Tickets Now On Sale for the 14th Annual 24 Hour Movie Marathon
Tickets are $65 and tend to sell fast. Don’t forget your pillows and covert midnight snacks, stress balls, care bears, valium, etc, etc:
Think you could bear sitting through 24 hours worth of random, unheard of, cult classic and sometimes premier films? I would say you can trust the organisers because they know great films and where to find them, but at this event it’s best to leave all your expectations at the door. I’ve been to more than a few of these marathons and expaned my personal DVD collection based on what I saw, and other times councilling was needed to suspress the trauma my hippocampus sustained followed by a priest sprinkling holy water on my eyeballs. But the risk is the whole fun of this event, you have to take the sour with the sweet, if you can stay awake that is.
Each year we have one night in New Zealand that is devoted to hardcore movie maniacs. Your bog standard couch potatoes need not apply. We are talking the Mt Freaking Everest of movie viewing experiences. For twenty four non-stop hours we show cine-dementia.
‘Every film plays unannounced – you have no idea what lies ahead for the rest of the night. In the year Two Thousand, the Marathon was in Auckland at the Chinatown Cinema – it was a only 7 or so hours long. Some of the films that played that first night we think included The Story of Ricky, Voodoo Black Exorcist, The Time Travellers and The Braniac. We think. It all gets kinda hazy. Ever since then the Marathon has creeped up in duration until it re-launched as a 24 hour monster in 2004.
We’ve had some pretty cool New Zealand premieres over the years as well including SAW, TEAM AMERICA, NAPOLEON DYNAMITE, DEVILS REJECTS, THE DESCENT, CRANK, KISS KISS BANG BANG, THE RUINS and many more.
If you haven’t been to the movie marathon before and want to find out more, check out the FAQ and all your questions will be answered.
The audiences for the marathons have been excellent and respectful of their paying brethren around them. So lets keep it up. We want a living room feel to the proceedings, just not the living room of a drunk unfunny loser.
We cover many film genres throughout the night. Be warned, there will always be an element of sleaze in the marathon. it just doesn’t seem right without seeing some nudity and sex late at night. So there will always be people screaming, people being killed and usually a monster makes an unwelcome appearance or two.
There is usually one mainstream film that was so off kilter at its time of release it is now some executives bad memory.
Like drinking absinthe. Attending a movie marathon is something everyone should do once in their life.
We’ll save you a seat.
~ Ant TIMPSON Twitter: Timpson’
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