The GunnKiss Murder Mystery Channel: The Murder of Theresa Pamela Jacobs.

 

Welcome back to another GunnKiss Murder Mystery post, I’m here today to talk about the Murder of Theresa Pamela Jacobs. If You would like to listen to me tell the story and comment on it rather than read then check the YouTube link below these words, if you would rather read about it then scroll past the video.

The thing that made me want to touch on this murder the most was the fact that a fire arm was involved, you see most people tend to think that the UK does not have guns and while it is certainly true that we don’t have the amount that America has they certainly are in this country.

According to the most recent figures for England and Wales, there are 156,033 people certificated to hold firearms and they own 617,171 weapons. These are just the registered weapons though according to research it is estimated that in 2018 there were 978,000 unregistered firearms in England, Scotland and Wales, and 53,000 in Northern Ireland.

These might sound like high numbers but if you’re keeping your nose clean and don’t happen to know any farmers or game keepers then you are highly unlikely to ever see a real gun anywhere other than in the arms of a specially trained fire arms police officer and to be honest you don’t even see these officers often.

 I myself have only seen a real gun in the arms of someone who was not a police officer once and that was a very surreal experience…. I saw a young child carry an uzi to his father who then waved it at some guys in a car while screaming that he would kill them, this was back when I was around 16 and I have never seen anything like this since.

Ok so now I have explained the availability of Fire arms in the UK let’s get back to the case at hand

Theresa Jacobs was gunned down outside a Nottingham club and according to the police she was a deliberately targeted victim of the city's drug trade. Theresa Jacobs had apparently been to the nightclub with a male friend and it was when leaving that the crime happened.

33-year-old Mrs Jacobs, of Courtleet Way, Bulwell had left the club in Radford only moments before she died of a single bullet wound to the back of the head at point blank range, it was a Saturday morning at about 2.30 and the club she had just left and been murdered outside of was the Drum Club on Ilkeston Road in Nottingham it was the 9^th of November in 2002.

The police said that she was deliberately targeted in part of a drugs war in Nottingham and that is why she was shot at point-blank range in an execution style killing. Detectives claimed that it was part of the ongoing battle for lucrative control of hard drugs, apparently, she was said to have been a dealer of crack cocaine. Despite such a point blank shot she did not immediately die she was taken to the Queen's Medical Centre by ambulance where she was stabilised and emergency surgery was carried out, but she died later that day in the hospital’s intensive care unit.

Police used a press conference to appeal for witnesses, there were said to have been about 40 people outside the club at the time yet only a handful of witnesses came forward and what information they came forward with was not enough.

Detective superintendent Michael Ward told a press conference at Nottinghamshire police headquarters in Arnold the shooting was a "tragic loss of life." He went on to say that

 "This loss of life of a young woman is very sad but from the evidence so far I can say that we believe she was the intended target.

"She was shot at the closest possible range and it has the hallmarks of an intended killing possibly linked to the drugs supply network in Nottingham.

"In the last year we have seen an increase in shooting incidents linked to competing drug supply networks in the city.

"Now we have seen this tragic loss of life of this young woman.

"The world has changed in the past three years. People are willing to settle their disputes by the use of firearms.

"It is quite obvious that the person responsible intended to have the most effect from the use of this weapon."

Mrs Jacobs' killer was described only as a man wearing a hooded garment, he approached his victim from some industrial units which were located near Bulwell Road and he left the scene of the crime running heading towards the city centre. A Jamaican national was charged with her murder at one point but the Crown Prosecution Service offered no evidence and the case collapsed.

The murder inquiry which was launched was part of something called Operation Stealth, which was set up to tackle drug related-gun crime in Nottingham. The Information I found on Operation Stealth showed that in the process of it the police dealt with almost 20 drug-related firearms incidents and arrested 114 people, a substantial number of whom were charged with serious offences. They also recovered 28 firearms, 130 rounds of ammunition and around £200,000 of class A drugs.

The GunnKiss Murder Mystery Channel: 1837 Baseford Murders

 Part 1

The Murder

Part 2

The Court Case

Part 3

My thoughts on the matter

You Are Not My Mother Horror House Review

 

I was flicking through the various movie streaming services I pay for looking for something horror related but a little bit different, I put the trailer on for this film and instantly decided that this was something I needed to see.

The film starts with a baby in a stroller. A woman takes this baby into the woods and places her in a circle and then starts a fire around it. The movie then shifts into the present day. A teenager called Char has overslept and asks her grandma for a ride to school as she is going to be late but her grandmother says that she cannot do it because her legs hurt too much. Char’s Grandma suggests that she goes and asks her mother to see if she can take her.

This drive to school is awkward with Char first asking her mother how she is before asking if she can go to the store after dropping her off to get some food as there is nothing in the house. The mother Angela says she is tired but, in all honesty, she seems like she is worn out and barely holding on. Given the title of the film this made me instantly start to wonder if there was a problem with Char. Was this girl some kind of demon spawn was that why we had seen her placed in a circle of fire at the start was this an attempt to get rid of her, and is the mother tired and mentally worn down because this demon child was somehow draining her?

