckape at 9:37 PM on April 25, 2017