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MOTS-O-Ween 2016: In the Mouth of Madness

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.

 

Literature: The Shadow Over Innsmouth by H.P. Lovecraft

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.

Literature: The Boogeyman by Stephen King

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?

AFI Top 100 #074: The Silence of the Lambs

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]

Literature: The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allen Poe

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.

AFI Top 100 #065: The African Queen

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

Literature: Lich-House by Warren Ellis

Steven Ormosi evokes William Shatner as he hosts Veronica Hernandez, Scott Thurlow and Jonathan Ian Manczur in a discussion of “Lich-House” by Warren Ellis, a speculative future story involving “smart-houses.”

Literature: Myth Manners’ Guide to Greek Missology #1 by Harry Turtledove

Steven Ormosi hosts, and apologizes during, this discussion of Harry Turtledove’s parody on a Greek Myth with cultural references nearly as old as the original story itself.

With Katie Kelly, Veronica Hernandez, Scott Thurlow and Jonathan Ian Manczur.

Literature: Feliz Aniversário by Clarice Lispector

The Lost Signals crew discusses age, birthday cake and death at obligatory family functions in their discussion of Clarice Lispector’s short story “Feliz Aniversário.”

Veronica Hernandez hosting Katie Kelly, Jonathan Ian Manczur, Steven Ormosi and Scott Thurlow

AFI Top 100 #100: Ben-Hur

Ben-Hur had the largest budget for a movie at that time. I suspect it was mainly due to the fact that Charlton Heston was constantly chewing on the scenery. [Aggregate score: 6.6]