Rolfe Kanefsky532 viewsThis is Rolfe Kanefsky, director of THERE'S NOTHING OUT THERE and one of our guests at the 4th Annual Night of the Living Drexel, looking a bit buzzed after 24 hours of stark terror. His film was one of the audience's favorites and he followed it with a fun Q&A. (bar2b2)
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Punk Couple Conquers Costume Contest521 viewsThe gent on the left (Ralph Parker) won this year's costume contest dressed as Alex from A CLOCKWORK ORANGE. His companion placed in the money with her ace Frankenhooker duds. They would reappear at the next year's Marathon as ROCKY HORROR's Frank N. Furter and Carrie White, although neither would finish in the top three. Parker would later team up with his friend Syd Keeney to win the 1993 NOTLD costume contest as Herbert West and Dr. Hill's head from RE-ANIMATOR.(Neff)
Paste-up for 1999 Marathon t-shirt521 views*This was the first Marathon t-shirt I ever designed. Even though I considered it about half-successful in artistic terms, it sold out in the first half of the event. Subsequent t-shirts (which I considered to be much more artistically successful) often struggled to sell out. So goes the fickle finger of fate.
*The back of the shirt featured the slimy skull artwork from SQUIRM, and the tag line "When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the Studio." This was, of course, a nod to the iconic line from DAWN OF THE DEAD. However, it was also a tip o' the skull cap to Bruce's past work, as he had included the same line (with "Drexel" in place of "Studio") on the flier for the 1st NIGHT OF THE LIVING DREXEL 24-Hour Horror Marathon.(Neff)
The Line Again - 10:31 AM521 views
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Tim Martin (then-Grandview manager) as the world's scariest M&M515 views
Paste-up for rare teaser flier for 1999 Marathon515 viewsIn the fall of 1999, there was a plan in place for a third edition of the SHOCKTOBERFEST event (to be titled SON OF SHOCKTOBERFEST) at the Drexel Grandview. Unfortunately, that plan fell apart. I had been employed at Studio 35 Cinema since early in the year, so I pitched then-owner John Conti the idea of resurrecting the 24-Hour format. Hence, from the ashes of the all-nighter rose the classically formatted Marathon we all know an love. The catch? SON OF SHOCKTOBERFEST fell apart at the beginning of October, so to give ourselves enough prep and promo time we scheduled the Marathon for the second weekend of November. This teaser flier was distributed in limited amounts before the full lineup was booked. (Neff)