Following Char to school we find out that she is a real outsider, she has no friends and is being bullied by a large group of girls but it gets even worse for her after school, when she is walking home, she sees her mother's car left abandoned. Later that night her mother returns home. She isn't acting how she normally does though.

I can’t really say much more about this film without spoiling it, for me it is one of those films where you need to be pulled along and kept guessing to truly get the most from it. If you are anything like me then you will question the situation is this a film about mental health or the supernatural? I enjoyed the film but if your into action based horror this is not going to be your thing it’s a slower more thought provoking piece if you want to see buckets of blood this is not the film for you, if you want to watch a very talented actress play a woman who is either possessed or very mentally ill while you try to weigh up all the options in your mind then you will love this film Carolyn Bracken deserves series credit for making this film what it is and being scary as hell. I would give it 6 out of 10, its worth a watch but its not a classic that you will find yourself returning to again and again.

 

So, what we have here with The Furies is an Ozploitation flick, a relatively low budget horror film made in Australia. The one thing The Furies isn't is original: it's a little bit Hostel, a little bit Hunger Games, and a lot of 80’s style slasher But despite its lack of originality if you like your Jason Voorhees and Michael Myers flavoured films then I am sure that you will find this film to be an absolute hoot the director Tony D'Aquino absolutely douses the screen in blood in this film his debut feature but he also kind of managed to stick two fingers up at many a copyright and gets away with it.

The film opens as two friends, Kayla and Maddie, are abducted, they are then rendered unconscious. Kayla wakes up inside a wooden black coffin like box in the middle of a remote forest with her friend Maddie nowhere to be seen. It doesn’t take long for Kayla to discovers that she and the other young women are being hunted by a group of masked killers, a bunch of masked killers who look like low rent copies of Leather Face, Jason and various other classic slashers. Each of these maniacs is armed with the kind of grizzly sharp weapons that you would imagine. I don’t want to give every single bit of the plot away as it kind of turns and winds while constantly throwing cliches at you, but what it offers on an equal level to cliché is gore, this film is an absolute gore hounds funfest. If you want to see things slashed, smashed ripped and torn in a spray of blood then this is most definitely the film for you.

None of the cast were people that I recognised in the slightest but I have to admit that Airlie Dodds is a very good leading lady and it is very easy to find yourself rooting for her. The gore is great it all looks very real, lots of lovely practical effects here no dodgy CGI to cringe over but most importantly in my opinion is the films pacing which is absolutely on point, the film is around 80 minutes but it really feels like it is constantly racing forward never stopping or slumping and ending at a point which feels like a natural ending but also leaves you wanting more and hoping for a sequel.

If you like gore and 80’s slashers in particular then this film will be right up your alley. Like I have said it is far from original the film is made up of all kinds of bits and pieces of plenty of films you will have seen before but I think what is there is pieced together really well to make a fun and interesting film which I can’t help but heartily recommend, to this end I find myself giving this film an 8 out of 10, sure its not going to change the world but it is a good fun film full of interesting if not original ideas and grizzly deaths.

The Silence Horror House Review

 

So, what we have here is a film which is basically about little monsters that can basically be described as prehistoric cave gremlin bat hybrids. On their own one of these creatures would be a serious pain but the real problem is that they don’t arrive on their own they tend to arrive in swarms, it’s like what if we remade Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds with what H R Giger drew while smoking weed and looking at bats.

We follow the Andrews family which consists of Hugh Andrews, his wife, his son, his mother-in-law and most importantly for the story his daughter Ally who suffers from acute deafness, and communicates in sign language, now not to give too much away but this is something which you would think would be a weakness but actually turns out to give the family a useful tool.

The Silence very much feels like a hodgepodge of ideas from other films, it feels like there is a sprinkle of The Mist here and a pinch of Cloverfield there. I think with the deaf daughter it feels like it has this one idea that it really wants to lean heavily into and to hang its hat off, it feels a little bit like a one trick pony at times. What the film did well for me at least is to establish its characters well giving them enough time to develop effectively which in turn helps you to care about them and their fate, I think the film does a pretty good job of making them feel like a real family with multi layered relationships within it, you not only know who these people are but what they all mean to each other and I would put a lot of this down to very good acting.

I especially have to give props to Stanley Tucci who provides a strong lead, I think the film did a good job of setting up its post-apocalyptic world but later on the film seemed to lose its step a little, I don’t want to talk about the plot piece by piece but there’s a point for me where the story just swerves off, add to this that for me the film ends rather abruptly. Part of me feels that this would have worked better as a short mini series with a few ideas expanded upon and a more definitive ending. I think the film sets up the potential for a lot of ingesting ideas but doesn’t see enough of them through but I suppose at least it doesn’t outstay its welcome the very fact I wish there was a little more is a lot better than getting to a point where I keep looking at my watch praying for it to end.

