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275 - Twin Peaks Retrospective! Season 2, Episode 10 "The Man Behind The Glass"

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 at Laura's grave is worthy of a few episodes of discourse 👻 🪦

2023-07-06 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post

274 - Twin Peaks Retrospective! Season 2, Episode 9 "Coma"

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."

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272 - Straw Dogs & Eden Lake Double Feature Review!

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 out just what we think of Eden Lake...

2023-06-30 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post

Your Ghosts on Other Shows!


Ash 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!   

https://totalliberationpodcast.com/96-post-veganism-beyond-the-diet-w-ash/

2023-06-29 15:07:05 +0000 UTC View Post

272 - Cthulhu (2007) With Sean from Wyrd_Signal!

(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)!

🏳️‍🌈 🐙 🏳️‍🌈

🎃 Keep up with Sean and Wyrd_Signal
2023-06-27 18:16:50 +0000 UTC View Post

Twin Peaks Retrospective Season 2: May The Giant Be With You!

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!


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270 - Tár (Jon's Birthday Review!)

It's Jon's birthday so we're choosing an uplifting, feel-good movie that is definitely not a controversial downer!

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269 - Poltergay with Jay from librarypunk, John Leavitt, and Kyle Kern!

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
twitter.com/librarypunk
2023-06-09 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post

Early Access! 268 - Tonight It's A World We Bury & Trick Or Treat (1986) with Bill Peel!

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: repeaterbooks.com/product/tonight-…a-world-we-bury/

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May Bonus Episode! 267 - Skinamarink (Your Ghosts Get Skinamarinked!)


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...

2023-05-26 16:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post

There are CRIMES in this future!? (Episode 266 Early Access!)

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!

2023-05-19 14:59:01 +0000 UTC View Post

265 - First Reformed Review Early Access!

Theology, environmentalism, and hot button political issues! We're talking First Reformed—the most Jon movie possible!?!?!

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264 - The Black Guy Dies First Interview with Mark H. Harris!


Today, your ghosts are joined by Mark H. Harris, co-author of The Black Guy Dies First!

Find Mark H. Harris online at:
twitter.com/blacula
www.blackhorrormovies.com/

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M3gan with Olivia Snow!

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: www.wired.com/story/lensa-artifi…intelligence-csem/

Connect with Sow at: 2023-04-28 12:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post

The Dunwich Horror (April Bonus Episode)

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!

2023-04-21 21:42:49 +0000 UTC View Post

261 - Threads


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 80s, and Sheffield as we review Threads!

2023-04-14 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post

260 - The Ten Commandments

Unions, the Catholic Workers, liberation theology, VINCENT PRICE?

Wander through the discourse with us during our review of The Ten Commandments! 

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259 - Knife + Heart Review!

Today we're reviewing one of the most requested movies we get... Knife + Heart! 

Come for the discourse, stay for the puns! 

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258 - Event Horizon Bonus Episode

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! 

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257 - Treeple Feature Review: Trees, Trees 2: The Root Of All Evil, & Treevenge!

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! 

2023-03-17 11:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post

Early Access! 256 - Killing Of A Sacred Deer 🎯 🦌 (Do We Like This Movie And Does That Matter?)

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 literally 0 deer in this movie.

2023-03-10 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post

255 - An Interview With The Authors Of We Are The Mutants!

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!

wearethemutants.com/

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BONUS EPISODE: GDT's Most Troubled Film: MIMIC


Let's find a new hope in a world of bugs and broken down subway cars. 

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Early Access for The Creeping Garden!


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!

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Episode 252 Early Access!

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:


https://twitter.com/_WildeAtHeart

https://linktr.ee/jlcolbert

https://www.patreon.com/wild...

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Viy With Alexander Herbert!

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: www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-bo...

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BONUS EPISODE - 250 - Wednesday Season 1

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! 

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Early Access: 249 - Super Mario Bros with John Leavitt!

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:

www.Leavittalone.com

on Twitter: twitter.com/LeavittAlone

2023-01-20 18:54:09 +0000 UTC View Post

January 2023 Upcoming Events!

Hey 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! 

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/celestial-vomit-the-utopian-ontology-of-slime-tickets-501897608...

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Early Access for Episode 248 - Watership Down!

Prepare to cry... and talk about cartoon bunnies. 


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