The Ohio Sci-Fi and Horror Marathons

Not a Bad movie on this list. John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness and Shaun of the Dead have played recently but the rest would be great.

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Thanks! I have only been to the last 2 years Shock Around the Clock's & loved every minute of both of them! Such a great time! I didn't check the archives. I didn't realize they had recently been shown. I had previously went to The Little Art Theater in Yellow Springs, OH for their 5th & "final" 12 hr horror marathon in 2011. They recently had a huge renovation over the last couple years & more funding. They have stated they would like to bring back the 12 hr marathon this October. Hope they are on different weekends, would love to do both.

I've been to every Columbus 'Thon since 04'...I don't remember Shaun of the Dead playing at those. Was it at the Little Theatre Thon?

Just watched American Psycho...Personally think that would be a great fit for this year.

Shaun of the Dead hasn't shown at any Columbus Horror Marathon. If Joe would like to rectify that situation, however...

Rock N Roll Nightmare
Curse of the Cannibal Confederates
Death Warmed Up
Demonicus

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In the 'grand' tradition of soul-sucking too horrible for the average movie-goer atrocities that the Ohio Marathon books, I present:

HELI.

Here are some review excerpts (seems right up this 'Thon's alley!!):

"The film boasts an exhaustive catalogue of suffering: over the course of 105 minutes we’re asked to endure beatings, shootings, stranglings, abductions, rapes, a public hanging, and, most ostentatiously, the vivid eradication of a man’s privates, last seen wilting in a plume of CGI flame. Not even an adorable puppy is spared. "

"...In the film’s most disturbing moment, a member of the cartel squirts a character’s genitals with lighter fluid, then sets his testicles aflame, all of which we’re made to watch in a distressing long take. The same character is then hung by the neck off of a low bridge for the townsfolk to see..."

"Grim and gritty. Warning: contains punishing scenes of testicle burning"

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We need to know more. Are there subtitles to drive viewers mad? The horror...

Seriously though, once you've seen A Serbian Film, a little testicle burning doesn't sound so disturbing. Seems rather quaint. I don't think this will satisfy our needs as viewers. Try again when you've got something special.

It does appear to have subtitles as it is a Spanish film.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heli_(film)

I just hope there is nothing as bad as Lords of Salem this year.

I'd like to see an animated feature. Perhaps something like Charlie Brown and the Great Pumpkin, any Scooby Doo animated feature, The Pumpkin Tree, and I am sure there are other good ones. It would really make for a nice change of pace.

A few more suggestions that I think would be good 'thon flicks.

Rawhead Rex
Zombie 3
Zombie 4
Popcorn
Critters
Deadly Friend
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
Maximum Overdrive
Dolls
The Monster Squad
Society
Shivers

Well, after reading up on it, I think a Mexican crime drama is just what the horror marathon needs! I've always thought we were a bit lacking in Mexican crime dramas at the horror marathon. Heli sounds like a winner...

That was part of my point as two of the other soul-suckingly horrible Ohio entries have been IRREVERSIBLE (a rape & revenge saga) and A SERBIAN FILM (a road to ruin movie about a pornstar). Hardly "what the horror marathon needs!" in the typical sense either.

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Not that I want to open up this argument yet again, but one could argue that both of those films intend to shock and disturb, which is the aim of modern horror. Showing Heli, a Mexican crime drama, would be like showing The Godfather or Goodfellas, just with more extremely violent scenes.

But I suggest you take up your unresolved issues with the Columbus Marathon with Joe. The subject has been covered here to death, so to speak. Wrong category, wrong year, wrong time.

I've seen IRREVERSIBLE (and other of the Director's works). It was not a horror film in any shape, form or intent.

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We can't jump straight to "Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter" the marathon has never shown a Friday the 13th movie, we need to start with part 1 and work our way up....

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