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Here is a short horror comedy film by Richard Gale. Saw it at the Nevermore Film Festival earlier in the year. I know many a FReeper will find this as funny and enjoyable as I did. The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon

Los Angeles - More than 4,000 fully made-up dancers gathered at the Nokia Center on Saturday night to help set a new world record... the most people to simultaneously dance to Michael Jackson's "Thriller." The "Thrill the World Los Angeles" event at the Nokia was part of a wider global celebration that involved 300 other cities. An estimated 20,000 people around the world were said to have set a record for the largest simultaneous Thriller dance routine. The dance, in cities in 37 countries around the world, topped the previous record. That was set on , which was set by...

DEARBORN, Mich. -- The Arab American National Museum in Dearborn could land a sculpture of veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas. ~snipMcElhinney sculpted a clay version of a Thomas bust.

Associate director of Duke University's Center for Health Policy, Frank Lombard, was recently arrested by the FBI and charged with offering up his adopted 5-year-old African American son for sex to an undercover cop. Lombard admitted to molesting his own adopted son to the undercover officer in an online chat room under the user name "Perv Dad for Fun". He invited the under cover officer to travel to North Carolina to rape his already-molested adopted son. Lombard faces 20 years in prison if convicted but is not eligible for the death penalty.Lombard bragged to the detective that “the abuse of...

>>Michael Costigan, Ridley Scott and even Tony Scott are all on board to produce and have tapped Carl Rinsch to get beyond the camera and bring a new Ripley to the big screen. Who is Carl Rinsch? I'm being told he's a commercial/music video director and does work for Scott Free Productions, who is also producing the remake. In the original, the terror begins when the crew of a spaceship investigates a transmission from a desolate planet, and discovers a life form that is perfectly evolved to annihilate mankind. One by one, each crew member is slain until only Ripley...

Air France plane: full story of the horror on board Flight 447 Flight 447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris began as an ordinary flight across the Atlantic, carrying passengers from 32 nations. But it ended in disaster. Philip Sherwell in Natal, Brazil 06 Jun 2009 Bianca Cotta and Carlos Mello (L) took flight 447 while Bianca Igregas and Rodrigo Motto decided not to fly after staying up late celebrating their wedding Just 24 hours after celebrating their marriage with an extravagant Balinese-themed reception for 300 guests, Bianca Cotta and Carlos Eduardo de Melo set off for honeymoon in France...

The DescentThey are making a sequel this year, 2009, honestly, I was breaking a sweat 15 minutes into it and just a complete freakin' wreck during the whole film, very well done, no humor, like the scifi movies of old. This is a must see in my opinion ... My wife was yelling "Fast Forward it, Fast Forward it !!!!"

tired of Osama/bama, Pakistan, Iraq? A light novel that is short and easy to read. First of a series. He reported that they had tracked the beast to a wood pile and were waiting for it to emerge. He then asked him if he would let them know the moment they made any progress. It wasn’t long before a pack of dogs had picked up the scent. They came running through the woods barking and tracked the scent straight to the wood pile. The four dogs ran around the pile trying to hone in on their prey. One got bold...

New horror novel. The first in a series. Available now at: www.xlibris.com/Lycanstein.html copyrighted: Mark called Mickey on the two-way and asked him if they were having any luck. He reported that they had tracked the beast to a wood pile and were waiting for it to emerge. He then asked him if he would let them know the moment they made any progress. It wasn’t long before a pack of dogs had picked up the scent. They came running through the woods barking and tracked the scent straight to the wood pile. The four dogs ran around the pile trying...

Audiobook: Horror novel adaptation on youtube. Constructive criticism welcome. Episode synopsis: In this episode, Chris returns home to face another ordeal as the voices torture him to make new concessions. Watch and rate here. Series synopsis: Part II introduces our story's reluctant heroine, Nicole, after an encounter with a mysterious stranger turns her life upside down, and she begins a quest to stop a terrorist cult.

If you take your kids to see "The Watchmen," you're a moron...

Audiobook: Part II introduces our story's reluctant heroine, Nicole, after an encounter with a mysterious stranger turns her life upside down, and she begins a quest to stop a terrorist cult. In this episode, Nicole tries to prevent Carl from hurting himself in a church and confronts Chris with a warning to leave town.

