"I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning"
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The “horror marathon” matters, too. Horror is the genre where filmmaking shows its seams: cheap tricks, big reactions, pure mechanics. Tarantino’s work has always been about the pleasure of construction - tension, release, stylized violence, the audience’s complicity. An all-night run of horror isn’t escapism; it’s research and reverence, a way of keeping his senses calibrated to what makes people squirm, laugh, or cheer at the wrong moment.
There’s subtext about time, and about refusing respectable pacing. Going until five in the morning rejects the tidy, adult idea of leisure. It’s the movie-store-clerk ethos he helped mythologize: culture as obsessive accumulation, taste as a lived practice, not a posture. In an era of streaming’s frictionless sampling, the marathon is a dare: commit, stay awake, let the films rewire your nervous system.
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Tarantino, Quentin. (2026, January 17). I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-always-do-an-all-night-horror-marathon-on-24064/
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Tarantino, Quentin. "I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-always-do-an-all-night-horror-marathon-on-24064/.
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"I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-always-do-an-all-night-horror-marathon-on-24064/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.




