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Twitch of the Death Nerve Episode 58: The Sweetest Taboo ft. Erica Schultz
May 17, 2024
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May 11, 2024
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Twitch of the Death Nerve Episode 57: Soccermomsploitation ft. Rob Weychert
May 6, 2024
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Twitch of the Death Nerve Episode 56: Return of the Texas Psychorama ft. Jon Dzwonar & Erica Schultz
Apr 22, 2024
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Twitch of the Death Nerve Preview: The Pleasure Principle Superhighway
Apr 18, 2024
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| 5/17/24 | Twitch of the Death Nerve Episode 58: The Sweetest Taboo ft. Erica Schultz | Our dear friend Erica Schultz is back on the show — coincidentally right around Mother’s Day — to talk about her book, The Sweetest Taboo: An Unapologetic Guide To Child Kills In Film (which you can still buy through that link if you haven’t ordered it yet, though get on it because it’s selling like hot cakes). We talk about how the book came to be, what it was like to watch A THOUSAND movies where kids get killed on screen, the parameters of the book (no true crime!), and the ins and outs of self-publishing. We also forced Erica to help us come up with a collective list of our five favorite movies featuring child death, truly an impossible task. And at this point many of you know Erica and her work already, but you should also listen to her podcast, Unsung Horrors. As always, pretty please rate, review, and share. You can also find us on Apple and Spotify and please follow us on Instagram and drop us a line if you want to join our Discord. Also check out Essex Coffee Roasters (enter code CINEPUNX for 10% off). We can’t thank all of you enough for your support. | — | ||||||
| 5/11/24 | Twitch of the Death Nerve Preview: (Staten) Island of Lost Souls | What force on earth could compel us to the suburbs of New Jersey and Staten Island to watch movies? Learn more by following us on Patreon to unlock this full episode and instantly access our entire back catalogue of bonus episodes, video essays, written essays, and several of Samm’s ongoing solo podcasts. Support Twitch of the Death Nerve and help us keep the show ad free and on the airwaves forever! | — | ||||||
| 5/6/24 | Twitch of the Death Nerve Episode 57: Soccermomsploitation ft. Rob Weychert | We’ve gotten a lot of requests to do an episode on the great Stalked By My Doctor series, starring the absolute king Eric Roberts, and we finally delivered. Lifetime Channel thriller enthusiast Rob Weychert joined Charles and Samm to talk about this wild trend in made for TV movies and we honestly had the best time. We discuss everything from historical origins for this subgenre, how these films should be seen as modern day exploitation movies, the ins and outs of stalking, the career of mastermind director Doug Campbell, and much more. There’s even a special surprise segment at the end engineered by Rob! Read Rob’s amazing blog post about how and why he created a bonkers game based on Lifetime Channel movies. As always, pretty please rate, review, and share. You can also find us on Apple and Spotify and please follow us on Instagram and drop us a line if you want to join our Discord. Also check out Essex Coffee Roasters (enter code CINEPUNX for 10% off). We can’t thank all of you enough for your support. | — | ||||||
| 4/22/24 | Twitch of the Death Nerve Episode 56: Return of the Texas Psychorama ft. Jon Dzwonar & Erica Schultz | The latest Death Nerve is here, and it’s a real throwback! Acting as a spiritual successor to our Texas Psychorama episode from a couple years back, Death Nerve founding member and true dyed in the wool freakshow Jon Dzwonar is back with a fiendish 6 movie marathon! Unfortunately, Samm got stuck in the hospital visiting her catatonic friend Patrick, so she’s sitting this one out. Don’t worry, friends, Patrick still lives, and Samm will be back on Death Nerve next week. Also featured on this episode is Erica Shultz, host of the Unsung Horrors podcast and author of The Sweetest Taboo: An Unapologetic Guide to Child Kills in Film. She helps us work through an insane line up of mystery movies that include a hicksploitation film, a castrationsploitation Category-III flick, and a sleazy NY movie just to name a few! The episode is a fun and breezy walk down Cult Cinema Lane, hope y’all dig it! As always, pretty please rate, review, and share. You can also find us on Apple and Spotify and please follow us on Instagram and drop us a line if you want to join our Discord. Also check out Essex Coffee Roasters (enter code CINEPUNX for 10% off). We can’t thank all of you enough for your support. | — | ||||||
