Horror Report

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  • Bobby the Brain Heenan: The greatest wrestling manager and announcer of all time passes away

    Bobby the Brain Heenan: The greatest wrestling manager and announcer of all time passes away

    Very sad news ..

    Bobby “The Brain” Heenan, quite possibly the best manager and the best color commentator in American pro wrestling history, has died. The news was broken by Jim Ross. According to WWE, Heenan was 73.

    Heenan, a Chicago native, got his start in a pair of Midwestern promotions, the World Wrestling Association and the American Wrestling Association. He was most famous for his run in the World Wrestling Federation, where he managed multiple champions in the 1980s and 1990s in his Heenan Family stable.

    He managed Andre the Giant.. memorable in Wrestlemania 3.. 

    Gorilla Monsoon ‘fired’ him on RAW… 

    Complete gimmicks all the time. Each one more memorable than the previous. 

    His battle with throat cancer was painful for all fans to watch .. but despite his ailments, he still made the autograph circuits fun for anyone who wanted to meet him. He never lost his humor and wit..

    He was one of the main reasons growing up I grew to also love professional wrestling..

    May he Rest In Peace.. 

  • Maria about to become an historic storm of epic proportions..

    Maria about to become an historic storm of epic proportions..

    The year of the hurricane continues ..  

    As of 11 a.m., Maria had grown into a “rapidly intensifying” Category 3 storm with maximum sustained winds of 120 mph and was about 60 miles east of Martinique, a French island that is home to some 400,000 people, the National Hurricane Center said. 

    Maria could grow into a “major hurricane” by Monday night or early Tuesday as it takes aim at Puerto Rico’s southern coast, the hurricane center said…

    This will be he first time since 1928 that Puerto Rico had a cat 4 or 5 storm hit it.. 

    And then? Looking more like landfall along the United States east Coast may occur.. 

  • Just getting around to CHANNEL 0 CANDLE COVE

    Just getting around to CHANNEL 0 CANDLE COVE

    …Late to the game on this.. It has been a tremendously long year with way too many distractions to count.

    But this weekend finally getting accustomed to CHANNEL 0 CANDLE COVE.. It is a SYFY original based on a creepypasta, and it has a good nostalgic ‘stranger things’ type of feel to it.

    Highly recommended from the HORROR REPORT..

    The show only had a few episodes, but was greenlighted for a new season 2..

    Candle Cove (2016)
    A child psychologist (Paul Schneider) returns to his small home town to investigate the mysterious disappearance of his twin brother and a slew of other children in the 1980s, and how it is connected to a bizarre local children’s television show that aired at the same time.

    The No-End House (2017)

    A young woman named Margot Sleator (Amy Forsyth) visits the No-End House, a bizarre house of horrors that consists of a series of increasingly disturbing rooms. When she returns home, Margot realizes everything has changed.
    One part of season 1 that somewhat chilled me a bit was the tooth-child!

    Aside from just the puppets of Candle Cove, Channel Zero’s first season is inhabited by what appears to be a young boy made entirely out of teeth. “So the Tooth Child,” Antosca explained, “came to me in a nightmare. After envisioning this thing, it harkened back the ideas of childhood, of losing your teeth, of growing up, and of having recurring dreams that explored all of these things. When I proposed the idea of the creature, it struck a chord with the writers’ room. We had some fantastic artists, who also worked on Hannibal, create the suit for us and we couldn’t be happier with it. For the record, no those aren’t real teeth.”

    That is frightening an brilliant! It preys on the deepest and darkest fears I have always had as well..

    I never trusted the Tooth Fairy growing up. I always pictured him or her as some beastly and ghastly creature that stole teeth and ended up doing sordid things with them–this before I knew just how horrible humanity itself could be.

    This tooth child  would be, in my nightmare, what the tooth fairy looks like.
    Horrid.

    So happy to hear that the show will be back for me..

  • Lady Gaga postpones European tour due to health problems

    Lady Gaga postpones European tour due to health problems

    Lady Gaga postpones European tour due to health problems:

    “Lady Gaga is suffering from severe physical pain that has impacted her ability to perform,” a statement from her label published on Monday reads.

