Cannot boot into Recovery Mode but need to reinstall OS X, any suggestions?

My Mac boot is stuck at the Apple logo with a progress bar, and even when booting Recovery Mode (Command+R) it is stuck. Hence I don't think I can use Internet Recovery to reinstall OS X. Do you guys have any suggestions as to what to do? Thanks!

FYI:
I have tried booting into Single User Mode, using fsck to repair permissions, but to no avail. However in the Single User Mode I did notice something unusual. When trying to reboot using the command 'exit', a long list of errors came out.
Most were Library/Extensions/... .kext is not authentic; omitting from prelinked kernel.
Some errors were ...: No such file or directory
And afterwards the errors were stuck there and no reboot occurred. I also couldn't type anything.

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