| 4/18/24 | Twitch of the Death Nerve Preview: The Pleasure Principle Superhighway | In this episode, Samm gives an impassioned argument for why you should watch as many Kenji Misumi movies as possible and Charles dons a tinfoil hat to explore the connection between the death drive and ’00s disaster movies. What the hell does that mean? Learn more by following us on Patreon to unlock this full episode and instantly access our entire back catalogue of bonus episodes, video essays, written essays, and several of Samm’s ongoing solo podcasts. Support Twitch of the Death Nerve and help us keep the show ad free and on the airwaves forever! | — | ||||||
| 4/10/24 | Twitch of the Death Nerve Preview: Immaculate X Benedetta: The Nun Empire | How am I supposed to relate to a character who has CGI blood coursing through their veins? Find out the answer to this question for the ages by following us on Patreon to unlock this full episode and instantly access our entire back catalogue of bonus episodes, video essays, written essays, and several of Samm’s ongoing solo podcasts. Support Twitch of the Death Nerve and help us keep the show ad free and on the airwaves forever! | — | ||||||
| 4/6/24 | Twitch of the Death Nerve Episode 55: Spice World ft. Mike White | Dune has been one of Samm’s favorite books since childhood and Charles has become similarly obsessed (maybe even more so), so it was inevitable that we were going to do cover it at some point, because… the spice must flow. For this episode — which covers everything from Herbert’s first few books to David Lynch’s adaptation and the two Villeneuve films — we knew we had to get Mike White as our co-host. Most of you are already familiar with his work as the relentlessly prolific host of The Projection Booth, where he’s already done several Dune-related episodes, but he also contributed a commentary for the Arrow blu-ray of David Lynch’s Dune. This is a pretty wild discussion that covers a lot of ground, but it might help to go in with at least a basic knowledge of Dune’s plot and some of the key terms. As always, pretty please rate, review, and share. You can also find us on Apple and Spotify and please follow us on Instagram and drop us a line if you want to join our Discord. Also check out Essex Coffee Roasters (enter code CINEPUNX for 10% off). We can’t thank all of you enough for your support. | — | ||||||
| 3/17/24 | Twitch of the Death Nerve Episode 54: The Salò Episode ft. Annie Rose Malamet | From the inception of Twitch of the Death Nerve, an episode on Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) seemed inevitable. It’s a film that has had an incredible influence on Samm’s life, plus we got to see it on 35mm recently at a sold out screening in NYC. Luckily we found the perfect guest, Annie Rose Malamet, who shares Samm’s deep love of and admiration for the Marquis de Sade. Many of you are already familiar with Annie’s work, especially her wonderful podcast Girls, Guts & Giallo, but please follow her on Patreon if you aren’t already! If you’re unfamiliar with Salò, you might want to watch the film and come back to this episode, which doesn’t cover a lot of introductory material, but is a rich discussion that ranges from Italian fascism to WWII trauma, political violence in the ’70s, Pasolini’s sexuality and its potential impact as a queer film, how it remains relevant, and how its lessons can help us grapple with genocide unfolding in front of the world today. As always, pretty please rate, review, and share. You can also find us on Apple and Spotify and please follow us on Instagram and drop us a line if you want to join our Discord. Also check out Essex Coffee Roasters (enter code CINEPUNX for 10% off). We can’t thank all of you enough for your support. | — | ||||||
| 2/9/24 | Twitch of the Death Nerve Preview: Let My Puppets Hug | Follow us on Patreon to unlock this full episode and instantly access our entire back catalogue of bonus episodes, video essays, written essays, and several of Samm’s ongoing solo podcasts. Support Twitch of the Death Nerve and help us keep the show ad free and on the airwaves forever! | — | ||||||
| 2/7/24 | Twitch of the Death Nerve Episode 53: Patrick Tam & the Hong Kong New Wave ft. Bobby Rodriguez | For this episode, we’re diving in to the Hong Kong New Wave through the work of underrated auteur Patrick Tam. Dear Death Nerve friend Bobby Rodriguez joins to help break down the history of political turmoil in Hong Kong in the ’60s as it relates to the birth of the New Wave. We talk about its origins in television, how the Hong Kong New Wave is different from other arthouse movements, and how it reimagines popular and cult genre tropes. We also share our love for Tam’s Love Massacre (1981) and My Heart is That Eternal Rose (1989) and talk about his influence on Wong Kar-wai. Bobby was kind enough to share her extensive notes here — and she made us a Cantopop playlist of cover songs! As always, pretty please rate, review, and share. You can also find us on Apple and Spotify and please follow us on Instagram and drop us a line if you want to join our Discord. Also check out Essex Coffee Roasters (enter code CINEPUNX for 10% off). We can’t thank all of you enough for your support. | — | ||||||
