History Film / TheSinisterUrge

* PsychoForHire: Dirk.

* GoodCopBadCop: Used by Johnny and Gloria to recruit Ethel. Gloria stomps in fuming and angry, yelling about how she's wrong for project and stupid; reminding her of how much Ethel is in debt to her and threatening to go after her parents for the money. Johnny, who Ethel already likes because he's been kind and generous and playing to her aspirations, is reassuring that it's best if she cooperates because it'll be easier and everyone will make more money this way.

* ConvictionByContradiction: At the end of the film, Gloria shoots Johnny for asking to meet her [[TheManBehindTheMan backers]] -- except that she ''actually'' shot Dirk, who'd threatened Johnny earlier and shanked him while Gloria was getting her gun. Gloria then calls the police to report that Dirk had shot Johnny, and talks herself into a corner by the time they finally show her Dirk's body (and Johnny's body stuffed in the bushes).

* DirtyCoward: In the final act, Johnny tries to do and say anything that will save only his skin. [[spoiler:Both Dirk and Gloria see through it, but Dirk gets him first]].

* FelonyMisdemeanor: Apparently, taking pictures of girls in bathing suits is an arrestable offense.

* TemptingFate: Letting someone you know goes AxCrazy when they see porn work around a porn racket.

* AuthorAvatar: Johnny Ride is Ed Wood, with the RealitySubtext that right after ''The Sinister Urge'', Wood's projects were all softcore porn. It makes Johnny's, "I look at these and remember a time when I made ''good'' movies," line hit a little hard for fans of Wood.

'''''The Sinister Urge''''' is another Creator/EdWood exploitation piece from 1961. This time, the particular vice covered is pornography, and the attendant evils that come from it.

* DawsonCasting: The, ahem, "teenagers" at the pizza shop.

* OffscreenTeleportation: Dirk (on foot) beating Johnny (driving) back to Gloria's place.

For the ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' version, please go to the [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S06E13TheSinisterUrge episode recap page]].

* ConvictionByContradiction: At the end of the film, Gloria shoots Johnny for asking to meet her [[TheManBehindTheMan backers]] -- except that she ''actually'' shot Dirk, who'd threatened Johnny earlier and shanked him while Gloria was getting her gun. Gloria then calls the police to report that she'd had to shoot Johnny, and talks herself into a corner by the time they finally show her Dirk's body (and Johnny's body stuffed in the bushes).

* AuthorAvatar: Johnny Ride is Ed Wood, with the RealitySubtext that right after ''The Sinister Urge'', Wood's projects were all softcore porn.

** Ride's office is even fastooned with posters for ''Film/JailBait'', ''Film/BrideOfTheMonster'' and ''TheViolentYears''.

* AllCrimesAreEqual: Making porn, murder, kidnapping, same thing!

** Ride's office is even fastooned with posters for ''Jail Bait'', ''Film/BrideOfTheMonster'' and ''TheViolentYears''.

* StockFootage: The pizza shop was footage from ''Rock and Roll Hell'', an unfinished Wood project. Wood spliced in Dirk litening in to an ADR, off-camera conversation between two characters.

* BrawnHilda / HotAmazon: Mary Smith, the girl Johnny coerces into doing porn (well, posing fully clothed in partly-diaphanous flowing robes.)

Not to be confused with a Music/RobZombie album of the same name.

* LegacyCharacter: Kline the cop appeared in other Wood films, including ''Plan9FromOuterSpace''.

* BrawnHilda / HotAmazon: YourMileageMayVary on Mary Smith, the girl Johnny coerces into doing porn (well, posing fully clothed in partly-diaphanous flowing robes.)

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous: Apparently, taking pictures of girls in bathing suits is an arrestable offense.