The Smut Picture Racket

Hike up that skirt and show a little leg, we’re entering the world of psycho killers and girl boss pornographers for Episode 13 of The Sin Syndicate Podcast, “The Smut Picture Racket.” This week Gentry and Casey are joined by Toronto-based author Will Sloan, who has written a new critical reappraisal of Edward D. Wood Jr. entitled “Ed Wood: Made in Hollywood USA.” Join us as we discuss Wood’s career heading into the 1960s, as well as his final mainstream film, the sexploitation crime thriller, “The Sinister Urge,” a movie both ahead of and behind the times—anticipating the Roughie by half a decade through its depiction of a nudes-obsessed, knife-wielding sex maniac, while simultanously splicing in awkward footage from an unfinished delinquent youth picture, “Hellborn.” Put on your favorite angora sweater, grab a slice of pie from the cool kids pizza parlour, and come along as we investigate “The Smut Picture Racket.”

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Timestamps:
(00:00:31) Opening
(00:01:39) Pete Perry Updates
(00:06:22) Will Sloan Intro
(00:22:25) The Sinister Urge
(00:31:22) Pornography
(00:38:12) Psycho
(00:49:14) Post 1960
(00:55:43) The Players
(01:06:22) The Wood Estate
(01:17:06) Buy the Book
(01:18:07) Final Thoughts