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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! Do you have a graduate degree in something tree-related, follow us on social media: twitter.com/HorrorVanguard www.instagram.com/horrorvanguard/ You can support the show for less than the cost of getting us to not make tree-related puns at www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard

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. If you know where we can find a deer, follow us on social media: twitter.com/HorrorVanguard www.instagram.com/horrorvanguard/ You can support the show for less than the cost of a one actual deer at www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard

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! https://wearethemutants.com/ Grab a copy of this ghoulish tome: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/we-are-the-mutants-the-battle-for-hollywood-from-rosemarys-baby-to-lethal-weapon/ If you're a mutant, follow us on social media: twitter.com/HorrorVanguard www.instagram.com/horrorvanguard/ You can support the show for less than the cost of a blockbuster Hollywood production at www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard

Guillermo del Toro could have written Metamorphosis, but Kafka could have never directed The Shape of Water... Today we're diving into GDT's most troubled film: Mimic. We watched the 2011 Director's Cut and, like GDT, we found healing amongst giant CGI bug mutants. Follow us on social media to join a secret network of sentient bugs: twitter.com/HorrorVanguard www.instagram.com/horrorvanguard/ You can support the show for less than the cost of rehabilitating your city's subterranean transit network at www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard

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! Follow us on social media for wave after wave of slime: twitter.com/HorrorVanguard www.instagram.com/horrorvanguard/ You can support the show for less than the cost of realizing the value of slime after you've lost it at www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard

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/wildeatheart https://wilde-at-heart.garden https://www.librarypunk.gay Follow us on social media for possibly future opera reviews: twitter.com/HorrorVanguard www.instagram.com/horrorvanguard/ You can support the show for less than the cost of an acoustically transparent minotaur mask at www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard

February is here and we're warming things up by talking about a late-Soviet folk horror film: Viy! We're joined by Alexander Herbert, author of Fear Before The Fall: Horror Films in the Late Soviet Union! Buy a copy of Fear Before The Fall here: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/fear-before-fall-horror-films-late-soviet-union Keep up with Alex's work here: https://twitter.com/alextherbert https://www.instagram.com/punksaround/ https://www.redinkri.org Follow us on social media to become a philosopher: twitter.com/HorrorVanguard www.instagram.com/horrorvanguard/ You can support the show for less than the cost of joining a rectory and spending years studying philosophy only to be bested by a vengeful witch at www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard

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! Follow us on social media to find the meaning of family: twitter.com/HorrorVanguard www.instagram.com/horrorvanguard/ You can support the show for less than the cost of sending your kid to an elite private school in the Hamptons at www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard

It'sa me, one of the most infamous video game movies of all time! We're joined by John Leavitt to talk about Super Mario Bros! ...and don't you worry, it's got slime monsters, body horror, and the dreaded ludo-narrative, so there's plenty of chills and thrills to go around! Take a strange journey with John Leavitt: www.Leavittalone.com on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LeavittAlone Follow us on social media for more kaizo film discussions! twitter.com/HorrorVanguard www.instagram.com/horrorvanguard/ You can support the show for less than the cost of one DVD copy of Super Mario Bros after the new movie comes out at www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard

In the gloomy depths of January, we decided to brighten things up with a classic animated film about little bunnies and their wild adventures! So we watched Watership Down. Oh no! Follow us on social media for the latest in cuniculture! twitter.com/HorrorVanguard www.instagram.com/horrorvanguard/ You can support the show for less than the cost of one traumatic childhood cartoon at www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard

Season 1 of our Twin Peaks Retrospective comes to a close with Episode 7 "The Last Evening." Things might seem like they are wrapping up, but they are really only beginning... Join us for episode 8 of our complete retrospective on everything Twin Peaks: Episode 7 "The Last Evening" Diane, remind me to follow Horror Vanguard on social media: twitter.com/HorrorVanguard www.instagram.com/horrorvanguard/ www.horrorvanguard.com You can support the show for less than the cost of a damn fine cup of coffee at www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard

