mots-o-ween

MOTS-O-Ween 2019: Errementari

TLS makes a deal with a demon to review this dark fairy tale set in Basque country.
[Aggregate score: 9.25]

MOTS-O-Ween 2019: Raaz

Marital problems are compounded by vengeful ghosts when TLS discovers what lies beneath the Bollywood horror scene. [Aggregate score: 3.5]

MOTS-O-Ween 2019: Bad Taste

Two men enter, one brain leaves. Chris and J. Ian fight off nefarious aliens with bizarre humor while discussing this early Peter Jackson flick.[Aggregate score: 6]

MOTS-O-Ween 2019: A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

In the haunting outskirts of Iran, TLS encounters a vampire and the (accidental) drug dealer who loved her.
[Aggregate score: 9]

MOTS-O-Ween 2018: Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954)

In the Amazon jungle, a lonely merman’s paradise is permanently polluted and his courtship curtailed by colonialists with spears, nets, and too many outfits in 1954’s “Creature from the Black Lagoon.” [Aggregate score 5.25]

 

MOTS-O-Ween 2018: The Mummy (1932)

TLS unearths some recurring themes, a couple fine performances and a creepy love triangle from the sarcophagus of 1932’s “The Mummy.” [Aggregate score 6.75]

 

 

MOTS-O-Ween 2018: Frankenstein (1931)

Angry mobs with torches, the titular doctor’s madness and a nameless monster in love, bring discussions of creators and creations in 1931’s “Frankenstein.” [Aggregate score 7.6]

 

MOTS-O-Ween 2018: The Wolf Man (1941)

A new moon, wolfsbane in bloom and a voyeur’s intent is thwarted by a band of gypsies, a wolf and a discussion on the duplicity of the human condition in our review of 1941’s “The Wolf Man.”  [Aggregate score 7.75]

 

MOTS-O-Ween 2018: Dracula (1931)

TLS scare up Universal’s oeuvre of monsters for this year’s MOTS-O-Ween, starting with a discussion of vampires, stalkers and European economics in 1931’s “Dracula” starring Bela Lugosi. Leave the bugs, bring the garlic.  [Aggregate score 8]

 

MOTS-O-Ween 2017: Halloween III: Season of the Witch

For this year’s MOTS-O-Ween finale we take a look at “Halloween III: Season of the Witch,” the left-turn sequel that inspired this year’s theme. Michael Myers sat this one out, and instead we’re given a candy bag full of robot assassins in business suits, Stonehenge core processors, masks to die for, medical mustaches, catchy jingles and a joke on the children.

Happy Halloween!