The Twin Peaks Retrospective continues with your ghosts exploring Episode 10 "The Man Behind The Glass!"
Season 2 continues with its slow burn, but now that The One Armed Man and Harold Smith are in the mix, things are finally getting weird again. Also the scene where Donna has a monologue ...
2023-07-06 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Season 2 of ourTwin Peaks Retrospective continues!
Season 2 is taking a while to warm up to your ghosts, but we continue on with "Coma."
2023-07-02 16:58:00 +0000 UTC View Post
This month's bonus episode takes us back to a very Normal island...
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 ...
2023-06-30 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostAsh has been busy in the content mines podcasting with HV alums Mexie and Jay! Check out the Total Liberation episode on new left approaches to veganism and the first guest episode on Jay's new show Tender Subjects for cannibalism, movies, and MOTEL HELL!
(Sorry early access was late this week. The day job (fishing for cthulhus) got in the way of talking about cthluhus.)
Gay. Cthulhu. Deep Ones. What else can I say?
The Wyrd_Signal takeover of the HV Crypt continues with Sean joining us for a discussion on Cthulhu (Gay)!
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2023-06-27 18:16:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Our Twin Peaks Retrospective is back!
Let's kick things off by getting reacquainted with our cast, their predicaments, and the mysterious goings on of America's favorite sitcom!
It's Jon's birthday so we're choosing an uplifting, feel-good movie that is definitely not a controversial downer!
Gay. Disco. Poltergeists. What else can I say?
We're joined by the Horror Vanguard Hall of Fame gay all-stars Jay from librarypunk, John Leavitt, and Kyle Kern to discuss this under-loved queer horror movie!
🎃 Keep up with Jay and librarypunk
2023-06-09 12:00:06 +0000 UTC
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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: 2023-06-02 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
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!
Theology, environmentalism, and hot button political issues! We're talking First Reformed—the most Jon movie possible!?!?!
Today, your ghosts are joined by Mark H. Harris, co-author of The Black Guy Dies First!
Find Mark H. Harris online at:
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2023-05-05 13:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Snow is back for another round of HV discourse! This time we're talking AI, tech, and haunted dolls!
Olivia Snow's article on AI: 2023-04-28 12:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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!
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 8...
2023-04-14 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Unions, the Catholic Workers, liberation theology, VINCENT PRICE?
Wander through the discourse with us during our review of The Ten Commandments!
Today we're reviewing one of the most requested movies we get... Knife + Heart!
Come for the discourse, stay for the puns!
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!
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!
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 literall...
2023-03-10 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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!
Let's find a new hope in a world of bugs and broken down subway cars.
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!
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:
Early access for the first episode of February is here! We're talking with Alexander Herbert, author of Fear Before The Fall: Horror Films in the Late Soviet Union and reviewing folk horror classic: Viy!
Buy a copy of Fear Before The Fall here: 2023-02-06 01:19:15 +0000 UTC View Post
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!
You wanted scary, we'll give you scary! It's time to talk about a live-action video game movie!
Check out John Leavitt's writing:
2023-01-20 18:54:09 +0000 UTC View PostHey ghouls! Your co-ghost Ash will be doing a few live talks over the next week or so.
I've got two live-streamed talks on SLIME happening this Sunday the 22nd. Talks are free and it's the same talk happening twice for all your time zone needs!