January stays spooky with a dive into Nobuhiko Obayashi's Hausu! Cats, TV commercials, and ghastly real-estate, what's not to love? Want to get the best advice on how to flip a haunted house? Follow us on social media: twitter.com/HorrorVanguard www.instagram.com/horrorvanguard/ You can support the show for less than the cost of one watermelon at www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard

We're starting off the new year with a trip to a ghoulish gym of fitness discourse! Friend of the show Dave Billig AKA "LaborLifts" sets up their spooky squat rack in the Horror Vanguard Crypt to discuss Shinichi Fukazawa's 1995 film Bloody Muscle Body Builder in Hell! Keep up with Dave's work: https://twitter.com/LaborLifts https://davebillig.com Follow us on social media to bulk out your brain muscle! twitter.com/HorrorVanguard www.instagram.com/horrorvanguard/ You can support the show for less than the cost of a gym membership at www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard

Everything is coming to a head and Jon and Ash actually get to use their graduate degrees in gothic studies! Give yourself a little gift today and listen to this episode. Join us for episode 7 of our complete retrospective on everything Twin Peaks: Episode 6 "Realization Time" Diane, remind me to follow Horror Vanguard on social media: twitter.com/HorrorVanguard www.instagram.com/horrorvanguard/ www.horrorvanguard.com You can support the show for less than the cost of a damn fine cup of coffee at www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard

Our yearly Christmas movie is here and this time it's also kind of a sequel to I Know Who Killed Me? Kyle Kern brought us I Know Who Killed Me so he's back for another movie involving Lindsay Lohan, doppelgängers, and amnesia! Why does this keep happening? Let's find out! Keep up with Kyle's work: www.patreon.com/laborkyle twitter.com/laborkyle www.youtube.com/laborkyle www.twitch.tv/laborkyle Follow us on social media for likely more reviews of movies wherein Lindsay Lohan plays a character who swaps bodies with someone else... twitter.com/HorrorVanguard www.instagram.com/horrorvanguard/ You can support the show for less than the cost of running a cute BNB www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard

Our Twin Peaks Retrospective continues with a discussion on Cooper's Dream. It seems as if your ghosts, I mean hosts, aren't as free from the lodge as they had hoped... Join us for episode 6 of our complete retrospective on everything Twin Peaks: Episode 5 "Cooper's Dream" Diane, remind me to follow Horror Vanguard on social media: twitter.com/HorrorVanguard www.instagram.com/horrorvanguard/ You can support the show for less than the cost of a damn fine cup of coffee at www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard

The only thing better than picking our best movies of 2022 is having meta-discourse on the formal construction of "best of" lists! Follow us on social media for more film criticism meta-discourse: twitter.com/HorrorVanguard www.instagram.com/horrorvanguard/ You can support the show for less than the cost of melting down your solid gold Movie of the Year Obelisk at www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard

Possession is a grueling journey through Cold War European politics, cataclysmic familial breakdowns, and otherworldly monsters, so what better film is there to kick off the 2022 holiday season‽ Seeking a monstrous squid-beast near you? Follow us on social media: twitter.com/HorrorVanguard www.instagram.com/horrorvanguard/ You can support the show for less than the cost of full-time child care for you and your doppelgängers at www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard

Are we being introduced against our will? What do guns have to do with love? We need to talk psychiatry in Twin Peaks and was that a llama? Join us for episode 5 of our complete retrospective on everything Twin Peaks: Episode 4 "The One-Armed Man" Diane, remind me to follow Horror Vanguard on social media: twitter.com/HorrorVanguard www.instagram.com/horrorvanguard/ You can support the show for less than the cost of a damn fine cup of coffee at www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard

Our journey through the films of Herschell Gordon Lewis continues! We're wrapping up the Blood Trilogy (also called the Gore Trilogy) with Color Me Blood Red! We're joined by writer, historian, and left media all-star Kyle Kern to bring the Floridaman insight the HV crypt so desperately needs! Keep up with Kyle's work: www.patreon.com/laborkyle twitter.com/laborkyle www.youtube.com/laborkyle www.twitch.tv/laborkyle Follow us on social media for the best in swamp cinema: twitter.com/HorrorVanguard www.instagram.com/horrorvanguard/ You can support the show for less than the cost of going to Florida at www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard