john carpenter

Film & TV: Escape from L.A.

TLS joins known badass, Snake Plissken, in an absurd though somewhat entertaining romp through John Carpenter’s mid 90s vision of a dystopian America.
[Aggregate score: 6]

Film & TV: Halloween (2018)

Just in time to lead into our annual MOTS-O-Ween marathon, the latest entry in the grandfather of horror franchises returns for the modern age and manages to recapture what made it great in the first place.  [Aggregate score: 9.5]

 

Literature: Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell

The Lost Signals try to discern who is real and who is not in their analysis of John W. Campbell’s (writing as Don A. Stuart) classic tale, “Who Goes There?” [Aggregate score: 8]

 

 

MOTS-O-Ween 2016 finale: Halloween 2

10/31/16

Happy Halloween! It is time for The Lost Signal’s MOTS-o-Ween finale, our annual review of a movie in the Halloween film series. Paging Dr. Myers, Dr. Myers to surgery.

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.

 

The MOTSoween Extravaganza Finale

10/31/15

Join us on Halloween for our review of one of the all time classics, you guessed it, Halloween! Michael Myers and MOTS, a match made in heaven.