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Early Access for 177!

We're joined by the one, the only LaborKyle to discuss Florida, the South, and Herschell Gordon Lewis's Two Thousand Maniacs! 

Looking to maximize your Florida Man powers? Here's where you can find LaborKyle:

https://www.patreon.com/laborkyle

https://twitter.com/laborkyle

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October Bonus! Episode 176 CABIN IN THE WOODS

Fresh out of our Saw Retrospective, we exercise our new found appreciation for life by watching a movie that absolutely despises horror cinema. 

Apologies for my audio quality in this week's episode. We recorded this while I was still ill and it looks like the bacteria had one last trick up their sleeves. 

SoundCloud: https://...

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More Spooky Season Guest Appearances!

We were summoned by The Left Page to talk about an under appreciated Clive Barker book: Mr. B. Gone! 

Check out the full episode here: leftpage.libsyn.com/episode-47-pod-…-and-labor-kyle

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Early Access for Episode 175: Stalker!

We tag along with some very normal dudes as they backpack through the Estonian countryside and learn that the real reason for their trip was the friendship they had all along. 


SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-317910500/175-stalker/s-7Mk17SZK2sM?si=427bf9d015394e71a175d0496b2c66f7 

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Pay the Ghost on librarypunk!

We went over to librarypunk to talk about the Nicolas Cage movie that no one seems to remember: Pay the Ghost! 

You can find the full episode wherever you summon your podcasts or on their website: https://www.librarypunk.gay/

Follow librarypunk on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/librarypunk 

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Saw Retrospective: IT'S FINALLY OVER!

Spiral is legitimately terrible. Not even fun terrible. Listen to us suffer. 


SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-317910500/173-the-saw-retrospective-finale-spiral-from-the-book-of-saw 

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Look Into the Eyes of a Psycho (Woa-Oh) An American Psycho!

We're looking at one of the classics of horror cinema and seeing what it has to do with shooting Andy Warhol! 


SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-317910500/174-american-psycho-very-normal/s-xnqPE3QMVpj?si=b5bccedc85f44756928035ba96facb86 

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The Saw Retrospective Keeps on Sawing! 🧩

We're almost out! We have one more spooky Saw movie to review and this puppet on a tricycle will let us go. Watching this movie can be best described as "making the wrong choice." 

SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-317910500/171-jigsaw 

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Early Access for an Unexpected Sequel!

We're back and doing a sequel to our original Troll 2 episode. Claudio Fragasso wanted his movie taken seriously? Well, we're going to take it seriously! 

SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-317910500/172-troll-2-trolltal-liberation/s-h81QxyBu14k?si=f72c6448e2ae45939d3eee0e483cc3cc 

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Early Access for Episode 170!

Ash and Jon talk about the real focus of Horror Vanguard: Friendship! That and what horror cinema can tell us about how incredibly weird our historical memory really is. Let's fundamentally fuse the core of our beings in an arcane ritual known as "being friends" and talk about fields! In England! 

SoundCloud Link: https://soundcloud.com/user-317910500/170-a-field-in-englan...

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Saw VII: OH DEAR GOD THIS ENVER ENDS DOES IT?

We're back! Crawling our way through yet another serious of Saw traps. Your ghosts sit down and have about the low point in a franchise (so far) and the ultimate adversary for John Kramer: Clout Posters. 

SoundCloud Link: https://soundcloud.com/user-317910500/169-nice-saw-vii-aka-saw-3d-aka-saw-the-final-chapter

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The Saw Retrospective Continues! Saw VI

Saw V. I. Lenon is here to teach us something about zoos, but we're honestly not sure what. Listen closely as we descend into some kind of half-crazed grunting sounds in an attempt to understanding the sixth Saw movie. 

Someone send us a piranha. 

SoundCloud Zoo: https://soundcloud.com/user-317910500/saw-vi-we-live-in-a-sawciety 

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Episode 168 Early Access! How Spooky! (Ghosts!)

Who wants to talk about the spookiest thing to ever come out of England... THE BRITISH NEWS MEDIA (BOOOOOO!) 


We're talking about a legendary piece of British broadcast media: Ghostwatch! 


SoundCloud Link: https://soundcloud.com/user-317910500/168-ghostwatch/s-qzTsD7hz5jm

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For Reasons We Can't Understand, We're Talking About Saw V!

Well, here we are. One minute we're having a pleasant conversation about political agency with a man in a pig mask and the next thing we know we're chained to a radiator watching Saw V. 

SoundCloud link: https://soundcloud.com/user-317910500/165-saw-the-fifth 

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Early Access for Episode 166!

