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Audio interviews with “Sleepaway Camp” stars Jonathan Tiersten and Felissa Rose posted

Who can forget the very strange ending to the 80′s horror flick “Sleepaway Camp”.  That final scene just blew me away.  Now, 30 years later the film has the same impact on many other horror fans old and new.  Two of the stars of that film, Felissa Rose and Jonathan Tiersten, were guests at the recent Blood On The Beach Horror convention.  Both of them agreed to talk with me for an interview for Monsters From The Basement.  We talked about their memeories of the filming of the moview and what they are doing these days.  They are both super people as you will hear in the interview. I hope you dig the interview as much as I did interviewing them.  Let’s give a big Monsters From The Basement welcome to Felissa and Jonathan!!!

Click here to listen to Felissa and Jonathan’s interviews 

Blood On The Beach Photos And Recap

Two weeks ago Monsters From The Basement had the pleasure of attending the first Blood On The Beach Convention in Virginia Beach, Va.  If you wanted to go to this show and didn’t you missed a good one.  I am always hoping that when a new convention pops up that they will do good and this one was spot on.  They had a over 40 guests and it was very successful in my opinion.

The fans started to line up for tickets on Friday afternoon even before the show started.  That is a very good sign for what to expect for the weekend.  The only complaint that I had about the show was the fact that the room that the celebrities were in got very crowded and it was hard to get around.  They took care of some of this on Sunday when they moved The Boondock Saints and Danielle Harris into a seperate room.  But all in all I think the promoters hit a home run with this first time show.

Like I said earlier there were over 40 guests at this show.  They offered a little bit of something for everyone.  It was impossible to get something from every star that was there but we managed to meet a lot of them.

There was a Boondock Saints reunion that featured Norman Reedus, Sean Patrick Flannery and David Della Rocco.  They seemed to be the most popular guest all weekend.  At one point on Saturday their line went out the door, down the hall and outside around the swimming pool area.  The line moved quickly but if you wanted to meet them you had about an hour wait.  This usually seperates the true fans from the casual ones.

Christi’s nephew Dakota is a huge fan of the Boondock Saints and really enjoyed meeting the guys.

I had met Sean before but had never gotten a good picture of him so I was glad I got the chance to get one at Blood On The Beach

This was my first time meeting David And I took The opportunity to make my Boondock Saints collection complete with his autograph

Chisti’s oldest girl is a huge fan of Norman’s and stood in line with Christi to meet her hero

When we went out Sunday morning Diane wanted to get the three guys something from Starbucks to wake them up.  We brought them back coffee.

We asked Sean if he enjoyed his coffee and he replied with “This? Naaaaaa” as he held up the empty cup

 One of my favorite movies from the 80′s was Sleepaway Camp.  Two of the stars of that movie, Felissa Rose and Jonathan Tierten were on hand as well. I interviewed both of them for this website and will be posting the interview soon

Jonathan was having so much fun he took his shirt off!!!

Usually at a convention when they have a film reunion they might have two or three cast members, but for The Lost Boys reunion they had 5 cast members in attendence.  Edward Herrmann, Brooke McCarter, Billy Wirth, Jamison Newlander along with G Tom Mac who sang the song in the film Cry Little Sister.

 Since I started this website I have had the honor of interviewing some of my favorite horror stars.  One of my all time favorite interviews was with Tiffany Shepis.  She was a guest at Blood On The Beach.  Christi was meeting her for the first time and agreed with me that she is one of the nicest actresses you will ever meet.

 I was really looking forward to meet Cleve Hall and his ex-wife who appear in the SyFy Networks show “Monster Man”.  Cleve does special effects and makeup for movies the old fashioned way, by hand.  None of that CGI crap for him.  It was a real honor to meet these two!

 Other than The Boondock Saints we were really excited about meeting Danielle Harris from the Halloween movies.  She was very sweet and nice.  I had met he several times before but it was Christi’s first time meeting her.  We got her to sign out 30 Years Of Terror posters.

Jennifer Blanc and Michael Biehn were on hand showing their film “The Victim”

If you haven’t seen “The Victim” yet you need to. It is a great film!!

Kristin Baker from the second “Friday The 13th” movie was also a guest at the show.

What horror convention would be complete without a zombie from a George Romero film?  Leonard Lies from “Dawn Of The Dead” was busy hitting people in the head with his machete!!

Our favorite horror artist Joel Robinson was one of the vendors at the show.

