Daughters of Darkness

Kat & Samm delve into Joe D’Amato’s gloriously perverse horrific world, with a focus on Emanuelle’s Revenge; a film which mixes erotica with themes of revenge and cannibalism.

Samm Deighan and Kat Ellinger discuss Walerian Borowczyk’s 1978 masterpiece of nunsploitation whimsy which features all the glorious ecstatic yoga, sex food, and bush.

Kat and Samm return to talk about Walerian Borowczyk’s transgressive take on Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic Gothic tale of duality, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, exploring one of the most perverse and empowering adaptations of the ...

Kat and Samm return to explore the overlooked work of director John Hayes, in typically outrageous fashion. While many know Hayes’ horror efforts Dream No Evil (1971) and Grave of the Vampire (1972), his extensive work in exploitation, sexploitation, and ...

Kat and Samm are back at long last to discuss the final films of beloved producer and director William Castle. Though he’s generally celebrated for gimmicky horror classics like The Tingler (1959) and House on Haunted Hill (1959), in this ...

Kat and Samm return from a lengthy hiatus with this personal, boisterous episode that explores desire, consent, and sexuality by comparing two very different films: Nelson Lyon’s forgotten erotic classic, The Telephone Book (1971), and Paul Verhoeven’s challenging rape-revenge drama, ...

In a very special episode, Kat and Samm explore some of their favourite things, unedited, unscripted, and unrestrained. The list was long, but they only made it to two subjects. Listen to the show to find out what they are…

Kat and Samm begin an exploration of the films of Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar. This episode focuses on his collaborations with actor Antonio Banderas, beginning with 1986’s explicit serial killer film Matador, where a young would-be bullfighter (Banderas) confesses to several ...

In this final part of their series inspired by Cathal Tohill and Pete Tombs’ Immoral Tales: European Sex & Horror Movies, 1956-1984, Kat and Samm discuss unclassifiable French director (and writer) Alain Robbe-Grillet. Known for his surreal and often controversial ...

In the third part of their series inspired by Cathal Tohill and Pete Tombs’ book Immoral Tales: European Sex & Horror Movies, 1956-1984, Kat and Samm explore the work of French poète maudit Jean Rollin. First, they discuss Rollin’s colorful, ...