Horror Vanguard

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368 - Arachnaphobia (Arachnotopian Potentials) [Preview] Jul 27, 2025

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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 proxies for wider economic, class, and material anxieties with Horror Vanguard at: bsky.app/profile/horrorvanguard.bsky.social www.horrorvanguard.com (Website currently handed over to a team of spiders for finishing touches.) You can support the show for less than the cost of wrangling a cluster of one of the few species of social spiders at: www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard

367 - Psycho (Turn Into Elvira) [Preview] Jul 27, 2025

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The taxidermy owls aren't what they seem. Discuss your favorite types of taxidermy with Horror Vanguard at: bsky.app/profile/horrorvanguard.bsky.social www.horrorvanguard.com (It would have been up this week, but I accidentally let it sink into a mire.) You can support the show for less than the cost of any bird at: www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard Précis music: "Death Wish" by Aleksis Tristan Shaw (itch.io/profile/aleksis-tristan-shaw). Available for use under the CC BY 4.0 license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), at aleksis-tristan-shaw.itch.io/dark-piano-vol-ii

366 - The Day After Tomorrow with librarypunk Jul 23, 2025

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Check out librarypunk: https://www.librarypunk.gay You can listen to us discuss The Day After Tomorrow today with the entire librarypunk crew! Discuss your favorite types of things you've gotten from your local library with Horror Vanguard at: bsky.app/profile/horrorvanguard.bsky.social www.horrorvanguard.com (website currently checked out by another patron) You can support the show for less than the cost of you can go, right now, and pick up a free library card from your local library and discover everything from books to free streaming apps and even classes to learn new stuff which may or may not be spooky and then, after you have gotten involved with your local library, you can pitch in at: www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard

365 - The Haunting (1963) (What We Say (About Sonic) Lives On)) Jul 22, 2025

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Sonic the Hedgehog Discuss your favorite types of localized hauntings with Horror Vanguard at: bsky.app/profile/horrorvanguard.bsky.social www.horrorvanguard.com (website physically relocated to a undisclosed plot of land in rural England.) You can support the show for less than the cost of any one object seen in this movie! Go ahead and try this fun game at home then pitch in at: at www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard Précis music: "Scalding, Bitter Tears" by Aleksis Tristan Shaw (itch.io/profile/aleksis-tristan-shaw). Available for use under the CC BY 4.0 license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), at aleksis-tristan-shaw.itch.io/dark-piano-vol-ii

364 - Red Rooms (Right Out of the OC Bible [Merely Light from a Screen]) Jun 24, 2025

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Kyle and Jon continue their tenure as the HV tech-priests during the Age of Apps. Discuss your favorite types of rooms with Horror Vanguard at: bsky.app/profile/horrorvanguard.bsky.social www.horrorvanguard.com (website down to minimize collective screen time.) You can support the show for less than the cost of basically any app's subscription cost at www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard Précis music: "House of Undoing" by Aleksis Tristan Shaw (itch.io/profile/aleksis-tristan-shaw). Available for use under the CC BY 4.0 license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), at https://aleksis-tristan-shaw.itch.io/dark-piano-vol-ii

363 - Friday 13th IV: Final Chapter Review (Regressing to Jason [Bear Hunter Unrealized]) Jun 13, 2025

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We very nearly made this episode a clip show of the last three Friday the 13th reviews. Sustainability at its finest! Discuss your favorite Friday the 13th clip shows with Horror Vanguard at: bsky.app/profile/horrorvanguard.bsky.social www.horrorvanguard.com (This joke about the website being under construction is a hastily made rehashing of the previous four jokes about our website being under construction.) You can support the show for less than the cost of the licensing for footage from the first 3 Friday the 13th movies at www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard Précis music: "Unspoken Pangs" by Aleksis Tristan Shaw (itch.io/profile/aleksis-tristan-shaw). Available for use under the CC BY 4.0 license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), at https://aleksis-tristan-shaw.itch.io/dark-piano-vol-ii

362 - Orca (1977) Review/Preview (Jaws Ripoff Isekai Moby Dick Super Saiyan Possession Movie) May 31, 2025

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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. Discuss your favorite sea life with Horror Vanguard at: bsky.app/profile/horrorvanguard.bsky.social www.horrorvanguard.com (A team of highly trained Orca are hard at work getting the HV website back up and running.) You can support the show for less than the cost of an orca why not at www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard Précis music: "Homeward" by Aleksis Tristan Shaw (itch.io/profile/aleksis-tristan-shaw). Available for use under the CC BY 4.0 license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), at aleksis-tristan-shaw.itch.io/atmospheri…i-fi-music

361 - A Discussion of Select Final Fantasy Titles (House 1985 Review) May 20, 2025

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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? Discuss your favorite derailed Final Fantasy conversations with Horror Vanguard at: bsky.app/profile/horrorvanguard.bsky.social www.horrorvanguard.com (The website is currently a memory of a lost childhood and/or the future and/or a political metaphor I dunno FFVIII is complicated) You can support the show for less than the cost of a Final Fantasy XIV subscription at www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard Précis music: "Corridors LOOP 16bit" by Aleksis Tristan Shaw (itch.io/profile/aleksis-tristan-shaw). Available for use under the CC BY 4.0 license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), at https://aleksis-tristan-shaw.itch.io/dark-piano-vol-i

360 - Alien with Josh Boerman of Worst of All Possible Worlds! May 13, 2025

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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 mechanical keyboards with Horror Vanguard at: bsky.app/profile/horrorvanguard.bsky.social www.horrorvanguard.com (I built the website using an old MU-TH-UR 6000, bear with me) You can support the show for less than the cost of 20 million tons of unprocessed space ore at www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard Précis music: "Moon Base LOOP 16bit" by Aleksis Tristan Shaw (itch.io/profile/aleksis-tristan-shaw). Available for use under the CC BY 4.0 license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), at https://aleksis-tristan-shaw.itch.io/atmospheric-sci-fi-music

359 - A Cure for Wellness Preview (You've Got to Ride the Eel [Mary Todd Lincoln is Real]) May 10, 2025

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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! Discuss the best way to get into medical immortal eel futures during an uncertain market with Horror Vanguard at: bsky.app/profile/horrorvanguard.bsky.social www.instagram.com/horrorvanguard/ www.horrorvanguard.com (maybe work in progress here) You can support the show for less than the cost of one live eternal-life eel at www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard

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