Get ready for this episode to invade your ears! We've got spiders, we've got preachers, and do we ever have WISCONSIN! 

SoundCloud link: https://soundcloud.com/user-317910500/166-giant-spider-invasion/s-tGeuqkuKbXA 

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The Saw Retrospective Continues!

THE REVENGE OF LE NECKBREAKER! 

SoundCloud link: https://soundcloud.com/user-317910500/163-saw-iv-retrospective 

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Early Access for Episode 164

Episode 164 has us diving into Charlie Kaufman's I'm Thinking of Ending Things.  


SoundCloud Link:  https://soundcloud.com/user-317910500/164-im-thinking-of-ending-things/s-TVvKNUkhAAn 

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Saw III - The Saw Movies Are Basically Soap Operas

I guess, technically, we've now done feel-good movies and soap operas thanks to Saw III. Come for the discourse, stay because you're now bolted to a copy of Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide 1998. 

SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-317910500/161-saw-iii-the-feel-good-movie-of-2006 

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Episode 162 - A Clockwork Orange!

Your bonus episode for August takes us through Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange. What happens when an eccentric American director recreates a British dystopia? Ultra Discourse. 

SoundCloud link: https://soundcloud.com/user-317910500/162-a-clockwork-orange/s-KYO6jm9gZvS 

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Part Two of Our Saw Retrospective!

We journey into the TWISTED world of JIGSAW'S most insidious trap... NU METAL DISCOURSE!  

SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-317910500/159-saw-ii-theorizing-nu-metal-cinema 

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Early Access for Episode 160

Ash and Jon sit down and talk through Joshua Oppenheimer's The Act of Killing.

This is our first documentary. Let us know if you would like to see more innovative definitions of horror / gothic cinema in future episodes. (Namely, more documentaries.) 

This one gets tough in spots. We suggest familiarizing yourself with the documentary and its subject matter before jumping into this episode. We're both going to be processing this experience for a while yet. 

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Saw Retrospective Part I!

Greetings ghouls! 

We're starting off our Saw retrospective! Strap in to your elaborate torture mechanism of choice and start appreciating the joys of film discourse! 

One down, 8 (or 9) more to go! 

SoundCloud link: https://soundcloud.com/user-317910500/158-saw-2004-saw-retrospective-part-i 

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Episode 157 - A Very Spooky Author Interview!

We sat down with Cynthia Cruz, author of The Melancholia of Class, to discuss her latest book, Mod style, and which type of monster the working class actually is. (Hint: It's more than one!)

Get her latest book here: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-melancholia-of-class-a-manifesto-for-the-working-class/ 

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Early Access for Episode 156!

How many corpses should one house have? Zero? Fifty? Well, Rob Zombie says one thousand! 

Join us as we find out why this house has 1000 corpses and what St. Augustine would have to say about that! 

SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-317910500/156-house-of-1000-corpses/s-Vn9M5XcVzGk 

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July's Bonus Episode is Here!

It's here! It's got Tom of Finland references, we throw a little party, and it's one wild ride through genre and history. 

Surfs up! 

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Early Access to Episode 154!

How many organs does the body that is the suburban landscape have? Let's find out! 


SoundCloud Link: https://soundcloud.com/user-317910500/154-the-burbs/s-o0ipixICf6l 

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EPISODE 153 IS HERE!

We are back from our week away and we're refreshed and ready to scare up some cinematic discourse! 

Today we're talking about a classic of the French Fantastique: Les Yeux Sans Visage, or, Eyes Without a Face! Fun fact, this was originally release as a double feature with The Manster under the title "The Horror Chamber of Dr. Faustus!


SoundCloud link: 2021-07-17 04:06:27 +0000 UTC View Post

Behind the Screams! July 5th, 2021

Dear listeners,

I just completed a cross country move and am currently getting settled in a new swampland environment. While we get the crypt ready for new episodes, we’re taking the week off. No new episode this week, but we will resume our regularly scheduled broadcasts on the 14th with early access to our episode on Les Yeux Sans Visage!

Here’s a few things to look forward to that we are currently putting together:

  • A new miniseries that answers horror’s most u...

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Who You Gonna Call?


Here's your bonus episode for June and only a few days behind schedule! We're finally discussing one of our most requested films of all time: Ghostbusters! 

I did this cut while a friend was blasting Black Sabbath, so we unlocked a new cosmic plane here. 

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Behind the Screams!

Good morning ghouls,

I'm currently halfway through a cross country move. I've packed up all my skeletons, books of arcane lore, and one old cat. June's bonus episode will either come out later today or tomorrow and, by Gozer, it's a real banger if I do say so myself. 

Stay Spooky,

Ash

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