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We attended last years Mad Monster Party in Charlotte, NC and I have to say it was a great show. Plenty of guests and fun all weekend. This year the show returns to The Blake Hotel March 22 – 24th. Check out their awesome guests list for this one…..
I guess everyone has a favorite horror convention they like to attend. For us here at Monsters From The Basement it is our home town show, The Full Moon Tattoo And Horror Fest. Now in it’s 12th year this show gets better and better. Full Moon is put on by our friends Ben and Stacey Dixon and we look forward to it each and every year.
Click here to see more about the Full Moon Tattoo And Horror Fest
Well, it’s convention time again and the first big show of the year is Days Of The Dead in Atlanta, Georgia. This is the second year in a row that Adolfao Dorta and his staff have put on the show in Atlanta. We had a great time last year and this year promises to be even better. Check out the guest list which includes not one, not two, not three but four major movie reunions!!!
Special VIP Guest Ace Frehley – Guitar Legend
The reunion that I am the most excited about at this show is the Return Of The Living Dead Reunion. Return is my all time favorite horror movie and I can’t wait to see the cast again.
The cast members from Return Of The Living Dead attending Days Of The Dead are….
Linnea Quigley
Beverly Randolph
Thom Matthews
Jewel Shepard
Brian Peck
John Philbin
Allan Trautman AKA Tarman
Don Calfa
Clu Gulager
If that isn’t enough for you, how about two more reunions, The Devils Rejects and House Of 1000 Corpes
Featuring Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, Danny Trejo, Diamond Dallas Page, Ginger Lynn Allen, Michael Berryman, PJ Soles, Leslie Easterbrook, Jennifer Justin, Tom Towles, David Reynolds, Irwin Keys, Robert Mukes and Walter Phelan!!!
Also the stars of The Blair Witch Project!!!
Heather Donahue
Michael Williams
Joshua Leonard
The Blair Witch Project
Plus all of these stars as well!!
Patti Mullen – Frankenhooker
Dick Miller
Tony Todd
Gunner Hansen
Jake The Snake Roberts
Mickie James
Kane Hodder
Tom Savini
Mike Perez – Never Sleep Again & More Brains
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Stacey Dixon – Model, actress and promoter of Full Moon Tattoo And Horror Convention
Ben Dixon – Tattoo artist and promoter of Full Moon Tattoo And Horror Convention
Ari Lehman and his band First Jason
Michael Graves – The Misfits
Eerie Von – Danzig / Samhain
Chelan Simmons – Tucker And Dale Vs Evil
John Dugan – Texas Chainsaw Massacre
William Katt – Greatest American Hero, House and Carrie
Diane Goldner – Feast
John Gulager – Feast Trilogy
Butch Patrick – The Munsters
Marilyn Burns – Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Brian O’Halloran – Clerks, Clerks 2, Chasing Amy
Howard Sheman – Day Of The Dead
Sonya Thompson – The Walking Dead
Madison Lintz – The Walking Dead
Kylie Szymanski – The Walking Dead
James Balsamo – I Spill Your Guts
Plus Monsters Among Us
Impressed yet? I know I am. This promises to be one of the best conventions of 2013!!!
What are you waiting for? Click here to head over to the Days Of The Dead Website and check it out even further.
I am lucky to have several very cool horror conventions that happen each year in my area. Full Moon, Fright Night and Scarefest are three of my very favorite shows to attend. The 2012 Scarefest was held the last weekend in September. This is one show that just keeps getting bigger and better each year. The thing that I like about Scarefest is that it is held in one very huge room. There is plenty of room to get around and you don’t have everyone bumping into each other at the peak times of the weekend. Full Moon went to this type of set up this year and I really wish that a lot of other conventions would look into this as well.
For the past two years Scarefest has invited the press to attend a special pre show event that features a lot of the celebrities walking down the red carpet and posing for pictures and answering any questions that we might have for them. Also this year several of the stars were hanging around outside the main door going into the show.
Dee Wallace
Michael Berryman and Dee Wallace
Arron Goodwin hamming it up for the cameras
Our friend Jeff Wickedbeard was on hand all weekend. Jeff dresses up as several characters from horror movies. He also makes the costumes himself and I have to say they look amazing.
As the time for the show to open drew near there was a ribbon cutting ceremony and since Jeff was dressed as Jason, it was only fitting that he cut the ribbon to start things off in a true horror manner!
Horror fans waiting to get into Scarefest
After the ribbon cutting ceremony the stars started to gather to walk down the red carpet.
Here are pictures of some of the celebrities attending
Victor Miller, the creator of Jason and Friday The 13th
Michael Berryman from The Hills Have Eyes and The Devils Rejects
Special effects master Cleve Hall and his daugther Constance. The are featured on the TV show The Monster Man. Cleve’s work has been featured in countless films. He is a true believer in making movie monsters without using CGI effects. I have to tip my hat to him for that.
