Horror Vanguard
Ash and Jon are your guides as we delve through the crypts of Leftist politics and Horror films
Episodes
August 21, 2025 • 63 mins
Join us in this joyful jaunt into early modern history.
An important content note: this one is very much concerned with serious depression.
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August 15, 2025 • 56 mins
A true movies rock moment
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August 6, 2025 • 82 mins
Movie reviews with Hideo Kojima.
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July 27, 2025 • 11 mins
In order to discuss scary spiders, we must first turn our attention to tech investing in San Francisco.
You can get access to this bonus episode and our entire back catalogue of bonus episodes on our Patreon page which is a thing you should do irrespective of your fear or love of larger-than-average spiders. Patreon.com/horrorvanguard if you dare.
Discuss your favorite types of animal-centered horror films that are actually pro...
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July 26, 2025 • 5 mins
The taxidermy owls aren't what they seem.
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www.horrorvanguard.com (It would have been up this week, but I accidentally let it sink into a mire.)
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Précis music: "Death Wish" by Aleksis Tristan Shaw (itch.io/profile/aleksis-tristan...
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July 23, 2025 • 99 mins
Check out librarypunk: https://www.librarypunk.gay
You can listen to us discuss The Day After Tomorrow today with the entire librarypunk crew!
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July 22, 2025 • 96 mins
Sonic the Hedgehog
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June 24, 2025 • 75 mins
Kyle and Jon continue their tenure as the HV tech-priests during the Age of Apps.
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Précis music: "House of Undoing" by Aleksis Tr...
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June 13, 2025 • 73 mins
We very nearly made this episode a clip show of the last three Friday the 13th reviews. Sustainability at its finest!
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Get the full episode (and quite possibly future discussions on mammalian sea life on our Patreon page!
It's a Jaws Ripoff Isekaied into Moby Dick by way of Taxi Driver with the plot structure of Dragonball Z and the cultural poise of The Exorcist with a touch of Star Trek. This movie is incredible.
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May 20, 2025 • 96 mins
What do we make of the politics of FFVII's Avalanche? What game design fundamentals does The Golden Saucer teach us? How will Ash and Kyle unpack the idiosyncrasies of play experience and narrative design against the backdrop of larger, political and material, conversations? All of this and more in... a review of 1985's House?
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May 13, 2025 • 111 mins
In space no one can hear you scream, but they can hear you podcast! We're joined by Josh Boerman from Worst of All Possible Worlds to chat about a classic horror movie and finally get to the bottom of what that blue laser actually means...
Listen to Worst of All Possible Worlds:
https://www.worstpossible.world
Keep up with Josh at:
https://www.joshboerman.com
on Bluesky @bosh.worstpossible.world
Discuss your favorite mechani...
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Today's episode gets to the heart of a conspiracy so deep and so dark no one has covered it before: Mary Todd Lincoln is real and we have the eels to prove it!
As always, you can get the full bonus episode (and literal years of bonus back catalogue episodes) over on our Patreon page!
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April 22, 2025 • 91 mins
CD Eskilson, author of the new book of poetry Scream / Queen, joins the crypt to discuss poetry, Queer horror, and working with the monsters of our time.
Order CD's book here: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/S/bo245013529.html
Bookmark CD's website: https://www.cdeskilson.com/
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April 4, 2025 • 104 mins
The legs are long, the vibes are necrotic, and the marketing campaign is locked away in the basement. Let's all gather 'round and find out what's up with these mysterious metal orb rattling around our collective head.
NIC CAGE JUMP SCARE!
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You...
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February 13, 2025 • 11 mins
We barely contained this one.
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January 4, 2025 • 112 mins
We're joined by none other than Justin from librarypunk to discuss either a film about a zombie boyfriend or an unfinished fever dream from which aspects of our sanity will never awaken!
Check out librarypunk on your podcast app of choice and on their website: http://librarypunk.gay/
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January 4, 2025 • 10 mins
Want even more questioning? Get the full episode, and the ability to question us at your leisure, at www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard!
Never one to cut corners, here's the second ever Horror Vanguard Q&A Episode!
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December 23, 2024 • 125 mins
We've donned our festive novelty sunglasses to discuss the true meaning of the season: discussing Christological interpretations of the holidays and leveraging merchandising!
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December 1, 2024 • 116 mins
Adam C. Jones from Acid Horizon joins us in the HV Crypt to discuss the movie Naked Lunch alongside his new book The New Flesh out now from Repeater!
Catch Acid Horizon on your podcast app of choice and at their website: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/
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