COVINA, Calif. - A man who carried out a Christmas Eve massacre and arson dressed as Santa at the home of his former in-laws apparently intended to flee the U.S., but his plans were dashed after the inferno he created severely burned his arms and melted his red costume onto his body, police said Friday. Bruce Jeffrey Pardo, a laid-off aerospace worker, apparently shot some of his nine victims execution-style in a plot to destroy his ex-wife's family after a costly divorce that was finalized last week. He had an airline ticket for a Christmas morning flight to Canada and...

90 years to the day after 11/11. 11:11, the second which officially ended World War I. For the first time not one member of the two huge armies, German and French, that clashed on the fields of Verdun , attendeded Armistice Day service in Verdun, and paid tribute to those who had died, as the last 4 survivors of World War I are all British. Earlier in London, three of the four surviving British World War I veterans attended a ceremony at the Cenotaph.Henry Allingham, 112, Harry Patch, 110, and Bill Stone, 108, represented the Royal Air Force, Army and...

Autumn is coming on and it feels like Halloween in southwest Missouri. My wife and I were thinking of some seasonal reading. So what do YOU recommend? Scare me!

That is one of Jonah Goldberg's best columns yet: On the Clintons and Obama: Bill Clinton is no supernatural serial killer - faint praise to most, too generous to a few. But he does have this juggernaut-like way of getting where he wants to be. One of his special powers is superhuman passive-aggressiveness. When recently asked if Obama was qualified to be president, Clinton responded, "You can argue that nobody is ready to be president." Pressed again about Obama's qualifications to be president, Clinton explained, "I never said he wasn't qualified. The Constitution sets qualification for the president. And then...

Director:Martin Campbell Writers:Paul Harris Boardman (writer) Scott Derrickson (writer) more Release Date:3 July 2009 (USA) more Genre:Horror | Thriller more Plot:A remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 thriller about a flock of birds that take over a quiet Northern California town. | add synopsis Plot Keywords:Remake Production Notes/Status: Status:Pre-production Comments:The film's production dates have been pushed past any possible directors and actors strike. Status Updated:22 April 2008 Note:Because this project is categorized as being in production, the data is subject to change; some data could be removed completely. Cast (Credited cast) Naomi Watts ... Melanie Daniels (rumored)

A Columbia journalism student will tell jurors on Friday how a sadist turned her Manhattan apartment into a "torture chamber" where she was raped, disfigured and nearly blinded. "He ordered her to stab out her eyes," Assistant District Attorney Ann Prunty said Thursday as she opened the trial of 31-year-old Robert Williams with a horrific account of the alleged assault on April 13, 2007. Standing naked in the bathtub with her lips glued and taped shut, her hands and ankles bound, the 23-year-old victim "couldn't do it," Prunty said. "The next thing she heard was the kettle whistling," the prosecutor...

<p>February 13, 2008 -- A man went berserk at an Upper East Side psychologist's office last night, hacking her to death with a meat cleaver and critically injuring another doctor who ran to her aid when he heard her blood-curdling screams, police said.</p>

Johannesburg - Eleven people who were allegedly carrying out illegal abortions were arrested in central Johannesburg, the City said on Monday. City officials and metro police came upon a makeshift hospital of horrors on Friday when trying to clean central Johannesburg of "poster pollution", said City of Johannesburg spokesperson Nthatisi Modingoane. Modingoane said officers were tracking down "doctors" who were sticking leaflets advertising their services on city electric poles and traffic lights. "It really creates an eyesore, they put the leaflets on top of each other, our team was dealing with that." After telephoning the "doctors" - and pretending to...

Silly/Corny/Worst/Best Horror Flick(s) of all time? OK, as you start gearing up and ordering your Halloween flix from Netflix, I know what you're all wondering, what would Lucky9teen watch?  Well, as I've said before, I'm a big chicken and I'm not much into "horror" flicks. But I have found a list online of The Top 70 Vampire Movies Of All Time. Let me put it this way, I wouldn't put a lot of faith in this list since Eddie Murphy's "Vampire in Brooklyn" made the cut.  But 1922 Nosferatu - was appropriate put at #1. Clinton dies and goes straight...

LOS ANGELES - Nine Guatemalans were indicted for their roles in an alleged sex trafficking ring that lured young women to the United States with promises of good jobs and then forced them into prostitution, according to federal court records. ADVERTISEMENT Four of the defendants pleaded not guilty in January to sex trafficking charges in the case. A superseding indictment, unsealed Thursday, includes more serious allegations that five of the 12 victims were minors. According to the new 50-count indictment, the defendants at times sold Guatemalan women and girls to one another like slaves and allegedly brought the victims to...

