Horror Vanguard

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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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

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:

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on Bluesky @bosh.worstpossible.world

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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

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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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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Précis music: "Melancholy" 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-i

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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Précis music: "Bittersweet LOOP 16bit" by Aleksis Tristan Shaw (https://itch.io/profile/aleksis-tristan-shaw). Available for use under the CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), at https://aleksis-tristan-shaw.itch.io/dark-piano-vol-i

We barely contained this one.

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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!

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Never one to cut corners, here's the second ever Horror Vanguard Q&A Episode!

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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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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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