Eros + Massacre

Happy belated birthday to Mario Bava, who was born on July 31 (much like me). This is a loaded episode: guest host Bill Ackerman, from Supporting Characters podcast and a number of commentaries and other blu-ray special features, shares my love of Bava and his final feature film, Shock (1977). We talk about: Shock  and its relationship to Ovidio Assonitis’s Beyond the Door  (1974), to which...

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For this episode, I was joined by Adam Torel, the owner of Third Window Films , a blu-ray label focusing specifically on more unusual Japanese cinema. We talked about the ins and outs of running a blu-ray label, working in Japan, the complexities of releasing more obscure Japanese films, and so much more. Even if you aren’t a huge fan of Japanese films, there’s so much detail in here a...

This Fourth of July, I wanted to celebrate a real American hero and who better than one of the greatest Americans to ever do it — Rudy Ray Moore. My friend Klon Waldrip joined me to talk about everything from Rudy’s entrepreneurial spirit (he printed and sold his own records… in the ’70s), his important role as a sexual anarchist, and his underground cinema, focusing mostly...

Episode two is all about one of my favorite experimental Japanese New Wave films and I’m so grateful to my guest, film analyst Celeste de la Cabra, for agreeing to discuss this one with me. The film’s director, Toshio Matsumoto, has become one of my favorites in recent years and is criminally underrated, so we also spend a little time getting into his other work. Funeral Parade of Rose...

It’s heeeere! I’m Samm Deighan and I’m beyond excited to launch the first episode of my new podcast, Eros + Massacre. Chris Haskell from They Live on Film podcast kindly joined me for the first episode, where we talk all about one of our mutual favorite underrated directors, Michele Soavi, and focus on his four key horror films from the late ’80s and ’90s: Stage Frigh...

Check out this short preview of Samm Deighan’s new podcast EROS + MASSACRE! Thanks!