Check Joel out at Artpusher.net

Another very popular guest was Michael Rooker.  He has been in many movies over the years but the role he is riding high on now is Merle in The Walking Dead.  We had several items to get signed by him at the show.  He is a very cool guy with a great sense of humor!

It was great meeting Barbra Nedeljakova from the “Hostel” movies and “Strippers And Werewolfs”

Puddle Of Mud guitarist Paul Phillips was making his first convention Blood On The Beach.  He stopped and posed for pictures with us Saturday night.

I always like to support indie film makers.  I met Matt Farnsworth and Diane Foster at the show.  Matt is the director and Diane stars in “The Orphan Killer”.  I got a copy of the movie at the show and loved it. I interviewed both of them for Monsters From The Basement and the interview will be posted very soon.  Check out this awesome flick!!

I had met Debbie Rochon at the Full Moon Horror Convention several years ago and since I started the website I always wanted to interview her.  That wish came true at Blood On The Beach.  Debbie was amazing and super nice.  She is one of those stars that never disapoints.  Look for her interview soon as well!!

Alice Cooper tribute band Alice Creeper played at the VIP party on Friday night.  We didn’t attend the party but heard that they were very good.

Horror host Karlos Borloff was at the show on Saturday

Now you know that the stars are only part of the fun at a horror convention.  Here are some of the cool fans who came in costume to the show.

As you can see Blood On The Beach had something for everyone into horror.  For a first time convention I think the folks at Blood On The Beach did an awesome job.  I have to tip my hat to them and hope they do it again next year.  They had a guest list to die for.  The stars that we have here in this review is just a sample of the guests.  I only wish that we could have got pictures and autographs from everyone.

A big thank you goes out to the staff of Blood On The Beach and to convention organizer Al Keisel aka Dark Shutter for making Monsters From The Basement feel right at home in Virginia Beach.  We will be back next year and I hope to see you there as well!!!

Full Moon Tattoo And Horror Convention – Nashville Tn – Recap

The very first horror convention that I ever attended was the Full Moon Tattoo And Horror Convention that is held each spring in Nashville Tn. I look forward to this show each and every year. My friends Ben and Stacey Dixon are the organizers of the show and they do a top notch job each and ever year.

One thing I really liked about this years Full Moon Convention was the fact that this year it was held at the Nashville Convention Center in the heart of downtown Nashville.  The convention was in on huge area.  I have to say I really like it when conventions are like this and not in several different rooms at a hotel.  I think a lot of conventions should look at this and move toward this type of setup!

The Celebrities at Full Moon

There were several stars that we were really looking forward to meeting.

The first one was Norman Reedus from “The Walking Dead” and “The Boondock Saints”.  He was very nice and very personable.  I really enjoyed meeting him.

One of the most popular cable tv show has to be HBO’s “True Blood”.  Kristin Bauer stars as Pam in that show and she was another one of the guests that we were really wanting to meet.  She is just as pretty as she is on the show and one of the most popular guests at the show.

Another really popular star that was at Full Moon was Kane Hodder.  He was Jason in several of the “Friday The 13th” films.  Kane is a regular guest at Full Moon.

Another actor who appeared as Jason was Richard Brooker.  He appeared in the third installment of the “Friday The 13th” series.  He is the first Jason that wore the famous hockey mask in Part 3.  He had some very cool Jason masks for sale at the show.

There were three Jasons total at the show.  Ted White was the third.

 Not only were there stars from “Friday The 13th”,  there were also stars from the “Halloween” movies as well.

Brad Loree who played Michael Myers in “Halloween Resurrection” make his first visit to The Music City for the Full Moon Show.

Like Brad, George Wilbur is also a stunt man who has played Michael Meyers in a Halloween film.  George appeared in “The Return Of Michael Myers”

Leslie Easterbrook has been in countless movies over the years.  One of her recent roles was that of Mother Firefly in Rob Zombie’s “Devils Rejects”.  I was really excited about meeting her and conducted an interview with her for this website that will be posted very soon.

In addition to Norman Reedus, there were several other memebers of ”The Walking Dead” cast on hand.  One was Madison Lintz who had one of the most heartbreaking scenes in the shows second season as Sophie.

Madison’s mom Kelly Lintz is an actress as well and appears in the recent movie “The Hunger Games”

Rodney Hall and Mike Koske who were featured on “The Walking Dead” as Walkers were also guests at Full Moon

One of the first horror movies that really got to me was “I Spit On Your Grave”.  Camille Keaton was the female lead in the film.  If you have seen it you will know what part got to me.

Robert Carradine was at the show too.  One of the most popular movies he was in has to be “Revenge Of The Nerds”.  He was at Fright Night last year but I didn’t get a chance to meet him so I was glad he was at Full Moon

 Here is a picture of our friends Josh and Angie with Tony Todd.  Tony has been acting for many years an was in the movie “Night Of The Living Dead”

 After Hours

When the convention shuts down, the parties begin.  Full Moon offered a huge amount of after hours enterainment for people

There was a burlesque show at the venue that attracted a big crowd

We ran into Frank Fritz from the tv show “American Pickers” walking around the show on Saturday night.  We chased him down and got a couple pictures with him.

Generation Landslide

 One thing that I was really looking forward to seeing was Ben Dixon’s band from the 80′s Generation Landslide play at BB King’s Blues Club. I never got to see them back in the day. We headed down to the club and watched as Ben and company rocked the house.

Costumes

I have said it before but I love seeing people dress up at horror conventions as their favorite horror character or one that they made up themselfs.  Here are a few pics of the fans at Full Moon..

Tattoos

There were close to 100 tattoo artists at the show who were all busy doing tattoos all weekend.  Here are a couple pictures of my friend Kevin getting a Vincent Price tattoo.

As you can tell by the picture below Christi and her ”friend” were having a great time at Full Moon

 This was the 11th year of the Full Moon Tattoo and Horror Convention and from the looks of things this show shows no sign of slowing down.  Top notch guests along with a great venue and great fans all add up to a fun weekend.  I will be attending the Full Moon Show as long as they put it on.  It is good having a convention in my back yard that I don’t have to travel a long distance to.

I would like to say a big thanks to Ben and Stacey Dixon for putting on one of the south’s best horror conventions.  Looking forward to next years show!!!

Also a big thanks to Christi for taking great pictures.

We will see you soon!!!

Mad Monster Party Review And Recap!!!

Two weeks ago Monsters From The Basement attended North Carolina’s very first horror convention, The Mad Monster Party.  The show was organized by Joe Moe.  Joe was a member of the Bat Pack that took care of Forrest J Ackerman (Famous Monsters Magazine) the last years of his life.

Christi lives about an hour from Charlotte so we decided to drive home each night after the convention instead of staying at the hotel.  The hotel was very nice and offered plenty of room for the show.  The Blake Hotel had a kind of a Outlook Hotel (The Shining) feel to it on the inside.

 The only complaint I had about the whole weekend was that the people giving out the passes to the convention on the first night were a bit unorganized and confused about what they were doing.  We stood in line for 45 minutes to get our passes at 5 pm only to find out that they were only giving out the VIP passes at 5 and we couldn’t get ours until 6pm when the doors to the show opened.  But we didn’t let that one little glitch spoil our fun.  If every convention went as smoothly as Mad Monster did I would be very happy.

Patty Mullen

At each convention there is always someone that you are really looking forward to meeting.  This show offered a wide range of stars to meet and talk to,  many were making their first convention appearence. 

Patty Mullen was the one star that I was really looking forward to meeting at this show.  Patty was in one of my very favorite horror/comedy films “Frankenhooker”.  If you have never seen the film it is about a guy who’s girlfriend gets chopped up by a lawn mower and he saves her head and gets body parts from hookers to put her back together.  Patty was so very sweet to her fans.  I think she is one of the nicest coolest people I have ever met.

Patty Mullen signing some posters and pictures.

 It seemed liked she really enjoyed meeting her fans at Mad Monster Party.  She even left our friend James a message on his voice mail.

 The coolest part of the weekend was when Patty got into her Frankenhooker makeup and posed for pictures with her fans.  This was a dream come true for me.

Patty agreed to talk with me for an interview with Monsters From The Basement.  She was very kind and very funny.  Could have sit and talked to her for hours.

 Craig Sheffer and Anne Bobby

Christi was really looking forward to meeting Craig Sheffer who was in one of her favorite films “Fire With Fire”.  He also was in Clive Barker’s “Nightbreed” along with Anne Bobby.  This was both of their first convention appearences as well.

Anne was really excited that I had brought a “Nightbreed” poster for them to sign.  She said she had the same poster hanging in her home.

 I also did an interview with Anne for Monsters From The Basement as well

 The Rest Of The Guests….

Mad Monster offered a little bit of something for everyone attending the show

Brad Dourif has been countless films including “One Flew Over The Cokooos Nest” and Rob Zombie’s “Halloween” remakes.