For me this was an enjoyable but equally forgettable film, it happily filled an hour and a half of my time and I liked it but I also don’t feel like I will feel any urge to return to it in the future but that’s ok, not every film needs to be a stone-cold classic, I would give it a 6 out of 10.

My Retro Game Purchases May 2022

Well it has been awhile since I have done one of these posts based on what Retro games I have purchased in any set month but I figured why not rectify this by offering up one now. I suppose I should start by saying that during the last 2 years and a bit since doing this kind of post I have purchased lots of stuff some of which I will have chronicled on my YouTube channel but falling upon my old blog I realised what a fun record it was for me to look back on showing what I spent on what games and equipment and when I spent it and hopefully other people who read this will enjoy it as well.

This was a very slow retro month for me in fact I only purchased stuff once during the whole month and it was on May the 28th I went to visit a guy with an Indy store and splurged £95 on a bundle of games, some of its retro and some is new but thought id post it here , it was one of those keep slapping things on the counter and ill name my price deal so cant say what I paid for individual things.

Magical Taruruuto-kun Magic Adventure cart only for the SNES JAPANESE

Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 9 (Konami baseball) for GameCube complete JAPANESE (My first Japanese Gamecube game)

Arms complete for Switch
The Survivalists Complete for Switch
The Legend of Zelda Links awakening for Switch

Fire Pro Wrestling World complete for PS4

Everybodys Golf complete for PSP

Disney Planes for 3DS complete
Mensa Acadey for 3DS complete
Phonics fun Volume 1 for 3DS complete (going to give this my daughter as she's doing a teaching course and wants these)

Kirby's Pinball Land cart only for Gameboy
Dr Mario cart only for Gameboy
Pac Panic cart only for Gameboy

Its a good Job I don't do this kind of thing often
Magical Taruruuto-kun cart only for GameBoy JAPANESE
On the Tiles cart only for Gameboy


This was it my entire retro purchases of the month in one visit, and what part of it did I like the most, well I found it really cool to get my first Japanese GameCube game its neat to see the different style of box and it really left me wanting more. I guess we will see next month if I spend more or less on retro gaming.

KERR9000 Horror House Review SCREAM (AKA Scream 5)

 

I was always a massive Wes Craven fan, I loved the Original Nightmare on Elm Street as well as The Last House on the Left, the Hills have eyes, in fact I would go so far as to say the man was one of the true Masters of Horror. When the original Scream first came out it was in my humble opinion a great movie because it took Wes Cravens brain for horror but added in what at the time was modern technology and fresh ideas. Craven directed all 4 of the Scream films up to this point but with his passing the question was who would be at the helm for the 5th film and would they be able to live up to the high standards set by a Master of Horror like Craven.

I am very happy to say that this fifth film in the SCREAM franchise went way beyond my personal expectations, I was really worried that without Wes Cravens influence it would miss a step and just become a hollow cash grab hollowed out corpse lacking all its former glory but that is not the case at all


This new film finds the franchise returning to its former glory, the film kept twisting and turning and keeping me guessing with what I would describe as a smart script that pays just enough tribute to the original 1996 movie whilst also managing to present new and unique ideas of its own. The original Scream felt like a love letter to slasher movies, part slasher film, part parody, but also very aware that while it was pointing out clichés it was also committing to a few itself. This Scream Movie does to the semi sequel semi reboot crop of current Horror movies exactly what Scream did to slashers, it discuses these new requels as it refers to them, it lays out the tricks they pull the rules they follow critiques them, sometimes pokes fun at them but ultimately sets out to to also try and be the best darn example of this genre that it can possibly be.


This film has a great cast, which not only includes plenty of characters from the earlier films, but also plenty of new and talented actors. It is great to see so many of the classic characters and where they are in there life, how the events of previous movies have affected them but the film doesn't linger on them too long either it helps set up the new characters equally well. If your anything like me you will soon find yourself not only deciding who you care about and who you want to see survive, not only will you pick your favourites though you will also start making guesses about who to trust and who not to.


There are lots of bits of this film that I would like to talk about things that I personally think are really cool or are neat little touches but I think the film works better if you go in to it fresh and discover these for yourself so I would rather keep this review spoiler free and in stead talk about the general spirit and feel of the film instead of run it down scene by scene. I think its the ideal film to discuss and ruminate on with friends though, particularly if you have all seen the earlier films in the series, so grab a pizza, grab a buddy or two and give it a go.

It's bloody at times its also funny it's tension-filled and has a fantastic payoff, without giving too much away this film has a surprisingly intelligent connection to the original. Overall I would give this film a 9 out of 10 and call it a must see Modern Horror, its a fantastic Tribute to Wes Craven the Directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett should be incredibly proud.