The Lost Signals

10/28/16

Is the television screen truly the retina for the mind’s eye? Is the podcast the drum of the mind’s ear? And, do we all–at last–have special names? Listen as we change the channel for our next MOTS-O-Ween offering as we discuss what is real and what is illusion in David Cronenberg’s “Videodrome.”

10/27/2016

As MOTs-o-Ween 2016 continues, the crew discusses the brilliant and influential, Jacob’s Ladder. Listen in as Steven Ormosi slowly realizes that he has died in a horrible podcasting accident. Who are the angels? Who are the demons? Who is simply a shady Santa Claus? Is Rich Perry the Lost Signals’ Danny Aiello? You decide.

10/26/16

MOTS-O-Ween 2016 continues as we venture through the Gates of Hell (and back?) in our discussion of Lucio Fulci’s 1981 film “The Beyond.”

10/25/16

The crew reviews Joss Whedon’s quintessential horror send up, Cabin in the Woods for MOTS-o-Ween 2016. Watch out for redneck zombie families.

 

10/24/16

The MOTS-O-Ween 2016 week long horror movie marathon kicks off with an oft-overlooked John Carpenter flick, In The Mouth of Madness, a modern Lovecraftian-inspired meta descent into insanity.

 

For the final installment of MOTS Ado Halloween 2016, we attempt to wrestle with insanity-inducing indescribable things in a ‘cosmic horror’ story from the progenitor of the genre.

In this second installment of MOTS Ado for the 2016 Halloween season, we journey into the dark reaches of one man’s closet of horrors in Stephen King’s “The Boogeyman.” Is there actually a monster lurking in the dark or is it only in the mind of a broken man?

Join us for dinner and a movie in a special Halloween episode of The AFI 100. Whether you prefer to flay or to fillet your victims, our discussion of the classic thriller, The Silence of the Lambs, will surely whet your appetite. [Aggregate score: 10]

MOTS Ado starts off the 2016 Halloween season with the first of a series of horror short stories. In this episode, we discuss a classic tale from one of the all-time masters of the craft- Edgar Allen Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death.

The MOTS crew travels up the river on “The African Queen.” Love boat or torpedo boat? Listen and find out. [Aggregate score: 4.6]