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Attention Marathoids! The countdown has begun for the 24th Annual Ohio 24 Hour Science Fiction Marathon which blasts off at noon Saturday, April 14, 2007 at the Drexel Gateway Cinemas adjacent to the Ohio State University campus. Tickets are $30 through Sunday, April 8, $34 Monday through Friday, April 9-13, and $36 at the door. They will be on sale Friday, March 9 at:
The Drexel Gateway
1550 North High Street
The Drexel
2254 East Main Street
The Drexel Grandview
1247 Grandview Avenue
The Laughing Ogre
4258 North High Street
Tickets may be CHARGED in person at the Drexel Gateway or the Drexel (but not at the Drexel Grandview or the Laughing Ogre) or CHARGED BY PHONE at (614) 222-0947 during business hours. A small fee will be added to each charge order.
Ticket MAIL ORDERS must be postmarked by Saturday, April 7 and include a SASE to:
Drexel Theatres
300 Marconi Blvd - Suite 203
Columbus OH 43215
So far, the following have been confirmed (but as always, EVERYTHING is subject to change):
12 MONKEYS (1995)
Sci Fi Marathon Hall of Famer Terry Gilliam's extrapolation of the classic Chris Marker short LA JETTE wants you to join the Army of the 12 Monkeys!
AUTOMATONS (2006)
Get ready for more Bots, Bots, and more Bots in the Columbus Premiere of this low-tech masterwork.
CHOPPING MALL (1986)
The new robotic mall security guards take no prisoners. What a bad night for an after hours teen make out party in the furniture store. Kelli Maroney stars as the new girl in town, lightning strikes, a head explodes, and Mary Woronov, Paul Bartel and Dick Miller stop by to pick up quick pay checks.
FIDO (2006)
A co-Columbus Premiere with the Deep Focus Film Festival posits a world where the dead have risen from the grave, but lost the war, and are now reduced to the slavery of domestic labor. Dylan Baker, Carrie-Anne Moss and Billy Connolly are the skeptical young Timmy's happy family unit.
FLASH GORDON (1980)
It's a disco-influenced take on Alex Raymond's comic strip interplanetary hero. Sexy and stupid, it's colorful camp with Max von Sydow as Ming the Merciless and Queen's rousing soundtrack.
FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE SPACEMONSTER (1965)
Martians in search of bikini-clad breeding stock to repopulate their devastated planet clash with a robot astronaut run amok. Filmed in Cocoa Beach and Puerto Rico with a swingin' soundtrack by the Poets and the Distant Cousins.
THE GREAT YOKAI WAR (2005)
Japanese folklore runs amok in Takashi Miike's latest award winning offering ... described as a surrealist cross between Terry Gilliam and Hayao Miyazaki.
KING DINOSAUR (1955)
There's new planet in our solar system just begging to be visited. The two man, two woman expedition confront giant beasties, including lizards in makeup recycled from ONE MILLION B.C. and more stock footage than you've seen in one place in a long time. From the always amusing low-budget king Bert I. Gordon.
MINDWARP: AN INFINITY OF TERROR aka GALAXY OF TERROR (1981)
Here's a Roger Corman-produced ALIEN-inspired cheapie with Erin Moran, Ray Walston, Robert Englund, Sid Haig and production design by James Cameron. A space rescue mission goes horribly awry as crew members are done in by their worst nightmares including the above-mentioned giant worm incident.
NIGHT OF THE COMET (1984)
It's a Kelli Maroney double feature! It's the end of the world as we know it? Valley Girls inherit the earth!
PUZZLEHEAD (2005)
James Bai's elegant tale of the thin steel line between Robot and Human.
SLITHER (2006)
More worm problems! David Cronenberg's THEY CAME FROM WITHIN meets Brian Yuzna's SOCIETY meets TREMORS in this small town alien invasion B-movie slugfest with all the pizzazz a modern special effects budget allows.
STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE (1979)
Robert Wise launches the big screen series when the original crew was so much younger. Expect a STAR TREK trailer countdown back to #1. Sit long and prosper?
Plus trailers, cartoons, shorts, contests, chrome survivor certificates, and other thrills too numerous to mention...
And experience oneness with the Marathoid Throng for an entire planetary rotation!
Klaatu Barada Ohio!
GO GO, SF24!!!24242424...
World Watch Wire out (for now)
_________________ David A. Zecchini; Creature of the Wheel, Lord of the Infernal Engines "Damnati Im Ludum" ( VitruvianZeke@att.net)
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