 Christi and I both are huge fans of the movie “Fright Night”.  Two stars from that film were at Mad Monster, Chris Sarandon and Stephen Geoffreys.  We had watched the movie the night before just to prime ourselfs for meeting these two crowd favorites.

Chris was also the voice of Jack Skellington in “The Nightmare Before Christmas”

One of my very favorite actresses was also a guest at Mad Monster Party, Linda Blair.  This was the 5th time that I had met her.  She is such a sweetheart!

It was very cool to meet Darth Vader himself David Prowse

Rutger Hauer was on hand meeting fans.  All the money he made went toward his “Starfish” charity which helps in AIDS research.

 William Katt was in “Carrie” and “House” as well as the very popular TV series “The Greatest American Hero”

 Chandler Riggs who plays Carl on “The Walking Dead” was at the show too.

 Rodney Hall, zombie from “The Walking Dead”

Addy Miller was the first zombie that Rick Grimes shot on “The Walking Dead”.  She is such a sweet girl.

Addy took part in a makeup demonstration and was made up to look like she had aged many years!!

We attended the tribute to the late great Forrest J Ackermn on Saturday

 I really loved this tribute to Forry.  Hope they do it again next year.

 I am sure Joe Turkel felt right at home at The Blake Hotel.  It reminded me of the Outlook Hotel in “The Shining”

No horror convention would seem complete without Bill Mosley from “Devils Rejects” and “Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2″

One of the nicest horror stars you will ever meet is Dee Wallace from “The Fog” and “Cujo”

 Being a huge music fan as well as a horror fan I love it when they book rock stars at the horror conventions.  Marky Ramone was at Mad Monster Party and it was awesome meeting him for the very first time.

 William Katt’s costar in the film “House” was a guest too.  Richard Moll who also starred in the tv show “Night Court” as Bull!

“The Creature From The Black Lagoon” is my favorite classic Universal monster.  Meet Rico Browning who wore the Creature suit was quite an honor.

We had  no idea that James Hong from “Big Trouble In Little China” was the guy on “Seinfield” in the “Seinfield – 4″ episode!

I had never met Camden Toy before but Christi.  I found him to be a very nice guy with a cool sense of humor as you can tell in these pictures.

We have made friends with a few celebs along the way.  Nivek Ogre from Skinny Puppy and PJ Soles are two of those.

It was also an honor to finally meet Angus Scrimm.  I have been a ”Phantasm” fan for years.

Christine

One thing that really impressed me was the restored Christine car from Stephen Kings “Christine” movie

We had a great time at The Mad Monster Party.  It will be on the list of my favorite convention experiences so far this year.  The guests were all very nice and kind.  The staff were also very nice.  Lots of time conventions don’t live up to all the hype that is promised.  I know that is hard to do sometimes but Joe Moe and crew sure pulled it off with this one.  Mad Monster Party is one show we will retun to for sure.

Thanks Joe for bringing horror to North Carolinia.  See you next year!!!

Audio interview with Sean Whalen posted…..

Sean Whalen’s third film was Wes Cravens “People Under The Stairs”.  Since then he has appeared in many other films and countless tv shows as well.  I had been friends with Sean on Facebook and when I found out that he was going to be a guest at the recent Days Of The Dead Atlanta Convention I contacted him and asked if we could do an interview for this website.  On Sunday morning I was able to sit down with him and talk about acting, Wes Craven and many other things.  He is a super nice guy and if he attends a convention you are going to be sure to go up and say hello to him.  I hope you enjoy my interview with Sean Whalen!!!

Click here to listen to my interview with Sean Whalen

Days Of The Dead Atlanta – Review and Recap

This past weekend we attended the second Days Of The Dead Convention in Atlanta.  My girlfriend Christi and her two daughters and nephew piled into the car early Friday morning for the drive to Atlanta to take part in this awesome event.

Atlanta is a huge city but thanks to our trusty GPS we got to the hotel with no trouble at all!!

The Wyndham hotel was located in the Peachtree City area of Atlanta and was a very nice hotel with lots of room for the convention.

When we arrived at the hotel we ran into Circus Envy who was with Amelia Kincaid.  She remembered me from an interview we had done in Kentucky in 2011.  We also ran into Nivek Ogre from the band Skinny Puppy and the film Repo.  This gave Christi’s daughter Erin a thrill because she is a huge fan of his.

After checking into the hotel and getting settled down it was time for the convention to start. We went down stairs to pick up our passes and let the fun begin.