Dee Wallace, Tyler Mane and Scout Taylor Compton sharing a laugh on the red carpet.
Doug Bradley and Nicholas Vince from Hellraiser
Doug Bradley
Dale Midkiff, Denise Crosby and Miko Hughes from Pet Sematary
Clive Barker and Malcolm McDowell were booked as guests but both had to cancel because of illnesses. There was a table set up where you could sign get well cards that would be sent to them after the show.
Paranormal ghost hunters The Booth Brothers are regulars at Scarefest and are very popular with the fans.
Scott, Joe, Susan and Paul from Ghost Hunters International
Susan Slaughter From Ghost Hunters International
Fan favorite Derek Mears
Oh my god!!! Where’s Carl????
Screen writer Charles Edward Pogue who’s credits include The Fly, Psycho 3 and Dragonheart
Candyman himself Tony Todd
J.D. Feigelson who wrote one of my favorite horror movies of all time Dark Night Of The Scarecrow
Arron Goodwin
I first met Tucky Williams at a convention in Chattanooga, Tn several years ago. Since then she has become one of my favorite actresses. Her hit web series Girl/Girl Scene has taken off like a rocket and is watched by people all over the globe. Girl/Girl Scene had a table at this years Scarefest and several of the actresses from the show were there to meet their fans.
Interviewing Lauren Virginia Albert
Interviewing Katie Stewart, she was such a sweet lady.
Interviewing Abisha Uhl who not only stars in Girl/Girl Scene but is also the lead singer of Sick Of Sarah
Me with Tucky Williams
Tucky signing some stuff for me
I was really looking forward to meeting Scout Taylor Compton
Miko Hughes
Denise Crosby
Dale Midkiff
The always sweet Dee Wallace
Beautiful Lisa Marie
I really enjoyed talking with Meg Foster. We talked about her role in the film Carney. He costars were Gary Busey and Jodie Foster.
Because of a weld accident Ashley Laurence is unable to make pictures because of the risk of the cameras flash going off. She told me it felt like a lighting bolt going threw her head. But she was nice enough to give me a picture of herself to use in our review. Thank you Ashley!
RJ Haddy and Beki Ingram from Season 2 of Face Off were at the show all weekend doing make up on fans.
Dee Wallace
Tyler Mane
Victor Miller
Chris Sarandon
Edward Douglas of the band Midnight Syndicate whose music was featured in the film The Dead Matter
Special effects artists Cleve and Constance Hall
There was a group of young girl dancers from The Scapa Dance Exchange School For The Creative And Preforming Arts who danced to the title track of Michael Jaskson’s Thriller album in honor of the lps 25th Anniversary. They were a very talented group or young ladies.
Actress Kayla Perkins
With Michael Graves from the band The Misfits
Circus Envy and Jerry Dewayne Lester
I think Scarefest attracts some of the best fan costumes of any show we attend. Check out these pictures of a few of the cool costumes.
A couple of fans of The Booth Brothers
Friend Frank with a couple of Predators
Jeff Wickedbeard as The Creeper
I always love checking out the vendors at horror conventions and Scarefest has some of the best.
A haunted mini putt putt golf course from Putt 2 U
A face only a mother could love
Ever laid down in a coffin? You could do it and get your picture made at Scarefest.
This lady was in The Hot Seat from The Scream Park
These pictures are just a small sample of what was going on at Scarefest this year. There were many other stars, vendors, paranormal investigators at this years show. This is one show you want to attend if you are into horror in anyway. It just keeps getting bigger and better each year.
I would like to say a huge thank you to Patti Starr and Chip Coffey for putting on a great horror convention. And also to Nic Brown for making us with Monsters From The Basement feel very welcome! Thanks guys and we will see you in Lexington Ky again next year!
I had the pleasure of attending the Full Moon Tattoo And Horror Convention in Chattanooga a few weeks ago. The Full Moon Conventions are organized by Ben and Stacey Dixon of Nashville. Ben is one of the best tattoo artists in Nashville and Stacey is an actress and model. I have been attending the Full Moon shows for many years and they never disappoint.
My favorite part of attending conventions is meeting the celebrities from my favorite horror movies. It means a lot to me to be able to tell the stars what an impact their work has had on my life. I really like it when a convention has a reunion of several cast members from one of my favorite films. Full Moon had several cast members of the Phantasm cast. A. Michael Baldwin, Reggie Bannister and Angus Scrimm was joined by director Don Coscarelli for what was in my opinion one of the best movie reunions you could ask for.
Me and Don Coscarelli
Me and Reggie Bannister from Phantasm
With A. Michael Baldwin
The Tall Man himself Mr. Angus Scrimm
Don Cascarelli
Me with Reggie and Michael
Fans meeting the Phantasm guys
One of the hottest tv shows on the air right now is The Walking Dead. There were several cast members of the show on hand to meet and talk to the fans. Many of these people we have met before and become friends with. It is always fun to hang out with these fine actors and actresses.
My girlfriend Christi could not make it to the show. She had found a bottle of Zombie Zin wine in North Carolina and thought it would be cool to get some of the walkers from the show to sign it. Here is a pic of Sonya Thompson signing the bottle.
Rodney Hall saying hello to Christi and holding her bottle of wine.
Our favorite zombie of all time and good friend Melissa Cowan AKA The Bicycle Girl was at the show on Saturday and put her signature on the bottle as well.
A Walking Dead fan talks to Melissa about the show, along with Melissa’s boyfriend Erin.
Me and Melissa before she headed back home.
Viviana Chavez who appeared in the first season of the show as Miranda was at the show on Sunday. I did not know that she was going to be at the show. It was a very nice surprise to be able to meet her.
My picture with Viviana
PJ Soles who starred in the first Halloween movie is a very special friend to Christi and me. She was at the show and did a very nice question and answer panel and talked about Halloween, Rock And Roll High School and some of her other films.
PJ during her Q & A.
Steve Dash who played Jason in Friday The 13th Part 2 was one of the guests at Full Moon. He is a very nice guy.
David Naughton was in the film American Werewolf In London. A lot of people don’t know it but David was the guy that sung about being a pepper in the Dr Pepper commercials in the 70′s and had a hit record with the theme song of the tv show Makin’ It that he also appeared in.
David signing a picture for Christi.
Two of our good friends from Georgia were on hand as well. Circus Envy and Jerry Dewayne Lester saying hello to Christi.
With Lace Grainger, one of Argos T. Fleam’s Kooks
There was a costume contest on Saturday Night so I thought I would stick around and check it out. The judges for the show were Daniel Griffith, Melissa Cowan and David Naughton.
Here are pictures of some of the costumes that were entered in the contest
The judges voting for their favorite costumes
And the winner is…..
I was hoping this girl would win. A very original idea with her Tippi Hedren costume from The Birds.
As with any horror convention there were a lot of very cool vendors selling their products at the show.
You could also get a tattoo at the show if you wanted to. Full Moon started out as a tattoo show and the horror side was added a few years later. Glad to see they kept the tattoo part.
Me and Stacey Dixon, one of the shows organizers.
As always I had a great time at the Full Moon Tattoo And Horror Convention in Chattanooga, Tn. They always have stuff going on all weekend and great celebrity guests. A big thanks to Ben and Stacey Dixon for putting on one of the best shows in the south. As long as they keep doing the show I will keep coming. Looking forward to their show in Nashville in 2013 at the Nashville Convention Center. Hope to see you all there.
Earlier this year we attended the first Blood On The Beach Convention. That show was so successful they are doing a second show called Blood At The Beach and this one promises to be another awesome time. With a guest list like this how can they miss?
Visit the Blood At The Beach Website by clicking here!
In 2011 we attended the first Horror Weekend in Gatlinburg Tennessee. The promoters have just announced that Horror Weekend will be returning to East Tennessee in 2013 and they promise that it will be bigger and better than ever.
Announcements concerning location, dates and guests will be announced in the coming weeks.
Click here to visit their Facebook page and give them a like!!!
Here are a few pictures from the first Horror Weekend!!
Me and Cerina Vincent
Christi and J. LaRose
Christi’s brother Michael with Ari Lehman
Mark Patton
Christi, me and Sonya Thompson
First Jason at the Horror Weekend Party at The Hard Rock
Michael Myers
I just finished updating the horror convention listing page here on the website. If you know of a convention or film fest that you would like to see listed on the page, send us an email at mainmonster@monstersfromthebasement.com . We would be more than happy to list it for you!!!
Our interview with Ashley will be posted very soon!!!!
The air is getting cool and chrisp outside, the days are getting shorter and the nights are getting longer. That means fall is on it’s way and that it is time for one of Monsters From The Basement’s favorite horror conventions, Scarefest. This show is held each and ever year in Lexington, Ky at the Lexington Convention Center. Each year this show features horror guests, paranormal guests, artists, vendors and movies of all kinds. Check out what horror stars they have lined up this year!!!
Plus all of these special paranormal guests as well!!
There will also be a lot of ways to keep yourself entertained throughout the weekend!! Magic, video games, escape artist and much more!!!
Plus this year Scarefest presents the very first Scarefest Concert!!!
Some of the best horror artists from across the country!!
Plus more vendors than you can shake a stick at!!!
Be sure not to miss this years Scarefest 2012!!! I promises to be the very best one ever!!!
Because of filming commitments Kane Hodder, Danielle Harris and Jon Bernthal will be unable to attend the show this year.
Because of illness Clive Barker will be unable to attend the show this year.
Click here for more information on Scarefest!!!
