Satan was a Lady

USA 2001
produced by
Beau Gillespie, Pelusa Gorsd (executive) for Boomshadow Pictures, Satan was a Lady Inc
directed by Doris Wishman
starring Honey Lauren, Glyn Styler, Edge, Hans Lohl, Carlos Velazquez, Laudet Torres, Anne Case, Al Reidel, Rene Coman, Victoria Morrison, Kerry Johnston, Lindsey Amodeo, Tabatha DeMercado, Arturo Reyes, Lourdes Graves, Harry Fredrick, Greg Gillingham
written by Doris Wishman, music by Glyn Styler, Rene Coman, Jeff Treffinger, songs by Glyn Styler

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Cleo (Honey Lauren) is a downright bitch: not only is she a prostitute, she is also a hooker of the kind that robs her clients after rendering them unconscious or blackmailing them - and her major blackmailing victim is John King (Edge), with whom she had a sadomasochistic session.

Then though, Cleo falls in love with Brett (Hans Lohl), King's son, and suddenly she has to find a way to on one hand get enough money to no longer have to be a hooker, and to get rid of her past for good. So she kills her no-good, abusive and thieving musician boyfriend (Glyn Styler), tries to squeeze even more money out of King even by trying to make his secretary (Laudet Torres) her accomplice and by phoning King's wife and Brett's mum (Anne Case) and making some hints about her hubby's shenanigans - just to push King's panic button ... but this is where it goes wrong, mum has a heart attack, and Cleo's conscience kicks in because of that, and she tells Brett everything - who gets so upset he tries to kill her and is only stopped when she kills him instead. Then King enters the scene and strangles Cleo to death. End.

The story of this film is of course pure trash, and not even from the funny side of the trash spectrum, and most of the actors are rather wooden and not really up to their task (except for Glyn Styler, who gives a rather warped performance as the warped musician). What saves the day though is Doris Wishman's directorial style that has been described as purely incompetent but in this film comes across as unusual and fresh: The camera is shaky, some of the pictures are out of focus, sometimes the camera seems to just wander off and lose itself with unimportant details that have little relation to the story - all things you simply wouldn't come to expect from a piece of trash like this. This all complemented by Glyn Styler's elegiac blues catapult the film into an universe all of its own. That said, Satan was a Lady is far from a masterpiece, at 85 minutes it's about 20 minutes to long and seems awfully repetitive towards the end,and in some of the racier scenes one gets the feeling that the film makes promises but doesn't deliver - but overall, it's still well worth watching, at least if you love the unusual ... and wouldn't you know it, at times the film is even reminiscent of David Lynch - which is something nobody would have ever suspected from nudie-veteran Doris Wishman.

By the way, considering this is a Doris Wishman-feature, there is remarkably little nudity in this film, and hardly ever beyond topless level. Especially when compared to Wishman's 1975-film Satan was a Lady - which was hardcore all the way and to which this film actually bears no resemblance - this might come as a surprise.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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