Horror Vanguard

Ash is joined by author Bill Peel to discuss Bill's new book: Tonight It's A World We Bury: Black Metal, Red Politics! (Yeah, we also talk about the terrifically cheesy movie Trick or Treat from 1986... [It's actually pretty good!]) Pick up your copy here: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/tonight-its-a-world-we-bury/ Follow Bill at: https://twitter.com/yung_euronymous Check out Bill's interview w...

It all started as a normal day in the HV crypt until Jon and Ash got Skinamarinked! The only way out is through, and in this case, that means discourse! Today we're talking about experimental cinematic ontologies and the shared social technology of dreams... Follow us on social media for the best deals on vintage horror movie toys: twitter.com/HorrorVanguard www.instagram.com/horrorvanguard/ You c...

It's official: We're jumping into the EPIC Cronenberg multiverse crossover event of the (previous) year! Your ghosts are burning up despair like crude oil in this discussion of a plasticine epoch, queer eroticisms in collapse, and finding hope in a world with no oceans! Follow us on social media for the latest cameos, easter eggs, and hidden Cronenberg references!: twitter.com/HorrorVanguard www.i...

Theology, environmentalism, and hot button political issues! We're talking First Reformed—the most Jon movie possible!?!?! Follow us on social media for the top 10 tips for navigating your clerical career crisis: twitter.com/HorrorVanguard www.instagram.com/horrorvanguard/ You can support the show for less than the cost of maintaining your local church at www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard

Today, your ghosts are joined by Mark H. Harris, co-author of The Black Guy Dies First! Find Mark H. Harris online at: https://twitter.com/blacula https://www.blackhorrormovies.com/ Pick up a copy of The Black Guy Dies First at: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Black-Guy-Dies-First/Robin-R-Means-Coleman/9781982186531 Follow us on social media: twitter.com/HorrorVanguard www.instagram.com...

We're joined by long-time HV guest Mistress Snow to discuss AI, haunted dolls, and M3gan! Mistress Snow's article on AI: https://www.wired.com/story/lensa-artificial-intelligence-csem/ Connect with Sow at: https://twitter.com/MistressSnowPhD https://doctrixsnow.com/ Follow us on social media for as long as this app lasts? twitter.com/HorrorVanguard www.instagram.com/horrorvanguard/ You can support...

Let's go back to a simpler age. A time when cosmic deities were feared, sorcerers battled in ancient ruins, and fashion was at an all-time high! We're combing the cyclopean forces of Dean Stockwell, Roger Corman, and H. P. Lovecraft in today's episode on The Dunwich Horror! Follow us on social media for a full reading of The Necronomicon: twitter.com/HorrorVanguard www.instagram.com/horrorvanguard...

One part documentary, one part Sheffield working class culture, add in a dash of nuclear apocalyptic fiction and you get one of the most startling movies about the sheer terror of the atomic bomb ever put to screen. We're talking about class, the politics of the UK in the early 80s, and Sheffield as we review Threads! Follow us on social media for future Sheffield-based horror movie review style c...

Unions, the Catholic Workers, liberation theology, VINCENT PRICE? Wander through the discourse with us during our review of The Ten Commandments! Follow us on social media to haggle with us like a seller of melons in the marketplace: twitter.com/HorrorVanguard www.instagram.com/horrorvanguard/ You can support the show for less than the cost of a 40 night stay in the desert of your choosing at www....

Today we're reviewing one of the most requested movies we get... Knife + Heart! Come for the discourse, stay for the puns! Follow us on social media for the latest in black-gloved fashion: twitter.com/HorrorVanguard www.instagram.com/horrorvanguard/ You can support the show for less than the cost of starting up your own indie cinema in late 70s France at www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard

It's time for us to talk about Hellraiser in space, but not THAT Hellraiser in space! We're talking all about desire, grief and Event Horizon! Follow us on social media for the latest in Hellraiser ripoffs: twitter.com/HorrorVanguard www.instagram.com/horrorvanguard/ You can support the show for less than the cost of recovering your experimental spacecraft at www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard

This week's spooky movie review takes us deep into the woods to discuss possibly the greatest movie inspired by Jaws... Trees! We're talking all about Trees, Trees 2: The Root of All Evil, and Treevenge in this treerrific Treeple Feature! Do you have a graduate degree in something tree-related, follow us on social media: twitter.com/HorrorVanguard www.instagram.com/horrorvanguard/ You can support...

This week we're watching Yorgos Lanthimos's Killing of a Sacred Deer! This is a complicated film and we had a lot of complicated feelings about it. This is less of a review and more of both of us talking through the film to find out what our own feelings on it were... Oh, and literally 0 deer in this movie. If you know where we can find a deer, follow us on social media: twitter.com/HorrorVanguard...

