Twitch of the Death Nerve Charles Perks and Samm Deighan
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Twitch of the Death Nerve is a cult movie podcast from Charles Perks and Samm Deighan. Each episode presents a deep dive into a different film with wide-ranging discussions touching on culture, genre, and the history of psychotronic cinema.
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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. -
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!
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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!
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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. -
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. -
Twitch of the Death Nerve Preview: Let My Puppets Hug
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Customer Reviews
THE BEST
samm is brilliant charles is funny they are fabulous
One of the best genre film podcasts
The absolute destruction this podcast is doing to my Letterboxd watchlist is staggering. Almost every episode, they talk about at least 5 movies that I need to see and add to my watchlst and they always end up being incredible. Samm, Charlie, and Jon are full of knowledge and have a great dynamic together and always make me laugh. I can't recommend Twitch Of The Death Nerve enough.
One Weak Link
Love the two other hosts but this Charles guy is exhausting to listen to and doesn’t bring anything interesting to the conversation. Along with swearing every other word and steamrolling the other hosts to ramble incoherently. Please get rid of him