Perverse Permission

Perverse Permission is a cinema podcast hosted by Samm Deighan and John Dickson, focused on exploring the furthest reaches of cult cinema.

Perverse Permission is a tv podcast hosted by Samm Deighan, with 10 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Samm Deighan hosts Perverse Permission, a tv show with 10 episodes published.

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  God of Gamblers with Will Sloan

  Dec 17, 20251h 15mS0

  <p>For this next episode in our Wong Jing series, writer and critic Will Sloan joins John and Samm to talk about Jing’s God of Gamblers trilogy: God of Gamblers (1989), starring Chow Yun-Fat as one of the world’s greatest gamblers, who gets amnesia; God of Gamblers II (1990), starring Stephen Chow as a gambler with super powers who teams up with the God of Gamblers’ protege (Andy Lau); and God of Gamblers Part III: Back to Shanghai (1991), where Stephen Chow’s super powers accidentally send him back in time to Shanghai in 1937. for gambling, musical numbers.</p> <p>Will Sloan is a...

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  Episode 9: The Wong Jing Experience, Part 6

  Nov 26, 20251 hourS0

  <p>In this Thanksgiving episode, John and Samm are running the gauntlet through three of Wong Jing’s gambling and crime films from the late ’80s: Born to Gamble (1987), yet another tale of a gambler (Natalis Chan) deceiving his prospective love interest (the divine Joyce Godenzi) to try to win her heart; Doubles Cause Troubles (1989), where two cousins (Maggie Cheung and Carol Cheng) are forced to live together for an inheritance, but they get swept into a plot involving gangsters, a secret code, and crooked cops; and Casino Raiders (1989), where Andy Lau and Alan Tam play two professional gamblers on the...

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  Episode 8: The Wong Jing Experience, Part 5

  Nov 18, 20251h 13mS0

  <p>John and Samm are running the gauntlet of some of Wong Jing’s late ’80s comedy series, so you don’t have to! This episode, we’re discussing The Romancing Star trilogy (1987-1989), about a foursome trying to find love while working in an auto shop (among other places), and The Crazy Companies (1988) double feature, where a former actor competes with his nefarious brother over the future of the family business. These films unite actors like Chow Yun Fat, Andy Lau, Natalis Chan, Stanley Fung, Eric Tsang, Shing Fui-on, and others for a series of over-the-top gags, subplots about frustrate...

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  Episode 7: The Wong Jing Halloween Special

  Oct 27, 20251h 43mS0

  <p>For this special, spooky episode of our Wong Jing series, John and Samm explore the horror comedies Wong Jing made in the late 1980s as a director, writer, and actor. We discuss films he wrote and acted in, like Lam Ngai-kai’s The Ghost Snatchers (1986), about a high rise building haunted by the ghosts of Japanese soldiers from WWII; Evil Cat (1987), about a demonic cat entity that must be defeated at all costs; and Ghost Busting (1989), about office workers who have to learn to fight off the ghosts swarming their building. We also dive into his directorial efforts like Mr...

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  Episode 6: Rollin Loud

  Oct 13, 20251h 53mS0

  <p>For Halloween season, John and Samm are taking a break from Hong Kong to visit the autumnal cemeteries and crumbling castles of France. We discuss the career of French fantastique director Jean Rollin, broadly covering his vampire films and key tropes before plunging into his work as a director of soft and hardcore sex films. Rollin was often forced to take on these kinds of work for hire projects to make a living as a director, so we also talk a lot about the limitations that shaped his career, what was going on with European cinema at the time...

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