Horror Report

Year: 2018

  • PD: Two Satan-worshiping girls planned to kill middle school classmates, drink victims’ blood

    PD: Two Satan-worshiping girls planned to kill middle school classmates, drink victims’ blood

    PD: Two Satan-worshiping girls planned to kill middle school classmates, drink victims’ blood:

    VERY DISTURBING NEWS FROM FLORIDA:

    Police say two middle school girls, who worship Satan, armed themselves with knives in a foiled plot to violently kill classmates and drink their blood at school on Tuesday.

    The 6th and 7th-grade girls attend Bartow Middle School, police say. At 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, the Bartow Police School Resource Officer assigned to the school was summoned to the principal’s office in reference to an armed juvenile complaint.

    The investigation revealed that the students armed themselves with knives, and planned on attacking fellow students during the school day.

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  • James Karen, the instantly recognizable character actor who…

    James Karen, the instantly recognizable character actor who…

    James Karen, the instantly recognizable character actor who moved the cemetery’s headstones — but not the bodies — as the developer Mr. Teague in the modern horror classic Poltergeist, has died. He was 94.

    The incredibly prolific Karen, who also was noteworthy in such films as The China Syndrome (1979) and The Return of the Living Dead (1985) and on the finale of NBC’s Little House on the Prairie — he’s the dastardly reason the town of Walnut Grove was blown up — died Tuesday at his Los Angeles home, his wife, Alba, said.

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  • A couple says they were mock raped at the ‘Akron Fright Fest’ haunted house,…

    A couple says they were mock raped at the ‘Akron Fright Fest’ haunted house,…

    A couple says they were mock raped at the ‘Akron Fright Fest’ haunted house, didn’t sign waiver

    Dateline Ohio:

    “There was a man in a mask standing over my boyfriend, my boyfriend was on the edge and he was being pushed down,” said Sarah Lelonek.

    “She comes over and yells, stop, what are you doing? That’s my boyfriend,” said Lelonek’s boyfriend Ryan Carr. “Not anymore, he’s mine now I’m going to rape him and then he started thrusting against me.”

    The couple says this all went down at the Akron Fright Fest, which is housed on the Kim Tam Park property. They say this is not the special haunted house where you had to sign a waiver to enter, although they do offer a haunted house like that on the property.

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  • NICK POPE ARGUES THAT THE TERM “UFO” IS OBSOLETE

    NICK POPE ARGUES THAT THE TERM “UFO” IS OBSOLETE

    Pope wrote his reasoning in the GUARDIAN

    A first step in reframing the debate might be changing the language. The term “UFO” has become as obsolete and baggage-laden as the now largely-defunct “flying saucer”. Both are widely, but wrongly, regarded as being synonymous with “extraterrestrial spacecraft”, when self-evidently all the phrase should mean is something in the sky that the observer cannot identify. When the question “do you believe in UFOs?” is misinterpreted as “do you think we’re being visited by aliens?” then we clearly have a problem.

    We addressed this in the MoD in the 1990s by replacing “UFO” with “UAP”, for Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. It got us increased funding and made a few senior officials take the matter more seriously, because they felt we were looking at a science problem, not a science fiction mystery.

    AND MORE…

    During Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, for which Podesta was the campaign chair, she occasionally discussed UAPs and in one interview on the Jimmy Kimmel show she corrected the host for using the term “UFO”. We have yet to learn what Donald Trump thinks about UAPs, but his enthusiasm for a Space Force has certainly created a few conspiracy theories.

    When it comes to UAPs, truth really is stranger than fiction. It turns out that AATIP was largely the brainchild of the then Senate majority leader Harry Reid, and that much of the work was contracted out to Bigelow Aerospace, run by former budget hotel magnate (and believer in extraterrestrial visitation) Robert Bigelow. A 2009 letter from Harry Reid about AATIP reads like science fiction in places.

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  • Hackensack man has eaten pizza every day for over 30 yearsOn the podcast, Roman said that his mother…

    Hackensack man has eaten pizza every day for over 30 yearsOn the podcast, Roman said that his mother…

    Hackensack man has eaten pizza every day for over 30 years

    On the podcast, Roman said that his mother gave in to his picky eating, allowing him to eat only pizza for dinner. In his grade school days, Roman mixed that up with a peanut butter sandwich every day for lunch. But when he entered the work force he started dining out for lunch — at pizza joints.