WEST PALM BEACH -- Mother and son huddled together, battered and beaten, in the bathroom -- sobbing, wondering why no one came to help. Surely the neighbors had heard their screams. The walls are thin, the screen doors flimsy in this violence-plagued housing project on the edge of downtown. For three hours, the pair say, they endured sheer terror as the 35-year-old Haitian immigrant was raped and sodomized by up to 10 masked teenagers and her 12-year-old son was beaten in another room. Then, mother and son were reunited to endure the unspeakable: At gunpoint, the woman was forced to...

...UC Berkeley has the world's premiere collection on Mark Twain — and Yale an unmatched trove of rare medieval manuscripts. But for research on Capt. Kirk, Frankenstein or Harry Potter, nothing tops the 110,000-volume Eaton collection at UC Riverside, the world's largest library of science fiction, fantasy and horror books...

CALUMET CITY, Ill. — A man beat his girlfriend's 4-year-old son to death after she left the boy in his care while she was deployed to Iraq, police said.Donell Parker, 23, was charged Friday with first-degree murder in the death of Cameron Smith. The boy was found dead in his bed Thursday in a suburb south of Chicago. Parker told police he beat the boy, but would not say why, said Calumet City police Chief Patrick O'Meara. Cameron was punched in the head, stomach and chest, and whipped with a belt from Tuesday to Wednesday evening, O'Meara said. An autopsy...

Captive speaks of Taleban horror Daniele Mastrogiacomo, 52, thought he would be killed An Italian journalist freed after being kidnapped by the Taleban in Afghanistan says he saw his captors cut off the head of one of two Afghans with him. Daniele Mastrogiacomo, who works for the La Repubblica daily, was seized two weeks ago in southern Helmand province. Mr Mastrogiacomo was said to be in good health in hospital. His driver's body has yet to be handed over, while his translator was also freed on Monday. The men were kept in chains and moved 15 times while in captivity,...

24-7, San Francisco. Sure, Frank Gore had an incredible game. But ... Oh, dear sweet God we're de-peaking at just the right time!

More stories can be read at Assyrian International News Agency Islamic Group Beheads Assyrian Priest, Crucifies 14 Year Old Boy in North Iraq photo of murdered Assyrian priest Mosul, Iraq (AINA) -- On Monday, October 9, a prominent Assyrian (also known as Chaldean and Syriac) priest, Fr. Paulos Iskander (Paul Alexander), was kidnapped by an unknown Islamic group. His ransom was posted at either $250,000 or $350,000. This group had demanded that signs be posted once again on his church apologizing for the Pope's remarks as a condition for negotiations to begin. Father Alexander was beheaded on Wednesday. An email...

A woman claims she landed on a hyperdermic needle filled with fluid as she was sitting down in her seat after returning from the restroom on an American Airlines flight into Dallas. Sueanne Lineberger spent a night in the emergency room after her finger jabbed the needle while reaching back. "When I sat down I felt something stick me in my rear end and I yelled," she said. "It hurt." Lineberger was taken to the emergency room where she said ER doctors could not tell her what was in the syringe and possibly in her body. They referred her to...

Just an FYI to all that are Stephen King fans...the series of Nightmares and Dreamscapes begins airing tonight on TNT 9/8 Central. Battleground (7/12 - 9/8c): Jason Renshaw (William Hurt), a professional hit man, successfully murders the CEO of a prestigious toy company only to face the biggest fight of his life when a package from the toy company is delivered to his house with surprising, deadly contents. Crouch End (7/12 - 9:50/8:50c): A newlywed American couple (Eion Bailey and Claire Forlani) honeymooning in London, goes to Crouch End to have dinner with a friend. They soon learn the town...

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - With the clamor over religious thriller "The Da Vinci Code" barely fading, a major Hollywood studio is mining the same vein with a Satanic "666" marketing campaign for its new horror film. "The Omen", a remake of the 1976 horror classic, is the kind of film that routinely makes it big at the box office, appealing to the coveted demographic of young and predominantly male thrill-seekers. Twentieth Century Fox has banked "The Omen" on a promotional campaign based on "666", the number associated with Satan, based on Revelation, the last book in the Bible. Even the...

I had thought the Left had finally run out of preposterous things to say about President Bush. I mean, between Dan Rather, Chris Matthews, Charlie Sheen, Howard Dean, John Kerry, Al Gore, Helen Thomas, and the rest of the card-carrying liberal loonies, what was left to be said about the man? That he slurped his soup? That he hated John Wayne westerns? That he beat up Laura on a regular basis? These people who would rush to defend Osama bin Laden, arguing that he must have been potty-trained too early, and defend Satan on the grounds that anyone would be...

