{"id":6070,"date":"2013-01-25T14:36:36","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T19:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/?p=3729"},"modified":"2013-01-25T14:36:36","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T19:36:36","slug":"hammer-house-of-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=6070","title":{"rendered":"Hammer House of Horror"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3730\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 310px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/HammerHouseHorror_PCushing_pic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3730\" title=\"HammerHouseHorror_PCushing_pic\" src=\"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/HammerHouseHorror_PCushing_pic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two more years? For God&#39;s sake! What&#39;s wrong with you people!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>First some local horror: Rob Ford has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/article\/1319970--mayor-rob-ford-wins-appeal-will-stay-in-office\" >granted stay<\/a> by  the city courts and may continue his reign as the city\u2019s worst mayor for  another 2 years. This should give opponents from the left, right, and centre  plenty of time to tally up his fresh blunders before he\u2019s replaced \u2013 unless the  voting populace really wants another term with a mayor incapable of raising  private funds for subways and related infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Funniest moment of the day: brother Doug Ford looking  straight into a CTV reporter&#8217;s camera, expressing the virtue of being &#8220;humbled,&#8221; and  thanking the public for their support. Pure theatrics, if not delusion. Rob Ford thanks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/toronto\/toronto-mayor-rob-ford-wins-appeal\/article7848448\/\" >&#8216;thousands of supporters<\/a>,&#8217; which may in fact be all he really has.<\/p>\n<p>This entire legal headache has dragged on for far too long,  wasting time &amp; money, but it taught the courts a lesson: Don\u2019t make poor  rulings and wait two days before clarifying what ought to have been done on the  bench at decision time. Ridiculous.<\/p>\n<p>Moving on.<\/p>\n<p>Just uploaded is a lengthy review of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/dvd_reviews\/h\/4043_HammerHouseOfHorror.htm\">Hammer House of Horror<\/a><\/strong> [<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=6064\">M<\/a>], Synapse\u2019s new 5-disc set with  remastered episodes presented in the original broadcast order. As the teaser  text says, this is a surprisingly fun series with few duds. Pity it never  enjoyed a run beyond Season 1.<\/p>\n<p><em>Coming next<\/em>: \u00a0<strong>Steel  Magnolias <\/strong>on Blu-ray (Twilight Time) \u2013 that classic chick flick which shows how  people can be as beautiful as magnolias, but all steely in constitution.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>,  Editor<br \/>\n<strong>KQEK.com <\/strong>(  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/Main_Index_Page.htm\">Main Site<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php\">Mobile Site<\/a> )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synapse Films recently released a nicely remastered 5-disc set of the Hammer House of Horror, one of the studio&#8217;s last efforts to keep the brand alive in horror before the company was shuttered for more than 20 years. The big surprise: HHOH is a fun, pulpy romp through cruel territory, and the final episode closes the series with material that is, for lack of better words, 100% Wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[1815],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-1zU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6070"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}