Ash sits down with Kelly Roberts and Michael Grasso, two of the authors of We Are The Mutants: The Battle for Hollywood from Rosemary's Baby to Lethal Weapon to discuss their new book! https://wearethemutants.com/ Grab a copy of this ghoulish tome: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/we-are-the-mutants-the-battle-for-hollywood-from-rosemarys-baby-to-lethal-weapon/ If you're a mutant, follow us on so...

Guillermo del Toro could have written Metamorphosis, but Kafka could have never directed The Shape of Water... Today we're diving into GDT's most troubled film: Mimic. We watched the 2011 Director's Cut and, like GDT, we found healing amongst giant CGI bug mutants. Follow us on social media to join a secret network of sentient bugs: twitter.com/HorrorVanguard www.instagram.com/horrorvanguard/ You...

It's Ash's birthday and you know what that means... SLIME! We're reviewing the avant documentary The Creeping Garden and talking everything from the history of cinema to the future of goo! Follow us on social media for wave after wave of slime: twitter.com/HorrorVanguard www.instagram.com/horrorvanguard/ You can support the show for less than the cost of realizing the value of slime after you've l...

We're joined by Jay Colbert to discuss Harrison Birtwistle and David Harsent's The Minotaur! It's opera time! Keep up with Jay's work here: https://twitter.com/_WildeAtHeart https://linktr.ee/jlcolbert https://www.patreon.com/wildeatheart https://wilde-at-heart.garden https://www.librarypunk.gay Follow us on social media for possibly future opera reviews: twitter.com/HorrorVanguard www.instagram.c...

February is here and we're warming things up by talking about a late-Soviet folk horror film: Viy! We're joined by Alexander Herbert, author of Fear Before The Fall: Horror Films in the Late Soviet Union! Buy a copy of Fear Before The Fall here: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/fear-before-fall-horror-films-late-soviet-union Keep up with Alex's work here: https://twitter.com...

They're creepy and they're kooky. They're altogether ahistoric and beholden to urges that they themselves can not begin to recognize the nature of! That's right! By popular demand, this January's bonus episode is our review of season 1 of the Netflix Wednesday show! Follow us on social media to find the meaning of family: twitter.com/HorrorVanguard www.instagram.com/horrorvanguard/ You can support...

It'sa me, one of the most infamous video game movies of all time! We're joined by John Leavitt to talk about Super Mario Bros! ...and don't you worry, it's got slime monsters, body horror, and the dreaded ludo-narrative, so there's plenty of chills and thrills to go around! Take a strange journey with John Leavitt: www. Leavittalone.com on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LeavittAlone Follow us on soc...

In the gloomy depths of January, we decided to brighten things up with a classic animated film about little bunnies and their wild adventures! So we watched Watership Down. Oh no! Follow us on social media for the latest in cuniculture! twitter.com/HorrorVanguard www.instagram.com/horrorvanguard/ You can support the show for less than the cost of one traumatic childhood cartoon at www.patreon.com/...

Season 1 of our Twin Peaks Retrospective comes to a close with Episode 7 "The Last Evening." Things might seem like they are wrapping up, but they are really only beginning... Join us for episode 8 of our complete retrospective on everything Twin Peaks: Episode 7 "The Last Evening" Diane, remind me to follow Horror Vanguard on social media: twitter.com/HorrorVanguard www.instagram.com/horrorvangua...

January stays spooky with a dive into Nobuhiko Obayashi's Hausu! Cats, TV commercials, and ghastly real-estate, what's not to love? Want to get the best advice on how to flip a haunted house? Follow us on social media: twitter.com/HorrorVanguard www.instagram.com/horrorvanguard/ You can support the show for less than the cost of one watermelon at www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard

We're starting off the new year with a trip to a ghoulish gym of fitness discourse! Friend of the show Dave Billig AKA "LaborLifts" sets up their spooky squat rack in the Horror Vanguard Crypt to discuss Shinichi Fukazawa's 1995 film Bloody Muscle Body Builder in Hell! Keep up with Dave's work: https://twitter.com/LaborLifts https://davebillig.com Follow us on social media to bulk out your brain m...

Everything is coming to a head and Jon and Ash actually get to use their graduate degrees in gothic studies! Give yourself a little gift today and listen to this episode. Join us for episode 7 of our complete retrospective on everything Twin Peaks: Episode 6 "Realization Time" Diane, remind me to follow Horror Vanguard on social media: twitter.com/HorrorVanguard www.instagram.com/horrorvanguard/ w...