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| 1/10/24 | Twitch of the Death Nerve Preview: 2023 Was All Bad | Follow us on Patreon to unlock this full episode and instantly access our entire back catalogue of bonus episodes, video essays, written essays, and several of Samm’s ongoing solo podcasts. Support Twitch of the Death Nerve and help us keep the show ad free and on the airwaves forever! | — | ||||||
| 1/8/24 | Twitch of the Death Nerve Episode 52: 2023 Wasn’t All Bad | Happy New Year! Charles and Samm had a lot of fun talking through their respective favorite films of the year: this includes both their top 10 films watched for the first time, but a few runners up and a run through of some Letterboxd stats like top actors and top directors. As a result this episode is all over the place in terms of geography, genre, and decade (though we frequently return to Japan), but it was an incredible year of new-to-us movies. May 2024 be as rewarding! What were your favorite new films and first time watches from last year? | — | ||||||
| 12/24/23 | Twitch of the Death Nerve Preview: A Kaiju Christmas Miracle | Follow us on Patreon to unlock this full episode and instantly access our entire back catalogue of bonus episodes, video essays, written essays, and several of Samm’s ongoing solo podcasts. Support Twitch of the Death Nerve and help us keep the show ad free and on the airwaves forever! And have a happy holidays!!! | — | ||||||
| 11/23/23 | Twitch of the Death Nerve Preview: Questions Part Deux | Follow us on Patreon to unlock this full episode and instantly access our entire back catalogue of bonus episodes, video essays, written essays, and several of Samm’s ongoing solo podcasts. Support Twitch of the Death Nerve and help us keep the show ad free and on the airwaves forever! | — | ||||||
| 11/22/23 | Twitch of the Death Nerve Episode 51: Questions? Questions! | We’ve been wanting to do a Death Nerve Q&A episode for awhile and we got so many great questions from social media, the Patreon, and our Discord. We got to talk about everything from rape revenge movies to dream blu-ray releases, favorite books, under-seen films of the 1940s, Stalked By My Doctor, why Samm dislikes New Hollywood, Stalked By My Doctor, and so much more. If you don’t hear your question answered in this episode, check out the upcoming bonus episode in the Patreon, which features part two of our discussion. And thanks again for all the genuinely thoughtful (and some very silly and fun) questions. As always, pretty please rate, review, and share. You can also find us on Apple and Spotify and please follow us on Instagram and drop us a line if you want to join our Discord. Also check out Essex Coffee Roasters (enter code CINEPUNX for 10% off). We can’t thank all of you enough for your support. | — | ||||||
| 11/8/23 | Twitch of the Death Nerve Episode 50: Horrorthon 2023 | That’s another Halloween season and another Exhumed Films 24-hour Horrorthon in the books. This year’s Horrorthon was particularly delightful, because so many of our friends and listeners were in attendance. Harry, Dan, and Jesse from Exhumed Films had a packed lineup this year and we break it down, film by film, in the latest Death Nerve episode. Charles and I both got COVID at Horrorthon, which is why this episode is a little late — also fair warning because we sound pretty delirious in the episode, though I suppose that’s to be expected for every Horrorthon episode… This is also our 50th episode! We can’t thank all of you enough for your support. As always, pretty please rate, review, and share. You can also find us on Apple and Spotify and please follow us on Instagram and drop us a line if you want to join our Discord. Also check out Essex Coffee Roasters (enter code CINEPUNX for 10% off). | — | ||||||
| 10/17/23 | Twitch of the Death Nerve Episode 49: Slasher Season | This Halloween, Charles and Samm dive into one of the best cozy horror subgenres — the slasher film. This episode breezes through 10 of our favorite underrated slasher movies, with some probably predictable choices and others that are more niche. We also talk about what exactly constitutes the slasher genre and how it intersects with and differs from other subgenres like the serial killer thriller, Hicksploitation, home invasion film, etc. And speaking of home invasions, keep an ear out for our first ever surprise guest on a Death Nerve episode. Happy Halloween and thanks as always for supporting the show. Pretty please rate, review, and share! You can also find us on Apple and Spotify and please follow us on Instagram. Also check out Essex Coffee Roasters (enter code CINEPUNX for 10% off). | — | ||||||
