Marathon Me: A Movie Marathon Podcast Rhys Marks, Kane Murcott

HOSTEL FRANCHISE MARATHONWhat happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.A Hostel direct-to-DVD sequel - did not know this was going to happen. The Elite Hunting Club has expanded to the city of sin, and we follow a group of degenerate men on a bachelor's-weekend in Vegas, where they indulge in all of the vices, only to find themselves in vices by the end.Rhys and Kane explore if Eli Roth leaving the franchise, tears down the solid fabric of the series, or if this strange cousin of a movie may become a...

HOSTEL FRANCHISE MARATHONThis one's for the girls.A feminist masterpiece? Not quite. But this follow up is a nice counterpart to the heavily dude-oriented first film, with possibly a lot more to say: about female-focused objectification, uber-rich greed, and incel culture.'Hostel: Part II' sees us go back to Slovakia, with a trio of adventurous young women. Obviously, they have a trip full of friendship, fun and pictures of tourist destinations; and none of the women get tortured (spoiler ale...

HOSTEL FRANCHISE MARATHONMoving on from the spawn of Satan entering the world of the living, to the living entering a hell-on-earth: a new marathon is under way, and it's Hostel.Eli Roth's second major film, spawning from the wallet of Quentin Tarantino, this franchise sees the 'Elite Hunting Club' traffic human beings in Slovakia for the uber-rich to do with them as they will and explore the disgusting extremity of human objectification.Rhys and Kane try to hold in their lunch and not pass o...

THE OMEN FRANCHISE MARATHON6 films, touching 6 decades, with 6 takes on the anti-Christ (to varying degrees of quality)Some friends are only with you for a short time, and some are with you for life. Damien is one of the lifelong homies. After investigating and diving into the sometimes scary, sometimes wild world of The Omen, the boys have found another home amidst the religious imagery and anxieties of this cinematic universe.Rhys and Kane go through their individual rankings of the franchi...

THE OMEN FRANCHISE MARATHONFinally we're at the final Omen film, and for some reason, it likes to go by as 'The First Omen'. It's okay; aging is scary, we get it.The long anticipated PREQUEL. Will it have the prequel curse? Will it have the actual curse that the original film had? If you've read any reviews yet, you'll see that pleasantly, no! This actually sort of rocks.Kane and Rhys unpack 'Immaculate 2,' I mean: 'The First Omen,' and see how one of these films plays out in our current clim...

THE OMEN FRANCHISE MARATHONThe only film to my knowledge to be solely made because of the novelty of it's release date - having come out 06/06/06; what a hell of a time.The Omen sees on one fateful night, the rebirth of the antichrist... coming in the form of a small child named Damien. [Liev Shreiber]'s perfect, wholesome and almost soap-opera-like life gets completely torn apart, when he realises his son may be more than what he thought he was...This sounds a bit familiar.Rhys and Kane esse...