Horror Report

Day: September 26, 2014

  • HORROR SINKS TO NEW LOWS

    HORROR SINKS TO NEW LOWS

    FORBES: The Scary Future Of The Hollywood Horror Film »

    2014 has been a pretty lousy year for theatrical horror films. Is it merely a fluke of the calendar, or a sign of things to come?

    Maybe a sign of things to come if things to come don’t improve, moviewise.

    It’s been a bad year all around for films .. in general. Not just horror, but drama, action, family.. You know the genre and I’ll name the flop, or the film that underperformed at the box office. At least in the United States.

    There are a few cultural things happening. China and other nations increasing in wealth are fast becoming the target audience for many movie companies. That’s why China’s censors get such ability in choosing what should be cut from certain films. Even more than that, independent films are just better lately. More imaginative and fresh, less confined and restricted by the red tape and bureaucracy that Hollywood offers filmmakers.

    But .. as far as horror itself, Scott Mendelson is correct in his FORBES story.. Horror is taking a hit.

    There may be one external factor causing that..

    Over the past 12 or so years, movies have ramped up the blood and gore, almost making that the central point of a movie overtop of even the actors or dialogue. And with news headlines and real life events being a hell of a lot scarier than any fiction on the screen, people just aren’t buying it ..  What does sell, though, are paranormal tales of demon possession, haunted houses and haunted dolls. The CONJURING did well. I think ANNABELLE will, too..

    The audience is evolving, as it does every ten or so years.

    This may have becoming a tired saying on my part, but I argue that horror movies and professional wrestling speak volumes about our pop culture at any given time you look at it. In this instance, our world is violent and bloody. So gore doesn’t scare people much more anymore, they frankly are tired of seeing it. What does scare them? The idea that someone dark and sinister is present in the world.

    If movie makers can key in on that fear and create new and exciting movies, then it will be a hit.

    Finally, I’d dare say that if some movie maker out there created a big studio version of SLENDERMAN, a new series would be born.

    Until then… it’s no go for bad movies.

  • Tis the season for ghosts on camera, fa la la la la, la la la la

    Tis the season for ghosts on camera, fa la la la la, la la la la

    Police Officer: I captured ghost on camera »

    A police officer from Espanola, New Mexico, says he captured a ghost on camera while on duty.

    The video is quite convincing actually.

    Police are notorious for being a little paranormal…. sometimes sitting in their squad cars late at night, listening to talk radio, especially Coast to Coast AM, letting the bumps in the night rattle them a bit.

    But even with that said, the video that this police office thinks contains a ghost clearly does contain.. something. And it’s not a person, or a moth, or anything much with a form. It’s … a light. Or a figure.. or something.

    Or a ghost.

    Tis the season…October is here.

    And paranormal is in the news again.

  • Breathing uneasy

    Breathing uneasy

    The New York TIMES reports on the respiratory virus hitting the US: An outbreak of respiratory illness first observed in the Midwest has spread to 38 states, sending children to hospitals and baffling scientists trying to understand its virulent resurgence. »

    Even more information shows that this virus, when it hits towns and cities, is causing an influx of child patients with breathing problems—an influx that often far outweighs the resources of the facility..

    From the Catherine Saint Louis article:

    “Parents would love to know why this virus is causing severe disease and why there are more cases,” said Rafal Tokarz, an associate research scientist at Columbia University who has studied the virus, “but we won’t be able to answer that until a lot more research is done.”

    From Aug. 18 to Sept. 24, roughly 3,600 children were treated at emergency and urgent-care facilities at Children’s Hospital Colorado. Most were sent home, but roughly 10 percent were hospitalized because they needed continuous breathing treatment, supplemental oxygen, or even to be placed on a ventilator in the intensive-care unit.

    The hospital has had a “bed crunch” and is struggling to maintain supplies of albuterol, a rescue medication used by asthma sufferers, said Dr. Christine Nyquist, the director for infection prevention and control.

    Oh yes.. albuterol was a friend of my own family throughout the first year and a half of my son’s life.. He had some very bad cases of somethings—something that could not be really explained by doctors.. We made some ER trips late at night throughout my son’s first and second years of life.. Each time we’d be sent home with a diagnosis of ‘something’.. At one point asthma was blamed, but he does not have that.. however albuterol and a nebulizer were purchased and are always on standby for the next necessary night.

    Last night, it was reported that the virus has spread to Maryland..

    There are some common sense ways to protect yourself.

    And finally, as reported yesterday, it would appear that the children being hit hardest by EV-D68 are the vaccinated.. 

    And this tonight:

    Health officials are investigating nine cases of muscle weakness or paralysis in Colorado children and whether the culprit might be a virus causing severe respiratory illness across the country. »

    This is getting intense—and pretty scary to be perfectly honest.

    This from the AP news dispatch tonight..

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday sent doctors an alert about the polio-like cases and said the germ – enterovirus 68 – was detected in four out of eight of the sick children who had a certain medical test. The status of the ninth case is unclear.

    Polio-like!?

    And the AP goes on to report:

    Investigators don’t think it’s polio – eight of the nine children are up to date on polio vaccinations

    …Okay.. take a breather, but I am going to re-re-remind you of something  have linked to for days now: The vaccinated are being hit the hardest by this illness. 

    I am not a doctor, an expert.. just an observer. And I am observing something really bizarre happening concerning this virus..

  • FIREBALL ALLEY

    FIREBALL ALLEY

    There have been four fireballs seen in the Eastern United States in just the past 24 hours. 

    The info:

    This has not been the first rash of fireballs sightings. It seems like the pink stars have been falling for some time. Even I have seen a few over the past weeks, some that seemingly were only witnessed by me and a handful of others. Last week, there was one in Florida that was reportedly visible by parts of the entire state as it traveled the sky and left earth’s orbit.

    Makes you wonder and ponder the chances that PLANET X is close.. or just way better reporting with the AMS’ website being the focal point for all observations. And they are good at what they do, tracking the fireballs lightning up and blazing through night skies across the nation..

    But four major fireballs in one 24-hour period? Interesting.
    Isn’t that how TRANSFORMERS started?

  • STOP! The traffic light on Mars!?

    STOP! The traffic light on Mars!?

    There’s been the Mars rat. The Mars face. The Mars figure walking.. the Mars arm.. leg.. You name it.

    And now this: Photos of the red planet are intriguing for people looking close. Now apparently, some would so happen to claim, a street light has been found!

    This random rock formation has become a phenomenon online. And it’s fun.

    But I don’t think Martians would have street lights. I really don’t. That’s too earthly. And anyway, that light clearly looks like it had four bulbs, nothing like us Earthlings’ types.