    “She remains under the care of expert medical professionals who recommended the postponement earlier today.”

    The 31-year-old singer also shared a message with fans on Instagram, saying she has been “searching for years to get to the bottom of” her condition.

    “It is complicated and difficult to explain, and we are trying to figure it out,” she said.

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  • WEEKLY STANDARD slams horror movies as the cockroach genre of the box office!

    WEEKLY STANDARD slams horror movies as the cockroach genre of the box office!

    JONATHAN LAST WRITES,

    On the subject of horror movies, I mentioned this briefly on the show, but I want to tease the idea out a little bit: Horror movies are the cockroaches of cinema. They will survive everything, even streaming and the internet.
    That’s because they’re bottom-feeding, low-cost, high-ROI enterprises that appeal to both a deep niche audience (horror fans) as well as to the broad general quadrant (teens and young adults looking for thrills). And as a consequence, they can be marketed cheaply.
    Horror movies don’t need stars. The effects they rely on tend to be inexpensive. And when they hit, they can bring the kind of returns that simply don’t exist anywhere else in the industry. Have a look at this list of the biggest returns ever on horror and it’ll make your eyes pop out. Paranormal Activity made $200 million on a $15,000 budget.

  • IT continues to make some box office history

    IT continues to make some box office history

    IT easily beat mother! this weekend .. It wasn’t great competition, but it’s a good victory nonetheless.

    And some facts: In its first 10 days, the film adaptation of Stephen King’s novel has earned $218.7 million domestically, passing up Get Out ($175.5 million) to become the No. 2 R-rated horror film of all time behind The Exorcist, not accounting for inflation. 
    It is already the top-grossing September release in history. 
    IT will finish its North American run with north of $300 million.

    Overseas: IT is grossing $60.3 million in its second weekend from 56 markets for a foreign tally of $152.6 million and a stunning $371.3 million worldwide against a $35 million budget. 

    Highlights included a record-breaking horror opening of $13.8 million in Mexico.
    A perfect horror movie for the age of TRUMP.
  • mother! just scored Jennifer Lawrence the worst box office opening of her career..

    mother! just scored Jennifer Lawrence the worst box office opening of her career..

    The reviews were awful.
    The critics panned..
    The citizens revolted and were revulsed.

    Babies were not harmed in the filming, but everyone’s eyes who watched an infant be eaten were..

    This movie may have been the worst scored movie in years… An “F” with CinemaScore.. some of the worst and most sarcastic reviews and comments on ROTTEN TOMATOES..

    Today Jennifer Lawrence is suffering the worst wide box office opening of her career..

    FROM THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER:

    Darren Aronofsky’s mother! stalled in its domestic box office debut, earning an estimated $7.5 million from 2,368 theaters after receiving a rare F CinemaScore and facing competition from blockbuster It.
    mother!, an elevated psychological horror-thriller, supplants The House at the End of the Street($12.3 million) to mark the lowest nationwide launch of Jennifer Lawrence’s career. The Paramount title, costing $30 million to produce, came in No. 3 for the weekend behind It and new offering American Assassin. (In a sign that summer is over, all three titles are rated R.)
    Warner Bros. and New Line’s It continued to make history in its second weekend, declining a scant 51 percent to $60 million from 4,103 theaters, the biggest sophomore outing ever for a horror title.

  • REAL LIFE FUNERAL HOME HORROR: BLOOD LEAKS

    REAL LIFE FUNERAL HOME HORROR: BLOOD LEAKS

    Residents spotted the disturbing sight of blood seeping out onto the road from a Louisiana undertaker’s business on Thursday afternoon.

    Gruesome photographs show red liquid trickling onto a back street from a valve outside the Greenoaks Funeral Home in Baton Rouge. City officials said a stoppage in a line had caused the blood, which was mixed with an embalming fluid containing formaldehyde, to leak from a storage tank located behind the building.

    The leak lasted for only about 20 minutes, however, and the liquid mix did not find its way into the city’s sewer system, per multiple reports.

  • Maria tracks Irma’s early path

    Maria tracks Irma’s early path

    Watch this storm ..

    Jose is meandering around the East Coast.. may or may not graze a few cities, but even if so will not be a strong category.

