Horror Headlines: Monday August 3rd, 2009

Richard Kelly's "The Box" has been pushed back a week to November 6th, 2009. The studio is continuing their trend of treating this film like a dirty whore, so I wouldn't set your heart on a release date until you're actually sitting in a seat.

So, yesterday Lindsday Lohan seemed to indicate via her twitter page that she had signed on to Robert Rodriguez's "Machete". A quick perusal of the page now reveals that the tweets in question have been deleted. So... that may or may not have happened.

In Real People News: 

There is now an online archive of the biggest criminal trials from the 18th, 29th and 20th centuries. The archive does include the trial of "Jack The Ripper", Dr Thomas Neil Cream, who confessed to the murders despite the fact that he had been in jail when some of them had been committed.

If you're going to pass a bad check, you might not want to have it be to a voodoo priestess. I hear they're pretty good at the whole revenge thing.

These declassified Russian documents on UFO's are pretty saucy... at least if you're like me and love a good UFO conspiracy theory. Check it out.

On this day in history: 

1966: Comedian and social critic Lenny Bruce dies of a morphine overdose in his Hollywood Hills home, two years after his original obituary was published in The Realist. At the time of his death, Bruce was being maliciously harassed by police and districts attorney in various states for his groundbreaking standup performances, causing great difficulty in finding venues at which to perform.

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