Harsh reality: Northern Gaza Strip residents tell Ynet about life in war zone, wedged between IDF, Qassam rocket launching cells. Locals say their existence resembles shooting range; IDF: Terrorists take advantage of civilians By the weekend, IDF forces fired more than 1,000 shells at the Gaza Strip in a single week in response to ongoing Qassam rocket attacks on Israeli targets. However, it appears Palestinian residents living in what has become a full-fledged war zone wedged between the IDF and Qassam cells have been forgotten. IDF officials, meanwhile, are aware of the damage but note they have no intention of...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian court on Thursday began trying three local policemen for failing to stop the 2004 Beslan school massacre but victims' relatives said they were being made scapegoats for the mistakes of their superiors. The three policemen are the only officials being prosecuted over the bloodbath, which happened after gunmen linked to separatists in Chechnya seized the school. The death toll from the siege was 331 people, half of them children. Prosecutors told the trial in Beslan that the officers' carelessness allowed the heavily-armed gunmen to slip through a security cordon and reach Beslan. "As a result...

Will former White House reporter Helen Thomas ever go away? She’s now written up a jeremiad perpetuating the myth that our media are mere whimpering lapdogs of Bush, tinny arfs all around. She hones in on that old, diseased chestnut that the liberal media went all soft in the “rush to war” in Iraq. Helen’s harangue appeared in the appropriate platform: The Nation magazine, which advertises on its website the slogan, “If you think it’s time to impeach Bush, then it’s time for you to subscribe to The Nation.” In a preview of her forthcoming book on the “waning Washington...

Government officials in Slovakia have expressed their concern that new backpacker horror movie Hostel makes their country appear dangerous. The Eli Roth-directed movie, which shows three travelers heading to a Slovakian city and falling prey to a brutal torture ring, has caused outrage among the country's politicians, who feel it will tarnish their nation's reputation. Member of Parliament Tomas Galbavy says, "I am offended by this film. I think that all Slovaks should feel offended." Galbavy called Hostel, which was shot in the neighboring Czech Republic, "a monstrosity that does not at all reflect reality" and added it would "damage...

Folks who live for the pull and snap of live flesh will have their share of sequences to cheer for in "Hostel," the new horror flick about two American backpackers who wind up snared in a wild Slovakian torture ring. Written and directed by Eli Roth ("Cabin Fever"), the movie tells one of those nightmare-abroad tales, like "An American Werewolf in London" or "Eurotrip." Jocky and horny Paxton (Jay Hernandez) and bookish and virginal Josh (Derek Richardson) show up in Amsterdam and promptly hit the bong and cruise the nightclubs. They befriend an Icelander named Oli (Eythor Gudjonsson), insult the...

NEW YORK - Today's horror movies are more likely to be dripping with blood than irony, with films like "Wolf Creek," the "Saw" series and this week's "Hostel" representing a return to their grisly, low-budget '70s roots. While the "Scream" trilogy grossed hundreds of millions of dollars in the late 1990s with characters who winked at the camera in playful mockery of the genre's conventions, horror flicks like "Hostel," Eli Roth's follow-up to his gory 2003 debut "Cabin Fever," will show you a character whose eye is dangling from its socket after a long afternoon of torture. Joe Dante's contribution,...

If you wondered what it would sound like if two agents of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy(tm) and a talking cat were attacked by brainless lefty zombies led by Professor Ward Churchill on a Halloween night, then you must listen to the latest audio from Pure Idiom "Night of the Living Left"Download and listen (PC speakers required): Part 1 http://www.pureidiom.com/podcast/nightlivingdead_part1.mp3 Part 2 http://www.pureidiom.com/podcast/nightlivingdead_part2.mp3 WARNING: This audio is NOT G-rated kiddie stuff... You will hear liberal zombies get their heads chopped off, Nancy Pelosi will be called a VERY bad name, and shock rock legend Alice Cooper will rip "Peace Mom"...

Schoolgirls riot at tourist spot By NIGEL ADLAM 17sep05 HUNDREDS of people watched in horror as a mob of schoolgirls rioted at Darwin's biggest tourist attraction. Most of the youngsters were in their teens. But several witnesses said a few were as young as six. About 20 girls threw sticks and stones, and even pulled out a street bollard, as they fought with security guards. Fighting between rival gangs of boys and girls has been escalating at Mindil Beach markets (pictured). Market manager Tim Robinson said four guards were beaten. Security and market managers are to hold a crisis meeting...