We had planned out what stars we wanted to see first and what autographs we wanted to get.

The Walking Dead

I have been lucky enough to interview several of the zombie cast members of The Walking Dead over the past two years and from that we have became friends with a lot of them.  I am always happy to see any of them at a show and they are always very friendly to us.  There were several of them at the Days Of The Dead show.

All of the people that I have met from The Walking Dead have been super nice and I consider each and everyone of them friends.  If you have a chance to meet any of them you will have a wonderful experience.  I always enjoy The Walking Dead TV show.  You can tell from talking to these men and women that a lot of care and love goes into shooting each and every episode that airs.  I have not heard a single negative remark from any of them about their experience on the show.

We spotted zombie Sonya Thompson giving Gary Busey a back rub.

Charles Casey from the Walking Dead was also at the convention.

The Other Celebrities

The main headlining guest for Altanta’s Days Of The Dead was Gary Busey.  He seemed to be in a great mood at the show on Friday night and was cutting up a lot.

One person that I was looking forward to meeting at the show for the first time was Dey Young who co-starred with PJ Soles in “Rock And Roll High School.  She was such and nice lady.  I found out that she is also a sculptor and has a website where you can get her stuff.

Dey Youngs website 

PJ Soles is always a delight as well.  I gave her one of our Monsters From The Basement t-shirts and she wore it on Sunday.

Nick Princlpe who was in the films “Laird To Rest Parts 1 and 2″ was on hand to meet his fans.

 Brian Steele, who was in “Hell Boy Parts 1 and 2″, ‘Predators”, “Underworld” among other films was a crowd favorite.

Another very popular guest was Derek Mears.  Derek has appeared in many movies including the “Friday The 13th” remake, “The Hills Have Eyes” and “Predators” along with Brian Steele.

When I first saw Tyler Mane as Michael Myers in Rob Zombie’s Halloween I wondered just how big this guy really was.  His character was so huge.  After getting to stand next to him I discovered that he didn’t have to wear and thing to make him look bigger in the film.  What you see on the screen is all Tyler!!!

If you know me and my tastes in movies you know that I am a huge fan of “Return Of The Living Dead”.  It is always great to get to see some of the stars of this film.  For the Atlanta show Days Of The Dead had as a returning guest Linnea Quigley.  She is always very nice as well.

Another film that I enjoy that Linnea appeared in was “Night Of The Demons” along with Amelia Kinkade.  As I mentioned before we saw her in the lobby when we first got to the hotel.  She remembered me from our interview in 2010 at the Kentucky Scarefest.

Horror Icon Bill Mosley was also a guest at Days Of The Dead.  He is the complete opposite of Otis, the character he plays in “House Of 1000 Copses” and “The Devil’s Rejects”.  He posed for pictures with our whole group.

 After the weekend was over, I asked Christi who her favorite person she met over the weekend was and she said Nivek Ogre from Skinny Puppy and “Repo”.  He spent a lot of time talking with us and paid special attention to Erin who is a really big fan of his.  We came down to the lobby on Saturday night to find Erin, Diane and Dakota standing in a group with him talking.  I don’t think Erin will ever forget his kindness and attention he gave her.

Another guy that I was really looking forward to meeting for the first time was Laurence Harvey from “The Human Centipede Part 2″.  I thought that Mr Harvey played his character in the film to a tee.  He really gave the movie a creepy feeling.

Some of my favorite movies were well repersented at Days Of The Dead.  Barbra Crampton from “The Reanimator” was on hand as well.  She is still just as pretty as she was in the film.

 I had a “Night Of The Living Dead” poster that was signed by George Romero that I had been wanting to get signed by other people involved with the film.  I got two more signatures on it when John Russo and George Kosana signed it at Days Of The Dead.

Taffe O’Connell was another guest that I was looking forward to meeting for the first time at Days.  She was a very sweet woman.

Sean Whalen from “People Under The Stairs” and Rob Zombie’s “Halloween 2″ was at Days Of The Dead.  We are friends on Face Book and it was nice to meet him in person.

 Dakota enjoyed meeting Alex Vincent from “Child’s Play” and Ari Lehman from the first “Friday The 13th”

One of the top grossing films from 2010 was “Paranormal Activity 3″ and one of the stars of that movie Micha Sloat was another of the guests at Days Of The Dead

Christi and I both got pictures with him

Local Atlanta horror personality Circus Envy was on hand as the events MC.  Christi and I have met him several times and he is a great guy to know.  I interviewed him in Nashville last year and he has to be one of the scariest clowns ever!!!

