50th Science Fiction Marathon - Jan. 17-19, 2025

More information will be released as we get closer to the Marathon itself. Updates will be announced on our Facebook page @CWRUFilms as well as through the 50th Annual Sci-Fi Marathon Facebook event page found here.

Here is the current schedule:

Friday, January 17
8:00pm	Ready Player One (2018, PG-13, 70mm)
10:50pm	It Came From Outer Space (1953, Approved, DCP)
Saturday, January 18
12:30am	Surprise 1 (????, PG-13, 35mm)
2:35am	The Black Hole (1979, PG, Digital)
4:30am	One Million B.C. (1940, Approved, Digital)
6:05am	This Island Earth (1955, Passed, DCP)
7:50am	Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991, R, DCP)
10:25am	Rich's Saturday Morning Cartoon Break (Various, Not Rated, Digital)
11:15am	WALL·E (2008, G, 35mm)
1:10pm	The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951, Approved, 35mm)
3:00pm	The Lost World (1925, Passed, DCP)
5:05pm	2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, G, 70mm)
7:50pm	Surprise 2 (????, Not Rated, DCP)
9:45pm	The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984, PG, 35mm)
11:45pm	Deadpool & Wolverine (2024, R, DCP)

Be sure to check the 50th Annual Science Fiction Marathon Facebook Event for the most recent information.

See below or click the movie titles for more detailed descriptions.

Movies, order and times subject to change. Check back for more information closer to the event.

Tentative Food Schedule TBA

Important Details

Free parking will be available. Details are TBA soon.

Early Arrivals

We are looking into having an official space to gather prior to 6pm outside of Strosacker. We appreciate your understanding.

Admission Information

Admission information is subject to correction. Please check back before finalizing your plans.

Pricing for this year's science fiction marathon is $30 per person. Tickets go on sale Friday, January 17 at 6pm in the lobby of Strosacker Auditorium. No one under 18 admitted without parental supervision.

If you are unable to stay for the entire marathon, you may purchase tickets for movies individually. If you surrender a state or college ID to us, we will allow you to pay $4 per movie you wish to stay for. You are free to stay for more movies than you initially pay for; however, you will be charged the balance before return of your ID. You may also simply purchase a wristband for the remaining balance of the marathon upon your arrival if you do not wish to surrender an ID (maximum charge of $30).

Pre-sale tickets will be announced shortly. All wristbands will be available for pick-up the evening of the event when the doors open. Pre-sale tickets do not allow you to enter the theater before 6:00 pm.

Rules

No alcohol. No glass bottles. No fire hazards. Bring deodorant. Bring a toothbrush. Don't forget your towel. No one under 18 admitted without parental supervision. All bags are subject to inspection before admittance.

STAGE RULES: It is no longer possible to remove the classroom A/V equipment from the stage (stage right/house left side) for Marathon. Aside from losing precious mattress/sleeping bag real estate, we must prevail upon our audience to not fiddle with, place, store, or spill food & beverages on, fold, spindle, mutilate, or otherwise in any way disturb that equipment.

Rules subject to change at the discretion of the CWRU Film Society. Check back closer to the event for any additional rules.

Detailed Movie Descriptions

Friday, January 17
8:00 p.m. Ready Player One (2018)
Rated PG-13 (140 min)
Director: Steven Spielberg
With Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn
Format: 70mm
When the creator of a virtual reality called the OASIS dies, he makes a posthumous challenge to all OASIS users to find his Easter Egg, which will give the finder his fortune and control of his world.
Read more about it at the IMDb

10:50 p.m. It Came From Outer Space (1953)
Approved (81 min)
Director: Jack Arnold
With Richard Carlson, Barbara Rush, Charles Drake
Format: DCP
A spaceship from another world crashes in the Arizona desert and only an amateur stargazer and a schoolteacher suspect alien influence when the local townsfolk begin to act strangely.
Read more about it at the IMDb

Saturday, January 18
12:30 a.m. SURPRISE 1 (????)
Rated PG-13 (?? min)
Director: ???
With ???
Format: 35mm
A surprise... I wonder what it could be...

2:35 a.m. The Black Hole (1979)
Rated PG (98 min)
Director: Gary Nelson
With Maximilian Schell, Anthony Perkins, Robert Forster
Format: Digital
A research vessel finds a missing ship, commanded by a mysterious scientist, on the edge of a black hole.
Read more about it at the IMDb

4:30 a.m. One Million B.C. (1940)
Approved (80 min)
Directors: Hal Roach, Jr., Hal Roach
With Victor Mature, Carole Landis, Lon Chaney, Jr.
Format: Digital
Tale of prehistoric survival and love between a male and a female belonging to opposing tribes that happen to be at slightly different stages of evolution.
Read more about it at the IMDb

6:05 a.m. This Island Earth (1955)
Passed (86 min)
Director: Joseph Newman
With Jeff Morrow, Faith Domergue, Rex Reason
Format: DCP
Aliens come to Earth seeking scientists to help them in their war. This Island Earth can be yours... if the price is right!
Read more about it at the IMDb

7:50 a.m. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Rated R (137 min)
Director: James Cameron
With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong
Format: DCP
Sarah Connor's son, John, is now ten years old, and once again two warriors are sent from the future: one to terminate John before he can become leader of the human resistance, the other to protect him.
Read more about it at the IMDb

10:25 a.m. Rich's Cartoons (various)
Not Rated (33 min)
Format: Digital
WAKE UP! Film Society's faculty advisor Rich Drushel has hand-picked some Saturday morning cartoons just for you. Bring your own Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs.

11:15 a.m. WALL·E (2008)
Rated G (98 min)
Director: Andrew Stanton
With the voices of Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin
Format: 35mm
A robot who is responsible for cleaning a waste-covered Earth meets another robot and falls in love with her. Together, they set out on a journey that will alter the fate of mankind.
Read more about it at the IMDb

1:10 p.m. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
Approved (92 min)
Director: Robert Wise
With Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe
Format: 35mm
Imagine a movie with the same basic premise as Plan 9 From Outer Space, but a lot better. Klaatu is a messenger from outer space, here to implore us to consider world peace over weapons of mass destruction. But do we listen, or are we set in our stupid ways?
Read more about it at the IMDb

3:00 p.m. The Lost World (1925)
Passed (110 min)
Director: Harry O. Hoyt
With Wallace Beery, Bessie Love, Lloyd Hughes
Format: Digital
The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.
Read more about it at the IMDb

Jeff Rapsis

5:05 p.m. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Rated G (149 min)
Director: Stanley Kubrick
With Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester
Format: 70mm
Mankind's evolution from hairy apes to space babies is shown at a crucial waypoint in the far-off year of 2001, as a mysterious intelligence directs Earthlings toward Jupiter. The ship is controlled by the HAL 9000 supercomputer, which never makes mistakes.
Read more about it at the IMDb

7:50 p.m. Surprise 2 (????)
Not Rated (?? min)
Director: ???
With ???
Format: DCP
A surprise...I wonder what it could be...

9:45 p.m. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)
Rated PG (103 min)
Director: W.D. Richter
With Peter Weller, John Lithgow, Ellen Barkin
Format: 35mm
Adventurer, brain surgeon, rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his crime-fighting team, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, must stop evil alien invaders from the eighth dimension who are planning to conquer Earth.
Read more about it at the IMDb

11:45 p.m. Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)
Rated R (128 min)
Director: Shawn Levy
With Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman, Emma Corrin
Format: DCP
Deadpool is offered a place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe by the Time Variance Authority, but instead recruits a variant of Wolverine to save his universe from extinction.
Read more about it at the IMDb