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Can you believe that I’ve been doing this for six years? Hot damn! June 11th marks the sixth birthday of Cinema Suicide and to mark the occasion, I bring you a review of the latest Blu-ray from Severin Films, The Manson Family from notorious director, Jim Van Bebber.

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This week I take a look at the latest from Don Coscarelli, John Dies At The End, adapted from a novel by David Wong. If slacker humor with a heavy tilt toward H.P. Lovecraft and doorknobs that transform magically into penises are your bag, you’ll want to have a look at this one.

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Since a bacteriological infection makes my right hand pretty much unusable right now, I have to take a timeout for hopefully not longer than a week or so.

If I owe you tweets, guest blogs or emails, I'll get to them once I can type like a grown-up again.

Poking around in a hidden ancient site somewhere in Maine by archaeologist Joseph Leshem (Hill Harper) activates some curious mechanisms in Stonehenge that begin sucking large amounts of electromagnetic energy out of the planet's "energy grid" and fry a few tourists. The British government at once quarantines the area and sends in a team of scientists led by Dr. Trousdale (Peter Wingfield) and Dr. Kaycee Leeds (Torri Higginson) to investigate the phenomenon.

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aka Devil's Flute

I may or may not have mentioned here that I'm not much of an admirer of so-called "Golden Age" mysteries. I just don't care enough about puzzles, it seems. However, if you're like John Dickson Carr, or Japanese writer Seishi Yokomizo and dress up your puzzles in irresistible strangeness, I'm all yours.

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Peter Cushing, the legendary actor who played Sherlock Holmes, Van Helsing, Frankenstein and Grand Moff Tarking would have been 100 years old last Sunday and in honor of his birthday, Frankensteinia, the blog of all things Frankenstein is celebrating with a week long blogathon dedicated to all things Peter Cushing.

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Mysterious writer of authentically prophetic books Rupert Crane (Matthew Walker) mysteriously calls in proof-reader Eric Fox (A.J. Buckley) to personally fetch the manuscript for his first book in decades. Now, Eric has no connection to the man he knows of, and really finds the whole idea rather bizarre, but when his publishing boss calls, he has to go. And his publishing boss very much wants to keep Crane happy.

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Marionette (2013)
Director: Kwon Young-Rak
Writer: N/A
Cast: Lee Jong-Su, Koo Ji-Sung, Won Ki-Jun

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aka Inferno

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12 Rounds 2: Reloaded (2013)
Director: Roel Reine
Writer: David Benullo
Cast: Randy Orton, Cindy Busby, Brian Markinson

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Curse of Chucky (2013)
Director: Don Mancini
Writer: Don Mancini
Cast: Brad Dourif, Brennan Elliott, Danielle Bisutti

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A nameless man, let's call him The Driver (Ryan O'Neal), works as a highly successful hired-gun escape car driver for various criminals, if he deigns those criminals to be professional enough for him. The Driver doesn't like guns much, or rather, the people he works for actually shooting their guns, he's big on punctuality, as well as his prospective partners not being fools that'll get him killed or caught.

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Batman Forever (1995)
Director: Joel Schumacher
Writers: Lee Batchler, Janet Scott Batchler, Akiva Goldsman

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Dead Mine (2012)
Director: Steven Sheil
Writers: Ziad Semaan, Steven Sheil
Cast: Ario Bayu, Afwan, Andre

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We agents of M.O.S.S. defy your oppressive assumptions about seasons in the northern hemisphere. To prove you (yes you!) wrong, May will be all about ice, snow and everything cold for us. Everything is better in winter, after all. This time around, I take a look at yet another SyFy movie. To my defence: it was the closest Yeti movie I hadn't watched.

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Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964)
Director: Ishiro Honda
Writer: Shin'ichi Sekizawa
Cast: Akira Takarada, Yuriko Hoshi, Hiroshi Koizum

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