The Ohio Sci-Fi and Horror Marathons

ATTENTION MARATHOIDS!!!

The countdown to the 25th Annual Ohio 24 Hour Science Fiction Marathon is underway.
This year's Marathon will be launched at noon Saturday, April 19 at the Drexel Theatre,
2254 East Main Street in Bexley, and come back to earth at noon Sunday, April 20, 2008.

A few films have already been scheduled. To honor our Journey to the Seventh Theatre
is the Danish/American International outer space adventure JOURNEY TO THE SEVENTH PLANET.
John Hurt and Richard Burton star in the 1984 version of George Orwell's NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR.
Mindless sex and violence for the middle of the night are offered by the Indonesian R-rated rip-off
LADY TERMINATOR. More titles will be announced later this week. As always, you can
expect a few premieres, a few classics, and who knows what else.

Advance tickets will be $35 and go on sale Thursday, March 13 at the Drexel,
Drexel Grandview, 1247 Grandview Avenue, and the Laughing Ogre, 4258 North High Street.
Tickets at the door will be $40. Info on charge by phone or online will be available in a few days.

Also, for the first time, we're also going to offer a 12 hour mini-marathon, running from midnight
Saturday, April 19 until noon Sunday, featuring an abbreviated version of the 'Thon as we know it.
There will be six features to be announced when the film line up is complete, shorts, cartoons
and trailers, prizes and the rest - a sampler for the 'Thon-curious or the gainfully employed who
just don't have the time or can't be bothered with a 24 hour commitment.
Tickets for the Science Fiction Halfathon will be $18 in advance and $20 at the door.

Watch for the announcement of a special guest within a few days!

Klaatu Barada Ohio!

(Just popping this information over here so it's on the read-only board ...)

The 25th Annual OHIO 24 Hour
SCIENCE FICTION MARATHON
Noon Saturday, April 19 until noon Sunday, April 20

Doors should open at about 10:30 Saturday morning.
There will trailers and shorts on screen from about 11:15 to noon.
Noon: Official Countdown and Blast Off!
The 1978 feature version of the BATTLESTAR GALACTICA pilot episode
2:15 The Midwest Premiere of the documentary SPUTNIK MANIA with Eisenhower, Khrushchev and Werhner von Braun
4:00 THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL - introduced by Academy Award winning actress Patricia Neal in person
6:20 The Danish outer space adventure JOURNEY TO THE SEVENTH PLANET followed by 25th Annual COSTUME CONTEST
8:00 Robert Wise & Michael Crichton's THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN
10:30 The Columbus Premiere of the superhero mockumentary BIG MAN JAPAN
1:00 The raunchy Indonesian rip-off LADY TERMINATOR
3:00 John Hurt & Richard Burton in NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR
5:20 Vin Diesel in the dark in PITCH BLACK
7:40 STRANGER FROM VENUS - also starring Miss Neal
9:30 Stanley Kubrick's stylish meditation on ultra-violence A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
with
SPACE BOY
cartoons
short subjects
and the best & worst of vintage & recent sci-fi trailers! trailers!! trailers!!!

The 12 Hour SCIENCE FICTION HALFATHON
Midnight Saturday, April 19 until noon Sunday, April 20

Midnight THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL
1:45 Vin Diesel in the dark in PITCH BLACK
3:50 Stanley Kubrick's stylish meditation on ultra-violence A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
6:30 The Danish outer space adventure JOURNEY TO THE SEVENTH PLANET
8:15 The raunchy Indonesian rip-off LADY TERMINATOR
10:00 The Columbus Premiere of the superhero mockumentary BIG MAN JAPAN
and cartoons, short subjects and trailers

This is scheduled sequence of films. The scheduled times are somewhat approximate due to trailers, short subjects and general pandemonium. As always, due to the potential for cosmic calamity, titles and schedule are subject to change.

Klaatu Barada Ohio!

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David A. Zecchini; Creature of the Wheel, Lord of the Infernal Engines
"Damnati Im Ludum" (VitruvianZeke@att.net)