Doris Wishman

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Dildo Heaven is the story of three girls who hope to seduce their bosses. It also features a Peeping Tom who will do anything to prove himself worthy of the three ladies’ attention. It is a soft-core sex comedy that has played some underground and cult film festivals but is still awaiting a video release. Final edit was completed after Satan Was a Lady. It had its official world premiere at the New York Underground Film Festival in . From the advertisements: “Wild, wicked and wanton!”

Wishman’s last film completed 95 percent of its principal photography in June of . Wishman wrote detailed notes on a few additional shots, a planned John Waters cameo and editing instructions during the last few weeks of her life (she died August 10, ). Her friend, biographer and co-producer Michael Bowen and website designer David B. Wilson expects the film to have its world premiere by the end of .

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Honey Lauren plays a stripper and somewhat sadistic prostitute who wants to make a bigger score and leave her seedy life behind. She’s not impressed with her struggling con-man musician boyfriend (Styler) and she decides to blackmail a rich businessman client of hers (Edge), but things don’t work out as smoothly as she hoped. Wishman’s trademarks find their way into this somewhat slickly produced, very well paced, low-budget entertaining film. Call this one a Wishman version of a modern erotic film noir complete with a memorable femme fatale. The three songs in the film are quite good! Its world premiere was in Florida on March 9, . It won a special Jury Prize at the New York Underground Film Festival. The DVD features behind the scenes footage of Doris Wishman and crew at work. From the advertisements: “Evil comes in many shapes, she just had the best one”, “She worked the corner of Sin and Shame!” (5

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Doris’ second feature was filmed partly at The Coral Castle (in Homestead, Florida), which is a sprawling mansion, built from Coral rocks and has an interesting history itself. The film concerns the exploits of two rocket scientists who blast off to the moon in a toy rocket ship. A three million dollar inheritance financed the expedition. They sit right next to each other but talk to each other via radio mikes and headphones, and they sleep through their landing. When they get out of the rocket shop in goofy pajama-type outfits, they find an area on the moon that looks a lot like a nudist camp in Florida. The woman are topless with bathing suit bottoms, they have fuzzy pipe cleaner antennas and speak telepathically to each other. Wishman makes a cameo in the first scene. You’ll see a theater marquee’ that says ‘Hideout in the Sun’ on it. Shelby Livingston is one of the moon cuties and would later have a bigger part in H.G. Lewis’ Maniacs

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Doris had been making this direct to video feature for about seven years. She may have shot some footage for it in the mid-s but most of it was filmed in and . It took her a while to raise the money and devote the time needed to edit it. Along the way she met Beau Gillespie who was struggling to edit his low budget film. Gillespie decided to produce Wishman’s next film about the same time Elite was preparing A Night to Dismember for DVD release, which led to the commentary track recording that re-united Wishman and C. Davis Smith. They decided to try and work together again after Wishman finished the film for Gillespie.

Once-nerdy Arthur (Fernandez) has turned into a man who has strangled his fiancé, and raped other women. A detective (Hunter) discovers women wearing gold earrings make Arthur psychotic. Why? Well you see Arthur was jealous of his very sexually active and well-endowed friend Felix who also went crazy for gold earrings. Felix died and Arthur blackmailed a doctor into performing The Amazing Transplant. Seems men really do think with their penis. Wild Wishman outing that predates films that covered similar themes such as Percy (Ralph Thomas, ). (Note: actual on screen credits were not available to verify credits.) (2) and (3

Doris asked her cameraman C. Davis Smith for a plot idea. Smith had seen Suddenly (Lewis Allen, ) with Frank Sinatra, and told Doris the plot of that film. From this, Doris created an ultra low-budget film. Two assassins claiming to be plumbers hold two lesbian roommates and their visiting friend hostage, while they wait to assassinate the prime minister of ‘Netia’ from the apartment window. This means we have time for showers, lesbian lovemaking, strip-teases, whilst women are whipped, beaten, raped and even killed. Then there is the dream sequence, which involves characters in drag that is something which must be seen. (2