| 10/6/23 | Twitch of the Death Nerve Preview: Asperger Auteur Theory ft. Bill Ackerman | Follow us on Patreon to unlock this full episode and instantly access our entire back catalogue of bonus episodes, video essays, written essays, and several of Samm’s ongoing solo podcasts. Support Twitch of the Death Nerve and help us keep the show ad free and on the airwaves forever! | — | ||||||
| 7/22/23 | Twitch of the Death Nerve Episode 48: Are You There God? It’s Me, Jamie Gillis – ft. Shawn Porter | The latest Twitch of the Death Nerve episode celebrates one of America’s greatest heroes — hardcore icon Jamie Gillis. Charles and Samm are joined by gentleman pervert Shawn Porter to discuss Jamie’s incredible career, the Golden Age of Porn, Radley Metzger, Water Power, Gerard Damiano, woods porn, quaaludes, kink, and so much more. Shawn runs the incredible body modification archive Sacred Debris, an important resource that document the history of tattooing, piercing, other body mods, and focuses on a lot of folks in the queer and leather communities, of which Shawn is also part. Really the perfect guest to celebrate Jamie Gillis. He even had some Jamie Gillis Appreciation Society shirts made for the occasion (in brown and yellow, naturally). And as Samm mentioned in the episode, friend of the show Lee Buford made a tote bag out of Jamie Gillis’s nasty business card, which Shawn and Samm both sport. They’re incredible. Thanks as always for supporting the show. Pretty please rate, review, and share! You can also find us on Apple and Spotify and please follow us on Instagram. Also check out Essex Coffee Roasters (enter code CINEPUNX for 10% off). | — | ||||||
| 7/1/23 | Twitch of the Death Nerve Episode 47: Exfest 2023 ft. Ian Galloway | Every year in early summer for over a decade now, Exhumed Films holds their annual 35mm exploitation movie marathon, Exfest. We covered this event on the show last year and we’re back to talk about 12+ hours of exploitation cinema. To discuss this year’s marathon, which was held on June 10th at the Colonial Theater in Phoenixville, PA, Charles and Samm were joined by Ian Galloway, owner of beloved Philly record store Beautiful World. We recorded first thing the next morning, so we sound pretty deranged, but we had the time of our lives. This year might truly be the best Exfest lineup yet, and you’ll get to hear us talk about everything from Simon Yam and Black revolutionary cinema to Shaw Brothers, shooting up cocaine, Greek mythology, and of course PRIDE. Thanks as always for supporting the show. Pretty please rate, review, and share! You can also find us on Apple and Spotify and please follow us on Instagram. Also check out Essex Coffee Roasters (enter code CINEPUNX for 10% off). | — | ||||||
| 6/16/23 | Twitch of the Death Nerve Episode 46: Shot on Video with Michael & Brewce | Our latest episode is about shot-on-video (SOV) horror, as well as all things regional and very, very low budget. Divisive, underground, and often mind-melting, SOV horror movies exist in a world unto themselves and outside the bounds of good taste. Joining us to discuss a slew of no-budget oddities are Philly-based filmmakers Michael DiFrancesco and Brewce Longo. Mike D recently joined us on our sword and sorcery episode, and Brewce has been long time comrade and friend of the show. If you enjoy the episode, definitely check out our guests’ two recent SOV films: the satanic metalhead acidtrip Blood Sick Psychosis (2022), AND the upcoming necrophile splatterfest, A Corpse for Christmas, which will be released next month (just in time for Christmas in July). Look out for premiers in July in Philly, NYC, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Chicago, NJ, and additional cities around the US. Find out those dates and more about the new movie on Instagram at @bloodsickproductions, buy their first movie here, and follow Michael on Instagram at @murkdeep. Thanks as always for supporting the show. Pretty please rate, review, and share! You can also find us on Apple and Spotify and please follow us on Instagram. Also check out Essex Coffee Roasters (enter code CINEPUNX for 10% off). | — | ||||||