    Now, he’s back to peanut butter and bread for lunch. But the fact remains that he not only ate pizza for dinner for over 30 years, he also ate it for lunch for at least a good 10 of those.

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  • The remains of a 10-year-old biting on a stone have been…

    The remains of a 10-year-old biting on a stone have been…

    The remains of a 10-year-old biting on a stone have been unearthed by archaeologists in a fifth century Italian cemetery, evidence suggesting a “vampire burial” to prevent the child’s return from the dead.

    In northern Italy, where the discovery was made, they are calling it the “Vampire of Lugnano.“

    “I’ve never seen anything like it. It’s extremely eerie and weird,” said University of Arizona archaeologist David Soren, who has overseen archaeological excavations at the site since 1987.

    Evidence collected from the bones suggest the child was infected with malaria at the time it died, The Independent reported.

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  • NEWS ROUNDUP SUNDAY OCTOBER 21 2018

    NEWS ROUNDUP SUNDAY OCTOBER 21 2018

    PROJECTIONS: As reported by Billboard, Halloween pulled in $33.3 million from 3,928 theaters. Projections have the film amassing $80 million by the close of the weekend, which would place Halloween in a tie for the best October movie opening weekend. The record of $80 million was just set two weeks ago by Venom. October is known for being a slow month at the box office, but Venom and Halloween helped breathe life into the dormant sales.
    Danny Leiner, who directed the popular slacker comedies Dude, Where’s My Car? and Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, has died. He was 57. Leiner died Thursday at his home in Los Angeles after a long battle with cancer, his brother, Ken, told The Hollywood Reporter.
    DATELINE A CALIFORNIA FARM: Kings County Sheriff’s Office, California, received an unusual call on October 18 from a walnut farmer who claimed to have found a strange, large metal object of unknown origin that had smashed into his orchard, local news outlet Kron4 reported, citing the sheriff’s office. When officers arrived at the site, they found a helmet-like, charred, metallic object and assumed that it was part of a satellite.
    A small space rock made an extremely close approach yesterday (October 19, 2018). The close flyby of Asteroid 2018 UA occurred just hours after being detected by the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona. Limited observations did not allow for precise trajectory calculations, but estimates suggest the small asteroid passed at a distance between 4,536 miles to 9,540 miles (7,300 km to 15,353 km) from Earth’s surface. For comparison, meteorological and television satellites orbit at some 22,300 miles (35,888 km) from our planet’s surface, which means the asteroid’s approach was one of the closest registered.
  • Full synopsis of first live action TEEN TITANS GO premiereIn the…

    Full synopsis of first live action TEEN TITANS GO premiereIn the…

    Full synopsis of first live action TEEN TITANS GO premiere

    In the series premiere episode, Rachel Roth, a guarded teenager haunted by dark visions and powers, flees her home in Traverse City, Michigan when her life is threatened by a mysterious intruder. Arriving in Detroit, she falls under the protective wing of Detective Dick Grayson, who’s moonlighting as the dangerous vigilante, Robin – now independent of his longtime partnership with Batman in Gotham. Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, the mysterious Kory Anders awakens – untouched – from a car crash with no memory of her identity. Following leads to Russian club-owner Konstantin Kovar (MARK ANTONY KRUPA), she learns that she also is pursuing the girl known as Rachel Roth. Lastly, in Ohio, we meet Gar Logan, the mischievous Beast Boy who uses his transformative powers to his advantage

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  • Missing Saudi journalist ‘recorded his own death on his Apple Watch’

    Missing Saudi journalist ‘recorded his own death on his Apple Watch’

    Missing Saudi journalist ‘recorded his own death on his Apple Watch’:

    Missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi may have recorded his own death on his Apple Watch, it has been claimed.

    He turned on the recording function on the device before walking into the Saudi Arabia embassy in Istanbul on October 2, according to Turkish newspaper Sabah.

    Then his ‘interrogation, torture and killing were audio recorded and sent to both his phone and to iCloud’, the newspaper report.

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  • The HALLOWEEN 40 review. Spoilers included

    The HALLOWEEN 40 review. Spoilers included

    Halloween fans have been waiting for the moment.. John Carpenter retiring to assist in the re-creation, re-direction, re-imaging of the original 1978 classic 40 years later.  Finally, it is being released in box offices nationwide. A few early releases occurred last night.

