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

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... 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

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

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

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

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

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

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/ Discuss the poetry of the gothic and the gothic of poetics 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 I dunno really like half an egg at this point at www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard 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! Discuss HAIR METAL BABY YEAH 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 MAKING THE SCARIEST MOVIE EVER HAVE YOU SEEN IT CLICK HERE >>> at www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard 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. Discuss barefoot podcasting with Horror Vanguard at: bsky.app/profile/horrorvanguard.bsky.social www.instagram.com/horrorvanguard/ You can support the show for less than the cost of MAKING THE PERFECTLY SILENT ENTIRELY NOISELESS GRAIN SILO at www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard

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! Check out librarypunk on your podcast app of choice and on their website: http://librarypunk.gay/ Discuss other haphazard zombie makeup applications with Horror Vanguard at: bsky.app/profile/horrorvanguard.bsky.social www.instagram.com/horrorvanguard/ www.horrorvanguard.com You can support the show for less than the cost of every single practical zombie effect used in My Boyfriend's Back at www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard