Category: Event Updates
DISMEMBER THE ALAMO Was A Night to Remember!
The lineup was amazing. The first film of the night was NIGHT OF THE CREEPS (1986) staring the red-blooded resolute stud: Tom Atkins. The film is delightfully 80’s and is about an alien experiment gone terribly wrong, resulting in slug-like brain parasites who enter through the mouth, turning dumb jocks into bloodthirsty zombie-like incubation stations who happen to invade on the night of the Formal… sort of. Actually there is so much going on in this movie that I’ve yet to read a synopsis that does it any justice. Needless to say, this is one of our favorite films and…
by CharlesHarrison
by CharlesHarrison
Unconventional conventionists: Haunters Recap and Looking Forward to Bizarre AC
Dixie Dellamorto and Mr. Lobo had a great time at the National Haunters Convention this past weekend. You could tell they worked hard to make it even better this year. They made it smaller and tightened it up quite a bit. They had some very decent performers on stage and the crowd was great. It seemed like there was more of a focus on artists, and above all, we had a boatload of fun seeing our friends and fans! We were very excited to spend some time with Gravely MacCabre from Castle Blood. While we were at the Halloween show…
by CharlesHarrison
CREATURESCON COMETH!
The San Francisco Bay Area in 1971: Vietnam War protests and bell-bottomed trousers were in the streets, and on television a bespectacled gentleman in a yellow rocking chair, cigar in hand, declared the movie not worth staying up late for. And so was born CREATURE FEATURES! That man was Bob Wilkins, a horror host sans make-up, sans costume, and brimming with cool, dry wit. He would remain in that chair presenting classic Horror and Sci-Fi films, as well as a fair dose of dreck that he made great sport of, every Saturday night for eight years. Fans watched not only…
by CharlesHarrison