Spooky Season 2022 is officially upon us! That means it's time for the annual Horror Vanguard Halloween Spooktacular! 

Get your ghosts and ghouls ready because we pulled out all the stops this year. 

Up first is our discussion on Carpenter’s Apocalypse Trilogy. The Thing, Prince of Darkness, and Mouth of Madness. HERE. WE. G(H)O(UL)!!!!! 

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227 - John Carpenter’s Apocalypse Trilogy: The Thing - Prince of Darkness - Mouth of Madness

Your ghosts are still on a little break for November, so we've unlocked another bonus episode from the crypt! 

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...

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267 - Skinamarink (Your Ghosts Get Skinamarinked!)

A double feature with a Peckinpah western set in Cornwall and a Daily Mail article come to life, we're talking Straw Dogs and Eden Lake. 

Come for the masculinities and working class aesthetics discourse, stay to find out just what we think of Eden Lake... 

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273 - Straw Dogs & Eden Lake Double Feature Review! [Unlocked!]

Your ghosts review the iconic cult horror hit: Phantasm! 

Let's talk about the shady political history of what happens to bodies after death AND Men, Women, and Chainsaws! Come for the retro fashion, stay because your brain has been cored out by Dune.

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282 - Phantasm (The Best Movie Ever!? [Click Here to Learn More!])

How did we go nearly 300 episodes without discussing the works of Jean Rollin?

Join us for a chat on Rollin's Fascination and an introduction to the French Fantasique! 

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292 - Jean Rollin's Fascination (Keep on Rollin, Baby!)

A few times a year a sun rises on an unlucky day, but what if this day brought discourse instead of bad vibes?

Every Friday the 13th we are going to discuss Friday the 13th until we run out of Friday the 13th movies (which, incidentally, will occur sometime around 2030 assuming no new Friday the 13th movies are made and there are no changes to the calendar.)

Lacan! Gender! Libidinal anxieties! And I guess a slasher too! How scary! 

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296 - Friday The 13th Part 2 (Lacan in the Woods)

Happy Halloween! It's time for your yearly Halloween treat episode and this year we've lost our minds and went all out! 

Yes, your podcast app is not glitching out. This is a nearly 9 hour review of every single Halloween movie. We cover everything from Carpenter's original Halloween to the recent David Gordon Green trilogy! 

That's a history spanning 1978 to 2022, nearly 50 years of Halloween. 

Dig in for a bardic quest attempting to understand the Myers-Strode relationship, Celtic wizards, and the twisted mind of Dr. Loomis! 

Did we go mad while recording this? You'll have to listen to find out! 

Happy Halloween, listeners and remember: Stay Spooky! 

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295 - We Review The Entire Halloween Film Franchise In 9 Hours Or Less

The long-awaited return to the Saw franchise is finally upon us! Saw X might be the most critically and commercially successful Saw film to date, but will it stand up to the ensnaring terrors of... a podcast!?

It's time to get back in the contraption!

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297 - Saw X (Formerly Twitter) Review

The weather outside is frightful, but I'm sure I've used this pun to introduce a holiday episode before!

Old Saint Nick has come through this year and we're digging into 2015's Krampus, Austrian history, and plenty of Christmas ghost story discourse!

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302 - Krampus (Ghost Stories, Belief, and Hope)

Your ghosts celebrate 300 episodes of Horror Vanguard by getting each other surprise movie gifts in this creepy double feature review! 

Today's films are: Disgusting Space Worms Eat Everyone! and Liquid Sky.

Listen closely, a few longtime HV guests might stop by in this cyclopean episode... 

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300 - Horror Vanguard's 300th Episode Double Feature!

The nights have gotten longer which means... VAMPIRES! But also petrochemicals and Westerns! We really need to see the sun sometime soon! 

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301 - 30 Days Of Night (Peak Petrovampire Takes)

Your ghosts, I mean hosts, are joined by Frank and Leon from Left Page and Here Be Media to discuss Adam West's Batman: The Movie! 

Dananana Dananana discourse!

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303 - Batman: The Movie With Frank and Leon!

Yet again we dive into one of those movies we could have spent 9+ hours discussing, but it's not always Halloween. 

It's time for our first Todd Haynes movie, Safe! 

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305 - Safe (1995) Review & Self Help Guide

Dr. Phibes is one of Vincent Price's most visually iconic characters, but what does that mean for an actor whose popular presence is bound up with his roles? Is that an organ in your body or are you just happy to become libidinally annihilationist? 

