Indecent Desires

1968 outsider porn

Rating: 4/20

Plot: A loner finds a doll in the trash, and combined with a magic ring, he's able to use it like some sort of weird sexual voodoo doll.

Message for my wife if she ever reads this: Yes, I did watch this on a porn streaming site, but I had no choice. This is one of the "certified weird" movies on a site that I like (366 Weird Movies, a site that celebrates "the cinematically surreal, bizarre, cult, oddball, fantastique, strange, psychedelic, and the just plain WEIRD!"), and I'm trying to watch all 366 movies on the list. This was the only way I could watch this movie.

Watching Indecent Desires, you'd erroneously guess that the perv responsible A) was a man and B) had a high-heel fetish. Well, the writer/director of this Wood-esque soft porn weirdo fantasy was actually a woman named Doris Wishman. She directed it as Louis Silverman and wrote it as Dawn Whitman, and that's something because can you find another case where an artist used two pseudonyms with the same project? How about two pseudonyms that end with the same three letters as the real name?

She might have a high-heel fetish though, or maybe she's just making this for men with that particular fetish. There are a grand total of two female characters in this movie, and both of them are frequently seen walking around their homes or apartments completely naked except for high heels. So that's something. Anybody actually looking for pornographic material on this porn streaming site I used will likely be very disappointed as there's barely any sex at all. Instead, you get a low-budget movie that barely tops the 70-minute mark that might not have enough ideas for a 10-minute short. The black and white and the sound that was obviously dubbed in later gave this a Beast of Yucca Flats vibe. That's probably a boner-kill on its own, so unless you've got a Tor Johnson and high-heel fetish, this likely isn't going to do much for you.

Sharon Kent played the victim of the creepy loner played by Michael Alaimo, a character made even creepier by not having a single line of dialogue in the entire movie. Kent looks great walking around naked in high heels, and she gets one moment to shine when she has to pretend she's being whipped as Alaimo takes a belt to the doll. Wishman/Silverman/Whitman didn't need special effects there because Kent did a good enough job jerking around. Surprisingly, there was one special effect used when the creepy loner saw Ann and her coworker for the first time and the doll is clumsily superimposed over it.

Michael Alaimo seems like the type of actor who would only be in this one movie, but he has quite a few film and television roles. That includes playing a doctor in Space Jam. So good for that guy.

I'm intrigued by Whitman/Silverman/Wishman and would like to see more of her work. Hopefully, my wife won't check my history.