This is the story of a hero, the true story of a man who lived thru a version of hell that is simply unimaginable. That he got through it, is amazing. That he survived the madness and escaped to go on living, is a miracle. The story told by Lt. Gen. Romeo Dallaire in his magnificent book "Shake Hands With the Devil – The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda" (Carroll & Graf Publishers, New York) is beautifully written, but is horrifying, infuriating and discouraging. It's a portrait of evil that was ignored and allowed to happen. He worked on the...

Kurds in Iran's western city of Mahabad are rioting against the Iranian government after the torture and brutal death of activist, Shovaneh Ghaderi, at the hands of the police. Shovaneh was a member of the Revolutionary Union of Kurdistan. His crime evidently was to call for autonomy in Kurdistan. Reports are that Shovaneh was shot by police and tied to a car. He was dragged by the car to the police station, suffering severe lacerations. At the police station, he was allegedly tortured until he died. Shovaneh was 25-years old at the time of his murder. The police brutality came...

SAN DIEGO (July 8, 2005) -- With cars exploding, improvised explosive devices detonating and rocket-propelled grenades screaming past your head, Marine life can be a horror flick — and Stu Segall is the Stephen King of military training. Segall’s Strategic Operations Studio recreates grisly, heart-stopping, tactical scenarios to prepare law enforcement and military personnel for “tomorrow’s threat.” That’s why Camp Pendleton-based 1st Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company conducted their security and stabilization operations training at Strategic Ops — Segall’s movie set for producing mayhem and less-macabre modes of action-packed military training. Strategic Ops premiered its latest SASO production July 8...

Stephen King exhorts UMaine grads to stay Boston Globe ORONO, Maine -- Delivering the commencement speech at his alma mater, the best-selling author Stephen King counseled University of Maine graduates yesterday to be voracious readers, to donate a tenth of their earnings to worthy causes, and to carve out their careers in Maine. May 8, 2005 --> Stephen King exhorts UMaine grads to stay By Associated Press  |  May 8, 2005 ORONO, Maine -- Delivering the commencement speech at his alma mater, the best-selling author Stephen King counseled University of Maine graduates yesterday to be voracious readers, to donate a...

Officer investigates possibility of ghosts in his own home By Ilona Carson ABC13 Eyewitness News (5/05/05 - CYPRESS, TX) — Houston's police officers usually hunt down criminals, but one lieutenant has been spending his time hunting ghosts -- in his own home. It has all the makings of a movie, but this isn't fiction - it's a home right here in Texas. In fact, it's just up Highway 249 in Cypress. The home has been drawing ghost-hunters, sight-seers and the curious. It is quite a story. The couple moved in about two years ago. He is a Houston police officer....

FOX has been running the 911 call from the child who discovered her parents dead from gunshots. Sorry, I don't remember the location. Watch for it. They are saying the man had been stalking the parents and they had requested a restraining order against him. The judge denied the request! They are also reporting that the judge is now dismayed. Evidently some charges had been brought against this guy, but the interesting aspect is that the people who were murdered did not have anything to do with the charges. The perp then went to his house and committed suicide. The...

It’s Good Friday, the most somber day in the Christian Calendar, and a total innocent is being put to death. A slow and painful death, as the World watches, yet does nothing to intervene. The betrayer of that innocent eagerly awaits his pieces of silver, the judge that ordered the execution washes his hands of any responsibility. And the world mourns in horror and in silence. Is this Jerusalem in 35 AD ? No – it’s Florida 2005 !

Tried for a weekend to install NSW on an AMD system running XP Pro. No go. Spent hours on the phone with Symantec. No good. Installed Ghost. Installs fine; errors out when run. I thought by now AMD systems would be fully compatible; evidently I was wrong. "Fully contemptible" might be more appropriate. Any suggestions? I am thinking of pitching it and going back to intel. --Boris

WASHINGTON -- Software salesman Shadab Aziz of Houston was preparing recently to catch the first flight on his long journey to Saudi Arabia for the hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca expected at least once in a lifetime of all able Muslims. But his mind was partly on what could happen when he returned to the United States. A U.S. citizen, Aziz wondered if American border officials would make him provide his fingerprints before allowing him to re-enter the country. That had been the case weeks earlier for a group of Muslim-Americans returning from an Islamic conference in Toronto. "My concern...