Horror Report

Day: June 4, 2013

  • Latest AP dispatch on MERS

    Latest AP dispatch on MERS

    They report:

    Saudi Arabia has reported that three more people have died from a new respiratory virus related to SARS, bringing the total number of deaths in the kingdom to 24.
    The Ministry of Health said Sunday the three deceased were among 38 infected in the kingdom with the respiratory virus called MERS.

  • Horror Report in the sands of time

    Horror Report in the sands of time

    Actually somewhere in the dirt of the ground…
    A reader from Tennessee set me this amazing photo, apparently he wrote Horror Report somewhere in dirt and decided to snap a photo of it. Thanks Tennessee Phil.

    Thank you, it is appreciated, and it makes me think of a summer mission: Readers out there, send me ‘Horror Report’ written in a strange place and your photo may make my website.. Just spell it right.
    I will accept nudity as long as it is done tastefully.
    If you get a tattoo of my website name I may even consider paying you for the free advertising!

  • The little Horror Reporter battles the weeds

    The little Horror Reporter battles the weeds

  • Today is outrageously beautiful

    Today is outrageously beautiful


    It seriously couldn’t be more beautiful..

  • The biggest tornado ever recorded

    The biggest tornado ever recorded

    This just in from the National Weather Service: The tornado that struck Oklahoma Friday night (and killed 18 people) was the widest ever recorded or observed by the NWS.
    The twister that hit into El Reno, OK, was 2.6 miles wide–that is immense.  It rated an EF5 (the same as the EF5 that hit Moore Oklahoma only days before killing 24, and many children) . . 

    That means that the deadly Friday night tornado was the widest ever recorded..
    And this from the NWS to illustrate it:

  • THE PURGE is coming: Is there a bigger meaning to the movie?

    THE PURGE is coming: Is there a bigger meaning to the movie?

    Imagine a utopia where all are happy, unemployment is basically nonexistent, and there is peace on every street corner. 

    The only think you need to give up for 364 1/2 days of wonder and goodness is one day of violence–the PURGE is born. In this new movie released June 7, the government endorses the PURGE of citizens.. it allows any type of violence you can imagine. Murder, plundering, pillaging, raping.. anything goes. For one day. 

    Ethan Hawke is the star of the flick. In it, he seems convinced, as do all other Americans, that the twisted PURGE sanctioned by the government is not only acceptable but also necessary to maintain order. The nationwide 12-hour crime spree has deadly implications for people in the PURGE, accept for the main character’s family. He built a fortified bunker, one that you can’t enter, or exit. But being a film with  a plot, there is a mistake made by someone in the family, and a streak of morality forces the character’s son to try to help a man being ‘purged.’ Then the choice of the film becomes: Defend the man and risk their lives for 12 hours, or throw him back onto the streets to let him die.. ?


    There are very big moral implications in the PURGE. There are tough questions.. 

    Yes it’s meant to be a summer sci-fi-horror flick, but the entertainment value seems to vanish as you enter into the world of a purge.. 

    There is one fanboy controversy stemming from THE PURGE. There was apparently a STAR TREK plot exceptionally similar to the PURGE’s storyline.. But why would we think any idea is genuine? Even Shakespeare copied, right? …

    The other story of THE PURGE are the voices we hear calling for it to be banned!.. we are seeing some online say that the PURGE should be purged. The argument of Jim Kirwan, as posted on RENSE.COM, is that the PURGE film is going to have some real psychological effects on the nation.. real ones. He writes that the movie is a psy-op that is meant to destroy the fabric of the nation… 

    Expect to hear other voices online saying this.
    The movie is controversial.. It has a controversial word of mouth–and that may do nothing but help the movie itself gain more attention and become a bigger attraction at the box office..

    But real reviews, not the conspiratorial ones, are being written about the film.

    At its best, the film has moments that recall higher-toned dystopian fiction, particularly the cycle of suburban noir reworked over and over again by Ballard in novels like “Running Wild,” “Cocaine Nights” and “Super-Cannes,” as well as trashier movie pleasures like “The Stepford Wives.” Auxiliary prospects could be improved by cult status

    The tension is well sustained and the film is an effective, predictable cross between Assault on Precinct 13 (the remake of which DeMonaco scripted) and Funny Games (the fair-haired preppy leader of the sinister besiegers is a dead ringer for one of the psychopathic kids in Michael Haneke’s film). But it’s an excuse for a great deal of blood-letting rather than an occasion for ethical or political reflection.

    The conclusion suggests that in most circumstances most people will act with extreme moral turpitude. 

    The best American film of the week, The Purge, is an interesting collision of genres. Writer-director James DeMonaco has created a family-in-peril thriller, reminiscent of Panic Room.

    t’s dystopic science fiction, like The Running Man or The Hunger Games. And it strays into the area of horror, like Straw Dogs and Funny Games.
    It’s clever in the way it takes some disagreeable elements from our own time — fear of racial minorities, envy of wealth, needless aggression and gun crime — slightly exaggerates them and projects them into the near future.

    There are two stories in the PURGE. One is the science fiction and horror element that will undoubtedly be eaten up and enjoyed by fans of the genres. The other story, the one perhaps we should pause and consider a little more deeply, is the moral and societal implications of a legalized purge.. and wonder a bit about whether we are already on a dangerous road that this storyline will somehow become a matter of fact in the future…
  • Frustrated incorporated

    Frustrated incorporated

    I had a genuinely epic morning update of news, information, and videos.. and then my computer was handed the dreaded ‘blue screen of death.’ It happens now and then, then it works.
    The bad part of the morning update: I was writing it in basic HTML in NOTEPAD. Hence, the morning update is gone.. And I don’t have the time to re-do it all.. But maybe you can look it up yourself.
    Some highlights:
    Autism may be caused by GMOs…
    Turkey is violent with protests..
    HALLOWEEN, the original VHS, was purchased on eBay for $13,000..
    And lots of other info..
    This was certainly frustrating..

  • Just when you were able to score one for real food, GMO wheat shows up to pollute the rest..

    Just when you were able to score one for real food, GMO wheat shows up to pollute the rest..

    We all know that genetically modified wheat has been found in an Oregon field.. But now we are told that Monsanto is ‘baffled’ .. 
    The almost two-feet plant created by genetic researchers features a new protein called Gliadin in the wheat plant–what will happen to the human body? 
    It may mean we will consume more food because that protein will equal more hunger.. 
    We are not eating food anymore. We are eating genetically changed frankenfood. And that is why it should not be legally in that Oregon field.. 
    Monsanto released a press release stating that they were willing and ready to work with the government on the wheat investigation. Although it may be too late, don’t you think? .. at least Monsanto is ‘baffled.’ With the Monsanto protection act, it does not matter if they are baffled or not..
    And here is why it matters: Japan and Korea have suspended imports of United States soft wheat until they determine that none of the Monsanto garbage has entered their chain.. 
    This is important for two reasons: 
    1) This now has a big economic factor (and Oregon is a huge wheat producer for the world) .. and 2) No one WANTS THIS CRAP. What sells in grocery stores now? Non-GMO, organic, and real healthy food.. Real food. 
    What a premise! 
    Things that were eaten for generations… we want that again. Enough of the toxic weapons.. enough of the sess pool of unhealthy processed goo that line aisles of the story. 
    No, no no.. we want food again. 
    Let’s hope this continues.. 
    Let’s hope that real food wins.