AND WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH JOHN KRAMER AND THE SAW MOVIES JUST WHEN WE THINK WE'VE DONE THEM ALL HISTORY REALIGNS AND NEW PATTERNS BECOME EVIDENT IN THE ETERNAL TAPESTRY OF ART?

We've gone too long without a Vincent Price movie. 

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304 - The Abominable Dr. Phibes (Saw and its Precursors)

Last Halloween, your ghosts, I mean hosts, recorded a 3 hour Jordan Peele trilogy review which was nearly lost. However, archivists studying the Crypt's microbiomes stumbled upon The Lost Hard-drive containing this very episode!

The flow of time itself is convoluted, with episodes centuries old phasing in and out.

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306 - The Lost Halloween Jordan Peele Trilogy Review Preview

It's Ash's yearly birthday pick and, as always, it was a coin toss between goofy b-movie mayhem and experimental weirdness. We got lucky and they chose both! 

Please enjoy the episode wherein we review one Wisconsinite and two puppets giving their commentary on a movie from the 50s, won't we? 

WE'VE GOT MOVIE SIGN!!!

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307 - MST3K The Movie: The Review

When we here at the HV Crypt look to the stars, we see the boundless potential for not one, but TWO movies in a single episode. 

We're reviewing Pitch Black and Sunshine; two movies that feel completely different, but are actually both movies with actors set in outer space. 

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Today's episode is... out of this world!

308 - Pitch Black & Sunshine Double Feature Double Review (Gone Stellar!?)

The ghouls of the HV Crypt are joined by Maisha Wester to discuss a legendary piece of Black gothic cinema: Bill Gunn's Ganja & Hess! 

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309 - Ganja & Hess with Maisha Wester!

Every now and then a movie is set in Wisconsin, created by a man on a majestic cocktail of drugs, and somehow manages to simultaneously grapple with gender and atomic horror.

Bloodbeat is one of those movies.

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310 - Bloodbeat (Post-Atomic Wisconsin Hauntology)

Floridaman Kyle Kern returns to the HV Crypt to discuss a Sam Raimi produced horror film that went critically under-discussed: Crawl! 

In a way, the crawl space is a metaphor for doing movie reviews... 

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311 - Crawl with Kyle Kern! (Advanced Gator Theory & Swim Meet)

We promise this episode isn't completely about Star Trek: Voyager. 

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312 - Night Of The Comet (Night of the Hyperstition)

Bones and All is a beautiful film and we couldn't think of a better film to discuss with the new ghost, I mean host, of Horror Vanguard...

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314 - Bones And All (New Host & 80s Truck Discourse!)

Your ghosts are joined by Kayte Terry from Fangs for the Memories to discuss Only Lovers Left Alive! 

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313 - Only Lovers Left Alive with Fangs for the Memories

Jon's new book is out! A Primer on Utopian Philosophy is out now! So, we thought the best way to talk about utopia was to also talk about Faust! 

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315 - F. W. Murnau's Faust! (A Primer on Utopian Philosophy)

316 episodes and Horror Vanguard gets a new host! 

We're kicking off Kyle Kern's run as a permanent host of HV by taking things back to where they all began... a Lindsay Lohan movie!

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316 - Irish Wish with New Host Kyle Kern!

The HV Ghosts attempt to get their med school degrees in Contacting the Divine while discussing Queer cinema, Chicago City Fun Facts, and theology. Just the usual around here. 

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317 - Flatliners (A Deal With God)

You know that niche political theory genre film podcast's TV miniseries you like is finally back in style! 

Ash and Jon get the ball rolling with our new TPR format of three episodes in one! Now that's what we call savings! 

Let's jump in to episode 13 "Demons," 14 "Lonely Souls," and 15 "Drive With a Dead Girl." 

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318 - Twin Peaks Retrospective Returns (Episodes 13, 14, and 15)

100 Gecs, Dark Souls, being gay and doing a materialism; it's time to talk Trucks!

Full episode over on our Patreon! 

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PREVIEW! 319 - Trucks (The Dark Souls of Queer Truck Materialism)

An actor playing an Elvis impersonator who was the real Elvis next to an actor who was a civil right's movement leader playing a JKF doppelgänger. We have a very normal conversation.

Thank you, thank you very much.

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320 - Bubba Ho-Tep (Mummified Signifiers)

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.

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