Satan was a Lady was Doris Wishman’s first foray into hardcore pornography. Up until then, she had made many “roughie” movies, but none of them crossed the line into full-on penetration. I tried to be as forgiving as I could seeing as Doris was just getting her feet (no pun intended) wet in the genre. Even with that in mind, it’s kind of tough to sit through in some places.
Terry (Annie Sprinkle) catches her little sister Claudia (Bree Anthony) engaging in pre-marital sex with her fiancé Victor (Tony Richards). She then goes running into the arms of Bobby (Bobby Astyr) for a little bondage action. Later, it’s revealed Terry is also romancing Victor behind her sister’s back.
Other than Sprinkle’s bondage scene, the sex scenes are mostly cliché (there’s even a part where lovers bang on a bear skin rug in front of a fireplace for God’s sake) and unsexy, which is the main problem, seeing as this is a sex flick and all. It doesn’t help that one of the scenes plays out in a long loop, unapologetically replaying the same footage again and again. Even with the engaging presence of Sprinkle, they are mostly lackluster. It’s telling that the best part of the movie is Sprinkle’s solo scene where she pleasures herself. I have a feeling Doris did very little directing on this sequence. She just put the camera down and let Sprinkle do all the work. In fact, if it wasn’t for Annie’s sex appeal, Satan was a Lady would’ve been completely forgettable.
This isn’t one of Wishman’s best, but there are plenty of her trademarks on display: Awkward phone conversations, odd dubbing and voiceovers (that’s Doris’s voice as the characters’ “thoughts”), the recycling of stock footage from her old nudie movies, pointless scenes of people walking in Central Park to help pad out the running time, a long negative image sex scene, and of course, feet (although, quite honestly, not as many as I was expecting). It’s all pretty much plotless and dull until the completely random Diabolique-inspired twist ending occurs. Since there had been so little plot leading up to the big reveal, it was hard to care about the outcome either way.
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