Suicide Club

Suicide Club commonly refers to:

  • The Suicide Club (Stevenson), an 1878 short story cycle written by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • one of a number of stage, film and television adaptations of the Stevenson stories
  • Suicide Club (secret society), a San Francisco based secret society named after the Stevenson stories
  • The Suicide Club (1909 film), American silent short film, directed by D. W. Griffith
  • The Suicide Club (1914 film), British silent drama film released in 1914
  • Suicide Club (film), a Japanese film released in 2002
  • The Suicide Club (novel), a 2009 novel written by Rhys Thomas
  • The Suicide Club (1988 film), a 1988 starring Lenny Henry
  • Suicide Club (secret society)

    The Suicide Club was a secret society in San Francisco credited as the first modern extreme urban exploration society, and also known for anarchic group pranks. Despite the name the club was not actually about suicide.

    History

    The club was founded by Gary Warne and three friends: Adrienne Burk, David Warren, and Nancy Prussia. It began in Spring 1977 as a course that Warne taught at the Communiversity in San Francisco, part of the Free School Movement, and it lasted until shortly before Warne's death in 1983. Events generally started and ended in Warne's used paperback bookstore, Circus of the Soul.

    The name of the Suicide Club was inspired by three stories written by Robert Louis Stevenson, where men who want to die belong to a club, where each evening one of them is randomly selected for death. The name belied the gentle albeit zany nature of its members, who had a predilection towards light-hearted practical jokes.

    Activities

    Membership in the San Francisco Suicide Club was attained by attending an "initiation" ceremony that took place sporadically. Any member could propose any type of event, and it would be listed along with a writeup in the Club's monthly mailer, sardonically named the "Nooseletter." There were five or so general categories that most events fell into:

    Suicide Club (film)

    Suicide Club, known in Japan as Suicide Circle (自殺サークル Jisatsu Sākuru) is a 2002 Japanese independent horror film written and directed by Sion Sono. The film explores a wave of seemingly unconnected suicides that strikes Japan and the efforts of the police to determine the reasons behind the strange behavior.

    Suicide Club gained a considerable amount of notoriety in film festivals around the world for its controversial subject matter and gory presentation. It has developed a significant cult following, and won the Jury Prize for "Most Ground-Breaking Film" at the Fantasia Film Festival.

    Plot

    The film takes place over a time period spanning six days, with footage from a fictional pop group "Dessart" opening the movie and closing during the credits.

    In Tokyo on May 27, 54 teenage schoolgirls commit mass suicide by throwing themselves in front of an oncoming train. Shortly after, at a hospital, two nurses commit suicide by jumping out of a window. At both locations rolls of flesh are found, with the missing skin matching removed flesh on corpses. Three detectives Kuroda (Ryô Ishibashi), Shibusawa (Masatoshi Nagase), and Murata (Akaji Maro) are notified by a hacker named Kiyoko (Yoko Kamon) of a link between the suicides and a website that shows the number of suicides as red and white circles.

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    Suicide Club

    by: Sterlin

    Turn the world inside out,
    I’ll change the night into day,.
    When I light up the sky, tonight
    You gotta hold the line,
    It’s a matter of time,
    Just hold the line.
    Can you see, can you see,
    Can you see me down here on my knees,
    Give me the darkness I need.
    Is it true what they say,
    You’re judged by what you do,
    Well I think so too, do you
    Now the moment’s arrived,
    I’ve been shaking for hours,
    Does this make me a coward.
    Can you see, can you see
    Can you see me down here on my knees
    Give me the darkness I need
    Just thinking ‘bout the ones I love,
    Welcome to the suicide club
    Can you see, can you see
    Can you see me down here on my knees
    Give me the darkness I need
    Just thinking ‘bout the ones I love,
    Welcome to the suicide club
    Welcome to the suicide club
    Welcome to the suicide club
    Welcome to the suicide club
    Welcome to the suicide club
    Turn the world inside out,
    I’ll change the night into day,.




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