Horror Report

Day: October 23, 2014

  • Just a few

    Just a few

    Some news and the like making headlines today..

    A Saudi cleric is making worldwide news for condeming Twitter and calling it evil.. Meanwhile his nation continues to punish people with legal beheadings and will not let women drive.. One man’s pain is another man’s pleasure, I suppose. Tweet away Meryl..

    This is the photo of the man who reportedly caused terror in Canada.. But where did the photo of Michael Zehaf-Bibeau come from? ISIS.. and who took it?

    Friday night frights on hold for the lights.. Halloween falls on a Friday this year (no, not the 13th as that stupid MEME says) .. but this year people are choosing football over trick or treating.

    MAJOR ED DAMES fans are freaking.. There is a monster sunspot on the sun right now.. Stan Deyo is among those broadcasting some kill shot fears.. What is known of sunspot 2192: Solar activity is high. There have been giant Mclass and Xclass flares, but none of the sun burts have mitted a CME. Yet.. But the active region is turning towards the earth.. and that sunspot is massive.. The best resource to follow regarding this and other issues with the sun: http://solarham.net/

    Renee Zellweger looks strange to fans. But there is a chance her new face is just one that occurred naturally..

  • Making the horror lists: Why I deplore this annual trend

    Making the horror lists: Why I deplore this annual trend

    It is that annoying time of year again

    I love Halloween.. don’t get me wrong. But I disdain when we get yearly “lists” of the best horror girls, the best horror movies, the best victims in horror movies, the best kills, and now the newest from Entertainment WEEKLY: THE BEST SLASHER FLICKS..

    First off, let’s get real.. anyone who promotes these lists does it at times when the iron is hot: Halloween is when you’d most likely click on a link that will purport to tell you what the ‘best’ slashers are.. And typically, at least in this case, you’re going to get any new information. What you will read is going to be regurgitated sameness. The movies that make the list are predictable..

    The only reason lists like these are promoted is for web hits and, from the site’s perspective, schmucks who will accidentally click on banner ads populated throughout the website..

    So what are EW’s slasher flicks featured?

    FRIDAY the 13th.. No big shock.. SCREAM.. nothing new. PSYCHO.. yawn.. TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE…sigh.. And of course HALLOWEEN, because it’s HALLOWEEN and EW knows that posting a few shots of Michael Myers near the end of October will get hits.

    So often when it comes to lists like this—not just about horror but, say, lists of Jennifer Anniston’s hair style on the anniversary date of FRIENDS first airing—we realize that nothing online is new.. pop culture trends escape the big sites.. Instead they hope that lists of this nature will fill the void of reporting..

    I especially hate the sites that make you continuously click arrows to get more of the list. I give up after one click..

    Not EW didn’t do that. Instead a sub par attempt was made at new content.

    It just seems to be that we get the same old thing over and over and over and over and over again….