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Melvin Junko is the out cast janitor at the Tromaville Health Club. Nobody liked him. After a prank gone wrong, which causes Melvin to fall into a barrel nuclear waste, which transforms him into a hideously deformed creature of super human size and strength. Melvin became… The Toxic Avenger! The Toxic Avenger is mopping the streets, getting rid of the muggers and the rapists. But will Tromaville’s corrupt mayor stop him?

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Massachusetts is home to many strange and ghostly stories handed down for generations, from vengeful witches and tragic ghosts to UFOs and monsters. This book tells the best stories of the state by region. Featuring: The Legend of Lucy Keyes, The Dover Demon, The Black Flash, The Lizzie Borden House and North America’s First UFO.

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If it’s unusual or unexplainable or fantastic, and in the Bay State, you’ll find it all here in Weird Massachusetts. See how the world’s biggest elephant now fits into a peanut butter jar and why it brings good luck to students, listen for those unexplained booms in Nashoba, discover the hidden secrets at Wizard’s Glen and Altar Rock, escape from the Sea Witch and the Cape Cod Mermaid, check out the Museum of Burnt Food, or eat an apple from one of Isaac Newton’s famous apple trees—but whatever you do, don’t pick up a red-headed hitchhiker on Route 44. It’s all here. It’s all weird and it’s all in Massachusetts.

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Sisters Emily and Danielle invite friends to their parents’ house in the Hamptons for a weekend, and everything’s going well until the partiers smoke some tainted marijuana that turns the dream holiday into a nightmare in this gory horror flick. As some members of the group experience a violent reaction to the weed, the others find themselves in a horrific fight for their lives.

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Alexandre Aja’s remake of Joe Dante’s campy 1978 horror film, is itself a satire of Steven Spielberg’s Jaws. When an earthquake tears open the bottom of Lake Havasu, schools of carnivorous piranhas are released from their underwater lair, and the lake turns into a bloody, frenzied death trap for unwitting water-goers during spring break.

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Playboy club owner J.P. buys a mysterious looking puzzle box and mistakes it for a work of art, he has no idea that Pinhead – “the Black Pope of Hell,” is trapped inside and playing tricks on his mind. Pinhead tries his best to manipulate J.P. into breaking him out of his prison — that is, until an astute journalist begins to suspect something.

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A couple move into an old house and discover a hideous creature – the man’s half-brother (and his wife’s former lover) – hiding upstairs. Having lost his earthly body to three demons, the man’s been brought back to life by a drop of blood on the floor. Soon, he’s forcing his former mistress to bring him human sacrifices to complete his body.