| 6/5/23 | TWITCH OF THE DEATH NERVE BONUS EPISODE UNLOCKED: A Marxist, a historian, and a film producer walk into a bar… | Usually these Patreon-only bonus Happy Hour episodes exist behind a paywall, but we decided to unlock this one to the general public because it’s just so much dang “fun.” Charles Smith III, who was the guest on our previous episode covering the ongoing WGA strike, hangs back for the Happy Hour to drink some cheap whiskey and discuss the tribulations of independent filmmaking, his work as a producer and professor, and what it was like to study under director Peter Medak in film school. But the real heart of the episode is rousing political discussion about work and hierarchies, not as an abstract concept, but as the lived reality of pretty much everyone. Though the discussion isn’t always strictly film related, this Happy Hour episode felt meaningful to us, so here it is unlocked and un-paywalled. If you like our show and want extra content, please for the love of god sign up to Samm Deighan’s Patreon! Not only will you get access to all of our bonus Happy Hours, but you’ll also be able to listen to Samm’s series on Jean-Luc Goddard, read tons of articles, and hear one off audio treats. We can’t possibly express just how much we appreciate all of our supporters on Patreon. It’s truly keeping the lights on and our extremely large cat fed. It also helps keep Death Nerve 100% ad-free. But to be honest, we could make negative money a month and we still wouldn’t run ads. Fuck that. Thanks as always for supporting the show. Pretty please rate, review, and share! You can also find us on Apple and Spotify and please follow us on Instagram. Also check out Essex Coffee Roasters (enter code CINEPUNX for 10% off). | — | ||||||
| 5/27/23 | Twitch of the Death Nerve Episode 45: ChatGPT Wars — The Writers Strike Back ft. Charles Smith III | For this episode, Charles and Samm are joined by our friend Charles Smith III, a local producer, director, film teacher, and proud union member. We discuss the ongoing writers strike, why it’s so important, what the core demands are, and larger issues related to strikes and class war within the entertainment industry. We briefly talk about a few films centered on strikes, because of course I had to bring up Gian Maria Volonté, and Mao has something of a cameo as well. You can find Charles Smith lecturing about film production at Rowan University, Drexel University, and Buck County Community College. He directed the Philly-shot superhero satire Zeroes, produced the gnarly horror film Neighbor, and is currently producing the nationally syndicated PBS kids’ show Albie’s Elevator. He’s also a member of the Producer’s Guild of America and loves setting off fireworks. | — | ||||||
| 5/8/23 | Twitch of the Death Nerve Episode 44: Cauldron Stirrings with Jesse and Brian | We’re baaaack with a really fun, somewhat raucous conversation with Jesse Nelson and Brian Izzi from Cauldron Films. Charles and Samm gush about their recent fancy pants edition of The City of the Living Dead, and chat with them about some of their other great releases like Contraband and American Rickshaw, what it’s like to run a boutique blu-ray label, genie movies, Italians in Florida, and other insanity. We also dip into Jesse’s background with Exhumed Films and his long-time, beloved movie retail site Diabolik DVD. Thanks as always for supporting the show. Pretty please rate, review, and share! You can also find us on Apple and Spotify and please follow us on Instagram. Check out Essex Coffee Roasters (enter code CINEPUNX for 10% off). | — | ||||||
| 4/18/23 | Twitch of the Death Nerve Episode 43: Sword and Sorcery Spectacular ft. Michael DiFrancesco | For the latest Twitch of the Death Nerve, Charles and Samm were joined by one of the best people on the planet, Michael DiFrancesco, to talk about one of the best subgenres on the planet, sword and sorcery movies. We set out on an epic journey from the origins of the subgenre in Greek myth, pulp literature, and Italian sword and sandal films, through to a discussion of our favorite ’80s sword and sorcery films. We talk about everything from Albert Pyun and Conan the Barbarian through to the GOAT, Conquest, to the insanity of She, and so many more. Michael is an encyclopedia of cult movie knowledge and is also a musician and filmmaker. You can find him on Instagram at @murkdeep. Check out his first film, the SOV acidfest Blood Sick Psychosis, and I’ll share news about the release of his upcoming necrophilia film, A Corpse for Christmas, as it becomes available. Thanks as always for supporting the show. Pretty please rate, review, and share! You can also find us on Apple and Spotify and please follow us on Instagram. Check out Essex Coffee Roasters (enter code CINEPUNX for 10% off). | — | ||||||
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6 placements across 5 markets.
Chart Positions
6 placements across 5 markets.