Guns, Blood, Drugs … What Else Could You Ask For?’

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Got this email blast from Echelon Studios this morning and that header totally perplexed us. What else could we ask for? In my mind, Steve was all, “Hot bitches!” — and I was like, “…microfiber cloth…?”

The blast is a promotion for two (appropriately) made-for-DVD titles: Death Rattle Crystal Ice (“meth, murder, mayhem”!) and Blood-Stained Romance (“sometimes love doesn’t have a happy ending”). Priceless blurbage from the latter:

Soon lies turn to murder launching Holden into a spiraling bloodbath of violence and desperation as he tries to hide the infatuation that feeds his madness. Through it all, he tries to cling to a trembling grip on reality, as love and pain coalesce into a shocking “climax”.

Melodramatic run-on sentence? Check. Use of the irresistible “coalesce”? Check. Quotes around “climax”? Check, baby, check.

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