Here's The Story In A Nutshell....

It began with wanting to get back to writing a blog. I've been wanting to ever since wanting to trying to get something started involving something I really like, like horror movies.

So welcome to the re-christened and renamed blog Horror By Post, or what I like to say "Horror.... BY POST!!!!!!"

The name has two meanings:

1) The way I get the majority of the horror films I see, through NETFLIX and
BlockBuster Online, through the postal system, or by "post".

2) Writing about Horror films on this blog, by "posts"

Although Horror films is the main genre in this blog, it is not just limited to just Horror. GrindHouse films will also be an offering in this blog, though not as much as Horror.

So welcome to Horror By Post.

My Thoughts, Exactly: Meet The Spartans

The Makers of "Date Movie" and "Epic Movie" have struck again, this time with a parody with the movie "300" as its basis. The movie is called "Meet The Spartans" but I call it "Automatic Admittance To Hell".

Lets see, a plot. Just like "300" There you go, you now don't have to see it, the plot is just like "300". I just saved you 8 bucks or however much you pay to see a movie. If you've seen "300" you've already seen this movie.

How about the hip parody and topical references. Well, let's see... you have Shrek, Brad-gelina (that one goes with a "Vietmanese orphan" reference), American Idol, Dancing with the Stars, Grand Theft Auto, Transformers, Spider-Man 3, Stomp the Yard, You Got Served, Britney's Insanity, Paris's jail time, Lindsay's rehab, famous no panty shots, Ugly Betty, Wayne's World, K-Fed, Borat, Rocky, Happy Feet, Product Placement, Subway sandwiches, Spartan "lifestyle", MTV's "Yo Mama", and that's basicly the whole list. Oh yeah, I almost forgot the Hercules line that Kevin Sorbo threw in to try to get a laugh.

Actual running time of film: 1 hour and 24 minutes.
Actual running time of story in the film: 1 hour and 5 minutes.
Actual running time of End Credits: 19 minutes.

So if you take 19, which is the minutes of end credits, and divide it by 84, which is the total running time in minutes, you get 22 percent, which is the percentage of the film you have just for the end credits, and 65 minutes is shorter than any of the run of the mill, straight to video feature you might pick up these days.

My advice to you: Go to www.oscar.com, and view the list of nominations for this year's ceremony, then choose one of those films to see, not this piece of tripe called "Meet The Spartans".

You'll be glad you did.

[Meet The Spartans Artwork (c) 20th Century Fox / Regency]

The B.O.: There Will Be Bloods, sorta, kinda, likka.

The movie going public preferred a pie in the face to a bullet in the guts as the parody comedy "Meet The Spartans" edged out "RAMBO" as this past weekend's box office champ.

"Meet The Spartans", this year's entry in the "topical humor and current movie parody" genre from the makers of "Date Movie" and "Epic Movie" brought in $18.5 million to rank #1.

Coming in at second with just over 300 (no pun intended) thousand less in box office is Sylvester Stallone's latest foray into the jungle, "RAMBO" bringing in $18.2 million to hit No. 2.

Coming in at No. 3 and 4 is the romantic comedy "27 Dresses" and the current net-buzz film "CLOVERFIELD" with $13.3 and $12.7 million, respectively, with the buzz for "CLOVERFIELD" dropping off (like Persians off a cliff. I can make bad references to "300" all day) a whopping 68 percent.

The only other new release making the top ten is the cyber terror film "Untraceable" bringing in $12.5 million to place it at No. 5 this week.

The bottom 5 of the top 10 this weekend was:

6) The Bucket List: $11.3 Million
7) Juno: $10.2 Million
8) National Treasure: Book Of Secrets: $4.9 Million
9) There Will Be Blood: $4.8 Million
10) Mad Money: $4.6 Million

Teen Tries To Crash A "Hannah Montana" Concert The Hard Way

In one of the more hilarious news stories of the past week (well, I think it is. The 11 year old yelling "It's not funny!!! It's not funny!!!" into my ear, apparently doesn't think so. She also thinks that a song that bashes Emo's that inspired the hit YouTube video "I Must Be Emo" is an actual Emo song. Go figure.)

It seems that a sixteen-year-old Los Angeles teenager had planned to hijack an airplane and crash it into a Hannah Montana concert in Louisiana.

On Tuesday, the teen flew from L.A. to Nashville, but that's where it ended. He was arrested in Nashville on Tuesday.

Among the teen’s possessions were handcuffs, duct tape and yarn (yarn???), as his implements for making his plan to overtake the flight crew happen. Although the teen did his planning well, acquiring copies of the flight plan and schedules, he overlooked one vital component to make his fiendish plan a reality: Hannah Montana’s touring schedule. While all this happened Tuesday, the singer wasn’t performing at the Cajundome until Friday anyways. As it stands now, the teen is currently being held awaiting charges for felony terrorism.

Although the urge makes me want to make polls like, "Since a dude with a ball of yarn failed to ram a 40 ton airplane into Hannah Montana, what would you use to do so?", I'll probably get a bunch of sordid answers that would make me go 'ugh' so I won't.

I bid you a hearty hello....

There has been a time that decisions have been made that wonderful times were coming for some, and that some decisions have been made that meant the doom of us all.

And there have been decisions that have been made on a lark, as in the decision "I'll think I'll make a Blog". As in this decision.

So, welcome to my blog, entitled "The sanity in sanity". The title has no title, except that it sounds sort of catchy.

I'm kind of new to this blog thing, so welcome, and I hope you come back to visit again and again.