    All bets are off for Maria, which is now following a freakily similar path to what IRMA did — right over some of the worst hit islands of the Caribbean.. places still regrouping and trying to figure out how to rebuild lives and property..

    The latest on Maria:

    A Tropical Storm watch was in effect for St. Lucia, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Barbados, St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
    “Hurricane conditions are possible within the hurricane watch area by Monday night or Tuesday, with tropical storm conditions possible on Monday,” the National Hurricane Center said.
    Although forecast tracks can change dramatically over the coming week, maps on Saturday show the storm moving on an Irma-like path over Puerto Rico on Wednesday and Hispaniola Thursday morning heading straight toward the Florida Keys.

    Keep in mind how horrible a situation right now some of these islands are facing.. Places like Barbuda .. places like the once beautiful St. Martin..

    From the MIAMI HERALD:

    Ten days after Hurricane Irma turned St. Martin into a jigsaw of ripped metal and shattered wood, residents were still struggling with an existential question: Should they cling to an island that can barely support 

    life or start over elsewhere?
    Irma hit the shared Dutch and French Caribbean island as a Category 5 hurricane with winds in excess of 200 miles an hour, turning the picturesque tourist haven into a sweltering trash heap without power, water or communications. What the hurricane didn’t steal, looters often did.

    Now the bullseye again exists on them and other places attempting to recover…
    From there? Maria may hit the Carolinas in a long range outlook..
    And it’s not over with her.
    After Maria, another impressive wave that just emitted from the Continent of Africa looks enterprising in nature and strong in convection. An early named storm may result.. And that one, more than any this year, should be watched.

  • Confused and angered by mother! while ‘IT’ breaks new records

    Confused and angered by mother! while ‘IT’ breaks new records

    We talked about MOTHER! earlier today.. 

     

    But now we know: The movie is a FLOP..

    Mother is ‘dying’ in box offices with a “F” cinemaScore and only $7.8 mil .. it has been been a tremendous failure to Jennifer Lawrence.. And increasingly lampooned online as being a holier than thou-premised film with a scene where a baby literally gets eaten..

    A few reviews from ROTTEN TOMATOES from the non-paid reviewers.. those I trust more.

    DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME AND MONEY!!!! WTH is this trash? I have never seen such a bad movie. Do not tell me this is “art”. This movie demonstrates all that is wrong with movies today. Hey, lets kill babies….seriously? Oh just symbiotically art….BLAH BLAH BLAH.

    X X X

    After seeing this you will fill in the title “Mother!” With and additional expletive. WARNING DONT WASTE YOUR MONEY! I am your average move goer so trust me. who likes a good scare, a good laugh, great story and action. The fact is this movie, has no story, and after an hour you will be screaming “Mother..F***** ” what a waste of time and money…probably the worst movie released with such hype in 10 years!

    X X X 

    Got up early in order to see this today, and now I want to go back in time and get the extra sleep. The trailer was purposefully ambiguous because the average viewer won’t glean anything from it, and maybe that was the intent: to draw in an audience to find out what is going on. I had no idea what was going on, and found myself getting angrier and angrier as my questions were never answered. The conclusion/reveal didn’t do anything for me, and made no sense to me as a whole.

    DEADLINE is writing,

    Last weekend, Paramount had a custom in-theater trailer for Mother! on It telling moviegoers. “In one week, in this theater, one movie will mess you up for life…You will never forget where you were the first time you saw Mother! After the movie, visit the box office to get your tickets.” One rival marketing head told Deadline, “If I was a horror fan and then went to see Mother! I’d be pretty pissed because it’s not your run of the mill Screen Gems film.” What could Paramount do? How else could they sell this movie? Mother! begins as a quiet movie and then gets really gonzo toward the end and goes off the rails. Lawrence and Aronofsky say it’s all allegory. There is a gripping, ‘WTF is going on now?’ sensibility to the film, and in that sense, the quick clip, suspenseful marketing arguably didn’t betray.

    MEANWHILE: ‘IT’ appears to be the big winner again this weekend.. and even talk about the movie on social media has increased over 30% since last week…  This weekend IT will now become the biggest September release ever when it reaches $218 million cumulative..

    And mother!? … ugh.