Life Imitates Horror: Chainsaw decapitation!
Posted by Ms Harker | Filed under Life imitates Horror
Its been a little while since I presented you with a Life Imitates Horror offering. I was thumbing through my latest copy of Rue Morgue, reading their section entitled ‘Coroner’s Report’ and came across this:
“A fifty year old British man, David Phyall, recently committed suicide by cutting his own head off with a chainsaw that he had secured to a piece of furniture- because his Hampshire flat was scheduled for demolition.” (p12)
Intrigued I investigated this further and came across a news article, confirming the story. The incident took place in July 2008 and Phyall indeed rigged up the DIY decapitation in response to being evicted from his flat. Phyall was very methodical and set up quite the piece of machinery:
“He tied the Black & Decker tool to a leg of a snooker table in his lounge with string, taped up the on button and plugged it into a timer. Mr Phyall then lay down under the snooker table face up and placed the chainsaw against his neck, Winchester Coroner’s Court heard. A piece of the tool’s cardboard box initially cushioned the blades from his neck. The hearing heard the timer, which is usually used to turn lights on and off, was fixed to start up the chainsaw for 15 minutes.” (The Telegraph, 20/11/08)
Fifteen minutes… fifteen minutes, this gentleman had obviously seen a lot of horror flicks, new it was going to take time to get through the gristle and bone! But my goodness what a way to check out!
Ms Harker
Tags: Horror, Life imitates Horror
Sorority Row, one sheet, a pile of chicks?
Posted by Ms Harker | Filed under Horror Films, Uncategorized
I may be a little behind the news flow with this post, but I feel the need to express my thoughts about the one sheet/poster for the upcoming slasher flick ‘Sorority Row‘. The trailer came out in March and introduced the viewing public to one of MANY remakes hitting our theaters this year (the original film being ‘The House on Sorority Row‘).
The story is your typical teen prank gone wrong, whoops we killed out friend, friend comes back to haunt and kill us all off one by one… or does she? The only thing of interest to me in this film is the role of Carrie Fisher as you will see from the trailer she goes down fighting Leia style, woman has got her stuff sorted and is a living legend, bring it Carrie, bring it!
Obviously the poster means to emulate a pile of good looking corpses yes? However I have an issue… I used to work with this guy who told me about an act, at lets call it an Erotic Dance establishment, where all the women in the show would pile on top of each other and they named this show stopper the ‘Block of flaps’, you know like a block of flats… but made of chicks.
Now I try not to be too crass for my readers but I honestly cannot take this poster seriously… I keep thinking of those girls, working hard for the money, so hard for it honey, piled on top of each other, creating what could be the eight wonder of the world. Its something I think I need to see in my lifetime and am yet to do so, however the image is fixed in my brain as I laughed hysterically about it for a week, so you can understand why I struggle with this poster.
Ms Harker
Tags: Horror, Horror Films, Life imitates Horror
Extra chunky… what too soon?
Posted by Ms Harker | Filed under Life imitates Horror
I heard this on the radio this morning and thought it fit well into my little often used feature of ‘Life Imitates Horror’. Read the below story from the Australian ABC news website:
Man boiled alive in empty soup vat
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A German worker has been boiled alive in an empty industrial-sized soup vat while trying to clean it, newspaper Bild reports.
The 36-year-old, named only as Markus, was scrubbing the two-metre-high pot when the lid accidentally closed, automatically starting the jets of boiling water used to disinfect vegetables.
“For reasons we have still not cleared up, the disinfection process started too soon,” a police spokesman told Bild.
By the time the unfortunate worker was found, he was already dead, Bild reported.
The factory in Luebeck in northern Germany, which employs around 200 people, has been “provisionally closed”, according to its owners, Erasco - a subsidiary of US soup-maker Campbell’s.
Gives new meaning to the ‘extra chunky’ line of soups… what too soon?
Ms Harker
Tags: Life imitates Horror
