Horror Vanguard

Joined by their friends and comrades from The Left Page, the spooky lads get overcome by the sheer power of Sean Connery's masculine energy. Listen to the Left Page here: http://leftpage.libsyn.com/ Support their show: patreon.com/leftpage Follow Frank: https://twitter.com/Kgbfrank Follow Bruno: https://twitter.com/sangiorgiobruno , , , If you like what we do, make sure to comment and leave us a r...

In a left podcast team-up, Dean and Matt from The Magnificast join the spinegang to talk about squid, phenomenology and much more besides. Listen to The Magnificast here: https://soundcloud.com/themagnificast Follow Dean: https://twitter.com/DeanDettloff Follow Matt: https://twitter.com/spookymachines . . . If you like what we do, make sure to comment and leave us a rating. You can follow us on Tw...

Conner Habib joins the spinegang to talk about Midsommar and whether or not it's as good as all the hot takes have been claiming. Follow Conner on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ConnerHabib Listen to Against Everyone With Conner Habib: https://connerhabib.com/tag/aewch/ Support Conner's work: https://www.patreon.com/join/ConnerHabib? . . If you like what we do, make sure to comment and leave us a ra...

Combining their dark power, Jon and Ash summon Max Alvarez from Working People to talk about podcasting, class consciousness and much more. Follow Max on Twitter: https://twitter.com/maximillian_alv Follow Working People: https://twitter.com/WorkingPod Listen to Working People: http://workingpeople.libsyn.com/ . . . If you like what we do, make sure to comment and leave us a rating. You can follow...

Writer and horror fan Nicole Cliffe joins the Horror Vanguard crypt to talk about religion in horror, the spiritual gloom of Liam Gavin's film "A Dark Song" and the most powerful ORB. Follow Nicole: twitter.com/Nicole_Cliffe Subscribe to Nicole's newsletter here: https://nicole.substack.com/ If you like what we do, make sure to comment and leave us a rating. You can follow us on Twitter: twitter.c...

Join Ash and Jon as they dig into Chapter 2 of Mark Fisher's Ghosts of my Life - Hauntology for the latest episode of the Arcane Book Club of Horrors! We talk about a lot of things. BE WARNED Katy Perry is one of them. If you like what we do, make sure to comment and leave us a rating. You can follow us on Twitter:https://twitter.com/HorrorVanguard To support the show and get access to full Arcane...

We are joined by Meredith Graves to talk about 2015's Green Room. The three of us talk the politics of Punk Rock, the occult, and the hottest bread takes you've ever heard. Support the show at: https://www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard

We're joined by Laura Colaneri. We talk reproductive justice, South American fascism and the Gothic, and activism. You can find Laura on Twitter at https://twitter.com/RawrLawra or her academic website at https://voices.uchicago.edu/lcolaneri/ Find out more about the National Network of Abortion Funds here: https://abortionfunds.org/ If you're in the Chicago area, you can find the Chicago DSA on T...

Jon and Ash are joined in the crypt with non other than Jake Flores! Join us as we talk about tarot, landlords, kink, and Wes Craven's 1991 film The People Under the Stairs! You can follow Jake on Twitter https://twitter.com/feraljokes Pod Damn America is on SoundCloud @PodDamnAmerica & Twitter https://twitter.com/PodDamnAmerica You can support Pod Damn America on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.c...

Time to get spooky with this month's Arcane Book Club of Horrors! We're talking China Mieville's Marxism and Halloween lecture. Support the show at: https://www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard

In our latest episode Ash and Jon watch Sam Raimi's Drag Me to Hell and discuss the Gothic Marxism of the subprime mortgage crisis and witchcraft as direct action. We also take a moment to celebrate the life and times of little known Gothic fanfic writer Karl Marx. Support the show at: https://www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard

Our minds were so completely shattered by Mother! that we wound up recording almost two whole episodes in one go. We've stitched together the remains and brought you the first of Lost Transmissions, our new, and totally sporadic, sampling of cut Horror Vanguard content. Let's get back into the fray of the movie Lenin referred to as: "cinema in decay." Support the show at: https://www.patreon.com/h...

Ash and Jon take a break from the world of spooky leftist theory and head to a beachside carnival for some rest and encounters with the ever-present specter of our own mortalities. Are we ghouls exiled from the real? Are we phantoms in our own lives? Are we podcasters trying to explore the politics of the eerie? Is this all just a metaphor for class consciousness? Tune in and find out! Support the...

In this episode Ash and Jon discuss the oft referenced classic of spooky academia, Men, Women, and Chainsaws by Carol Clover and as a bonus, they deliver the grisly post-mortem of the Žižek - Peterson debate. To hear all of our Arcane Book Club of Horrors episodes in full, creep on over to our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard

Ash and Jon are joined by Nestor from Black Banner Magic to talk about Lords of Choas, Black Metal, anti-fascism and much more besides. Follow BBM on Twitter: https://twitter.com/blackbannerpod?lang=en Listen to the show: https://blackbannermagic.libsyn.com/ Listen to hellgayzer: https://hellgayzer.bandcamp.com/releases MUSIC RECS: NECKBEARD DEATHCAMP https://neckbearddeathcamp.bandcamp.com/ DAWN...

Ash and Jon accidentally watched Darren Aronofsky's Mother! Support the show at: https://www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard

Mexie joined the spinegang to talk about Julia Ducournau's 2016 film, 'Raw.' We cover alienation, vegan politics and much more besides. Mexie on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCepkun0sH16b-mqxBN22ogA Vegan Vanguard: http://veganvanguardpodcast.com/ Support the Vegan Vanguard on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/veganvanguard Dr. Melanie Joy: The Secret Reason We Eat Meat: https://www.you...

It was Ash's birthday so we got super existential by watching a weird British art-horror film. What is the black tower? How do we survive the bleak alienation of late capitalism? All that, and more besides on this episode! We're Talking John Smith's The Black Tower! Support the show at: https://www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard

For Women in Horror Month, we turn to one of the icons of horror culture, the Mistress of the Dark and working-class hero, Elvira. We talk sex positivity, horror culture, working-class aspiration and spooky fight against the patriarchy! Support the show at: https://www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard

It's the most romantic day of the year and Jon and Ash talk unions, labor, and the affective power of horror. What does it take to combat a pickaxe-wielding killer? Why is capitalism slowly destroying small-town America and most importantly, just how dreamy is Jensen Ackles? Get ready to FEEL! Support the show at: https://www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard

Is Rob Zombie's Halloween remake any good? What does Rob Zombie have to offer as a director and what does all this have to do with lobsters? All these questions and MORE will be settled as Jon and Ash deal with another version of Halloween! Support the show at: https://www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard

Happy new year comrades! We start 2019 with one of the finest horror films of the twentieth century as Jon and Ash talk John Carpenter's Halloween, the horrors of suburbia, violence and absent subjectivities. Prepare to get spooky! Support the show at: https://www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard

It's the most wonderful time of the year! Jon & Ash turn to a classic of Christmas cinema, talking about revolutionary action, the Frankfurt School, Deleuze, and the greatest Mogwai of them all, Slavoj Zizek. Welcome to our review of Gremlins!

Welcome to the Horror Vanguard! Ash and Jon discuss a seasonal, spooky horror classic: Black Christmas! Topics include gentrification, Marxist feminism, the function of horror in the critique of capitalism and much more besides. Show notes: Silvia Federici, "Wages for Housework" https://caringlabor.wordpress.com/2010/09/15/silvia-federici-wages-against-housework/ Silvia Federici, "Caliban and the...