    In estimates Friday morning, Universal/Miramax/Blumhouse’s Halloween is being projected by our industry sources at around $10M, which arguably is the second-best preview night for a horror pic after New Line’s It banked $13.5M from 3,500 theaters on Sept 7, 2017.

    And being that I am not from an elite crowd of reporters or paid reviewers, I had to wait for the early showings Thursday evening.


    ….without further ado, spoilers included, my thoughts on HALLOWEEN 40.


    Quite frankly.. they should have left it just be.

    First the two main positive takeaways from the film: The soundtrack was amazing. John Carpenter’s modernized versions of the sounds of Halloween’s score was dynamic and at times an homage to the past coupled with breathtaking synthesized sounds of the modern era. It is not to be dismissed.. On a scale of ten, the soundtrack is a ten–the movie not so much.


    The other part of the film that I absolutely positive adored and loved was the opening credit roll .. (NOT THE OPENING SCENE, we will get there in one minute) ..The opening credits featured the piano version of the Halloween theme blasting in stereo across the theater with a lifeless smashed pumpkin slowly coming back to shape — almost a metaphor that the “Shape” is rising again.  Halloween fans will most assuredly love that they began the film the same way the original began, with the pumpkin and music. It created an immediate eerie feel in the theater.. people’s tension, watching the credits roll with that classic song in forcing itself into their heads like a freight train, was palpable. 


    This movie, it would seem, was going to be something.


    And something it sure was.

    I gave the soundtrack a ten out of ten earlier.


    I will give the movie a 2 out of 10. It would have been a 1 if it wasn’t for Jamie Lee Curtis’ performance. 

    The movie’s premise opens with this: Podcasters somehow were able to snatch the original Shatner mask away from their “friends at the attorney general’s office” .. The unlikely leak only goes further as the newer doctor who takes over for Loomis allow the podcasters to enter the grounds of Smiths Grove to interview Michael Myers. He allows them to hold up the mask to him..he allows them to rile up the entire set of patients who are chained to the concrete ground. The scene was ridiculous … the plot line of podcasters snatching the mask was actually just stupid for me, for the lack of a better word.


    We travel now to the world of Laure Strode. She suffers from the trauma of 1978. She has also built a fortress and collected guns in order to battle Myers when he comes back — she lived her life knowing he would apparently. 

    Her family is a wreck with mental strife.. the clear indications of PTSD are evident. Her performance in the film was formidable. She was good. She was the only piece of acting that saved the movie from a downright 0 out of 10 for me!

    Cutting to the chase, a bus crashed. Myers escaped. The podcasters are killed. He gets his mask back. Myers kills yet another gas station attendant and gets his suit back. He stalks the neighborhood during trick or treating…

    Here are where two problems start and never stop.

    In the original Halloween, the magic was not seeing Myers’ face. It was knowing that the SHAPE stalked ..that the Shape watched.. that the Shape took measured time to plot out a strategy of fearful killing. In this film? He randomly goes house to house racking up a largely ridiculous high amount of bodies in his path. Murders for no reason.. murders just or the sake of pleasing the audience of blood thirsty gore fans that will likely litter this weekend’s movie theaters.

    The other portion that, maybe someone will debate me on, is Myers’ first murder A child. Horror fans and critics have long debated how children and death should be treated in movies. This film utilizes that and immediately showcases Myers as a heartless demon who will even kill a child to get where he needs to go.   If the movie was good, I could forgive that. The movie is abominable, so I can only further say that the kid-kill was a misstep in a series of them.

    Flash forward to the movie sequence of events, which gets even more ridiculous:  A set of comedy lines in the midst of tragedy did not seem to flow. Neither did the oddly choreographed high school dance scene that left viewers wondering why they couldn’t be in a high school that looked like that. A doctor who decides he wants to put on Michael Myers’ mask and kill..and an ending scene that seemed so rushed and so not inclusive of the nostalgia of the original. 

    And what do you have?
    In my humble opinion you have a train wreck of rubbish.
    Suffering garbage that stunk the theater to high heaven.

    But an amazing soundtrack. A 10 out of 10. The new theme songs for modern Halloween! But sadly not the movie to go with it.

    This season, if you want a good scare, check out Netflix’ HAUNTED HILLS HOUSE. I will review that further once my bingeing on it completes. 

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