Along with Circus Envy was Jerry Dewayne Lester.  Jerry dresses up as Vincent Price at conventions

And here he is as Bill from True Blood

One of our favorite guests from the Gatlinburg Horror Weekend was Mark Patton from “Nightmare On Elm St 2″ and “Come Back To The Five And Dime Jimmy Dean….”  He is always a joy to talk with.

Elvira impersonitor Patterson Lundquist from “The Search For The Next Elvira”

As with all conventions it is hard to get around to meet everyone.  Also on hand at Days Of The Dead in Atlanta were Sid Haig, Roddy Piper, Ellisa Dowling, Jeff Burr, Charles Casey, The Haunted Hotties and Chip Coffey.

Monsters Among Us

One of my favorite things to do at any horror convention is to find a nice place to sit in the hotel lobby and just watch the costumes some of the fans come dressed as.  At Days Of The Dead Atlanta they had a room dedicated to the fans who take this to the next level.  These guys work really hard to get their costumes just like they were in the movies.  Monsters Among Us featured The Nightmare Man, Princess Diva Of The Dead, Jeff Wickedbeard and Angela, and Larry Lutze.  These guys and several other take the term “cos-play” very seriously.  Check out some of these awesome costumes.

I have been friends with The Nightmare man for a couple years now.  His main character is Freddy Kruger, but he also dresses as Dexter, Hannibal Lecter.  Him and his fiance Princess Diva Of The Dead show up at most of the shows in the Indy and Ohio area.  Check out some pictures of these two.

I have seen Larry Lutze at several conventions dressed in his Werewolf costume.  He also does a pretty cool Predator as well.

 Jeff Wickedbeard has the look of Jason down pat. Him and his girlfriend Angela really knocked me out with their Monsters Among Us costumes.

The Scream Queen Panel

It is hard at any good size horror convention to squeeze all that you want to do at the show.  One panel that I really enjoyed was the Scream Queen Panel at the first Days Of The Dead last year.  When I saw that they were doing it again in Atlanta I told Christi that we needed to go see it this time.  A full room of fans watched as Barbara Crampton, Amelia Kinkade, PJ Soles, Linnea Quigley and Mark Patton answered questions about their films and careers.

If you attended the panel you know how much fun it was.  I really love hearing the stories that the stars of some of my favorite films have to tell about the making of those movies.

Here is a video of the Scream Queen Panel from the guys at With0ut Your Head Radio.  If you go to the 18 minute mark you can hear PJ Soles talk about me and Christi meeting for the first time in her line at the Gatlinburg Horror Weekend.

The Vendors

When you attend a horror you are offered an excellent oppertunity to see all kinds of different vendors selling everything from action figures to posters to masks and just about everything in between.  Here are some pictures of some of the cool stuff that was for sale at the show.

This was just a small sample of what you could get!!

Interviews

My favorite part about running this website is getting to interview some of the celebrities that are guests at the conventions.  Days Of The Dead offered me another opperunity to do that. Check out who you will be hearing soon here on Monsters From The Basement!!

I also talked with Laurence Harvey and Princess Diva Of The Dead.  Thanks to all the celebrities that took some time out of their Sunday morning to chat with me.

The Fans

Like I mentioned before I love to see the fans show up to conventions in costumes.  It makes for great people watching.  Look at some of the creatures that were roaming the halls until the early morning light all through out the weekend.

A Few Last Words About Days Of The Dead Atlanta

As you can see, Days Of The Dead Atlanta was a huge success.  We had a great time the entire weekend.  I can always measure how much fun I had at a horror convention by how tired I am on Monday.  Well I can honestly say that we were all totally exhusted.  I would like to say a huge thank you to Adolfo Dorta for putting on a first class show and all that he did for us at Monsters From The Basement.  I know that we will be attending more Days Of The Dead shows.  Another thank you goes out to the celebrity guests who talked to us and took time to do interviews for the website.  Thanks to all the fans that attended the show and helped to make it a success!  And last but not least a big thank you to Christi for helping with pictures and helping me keep with everything. You are the best babe!!

It was also great seeing so many of our friends at the show.  Jason and Jennifer, Bill and Barbara, Kevin, Jabb Pictures, Linnea, PJ, Bill, J Larose, Savana and her mom, Melissa, Erin, Ben and Stacey, Rodney, Frank, Jeff and Angela, Chris and Mara and all the other friends of Monsters From The Basement!!!

We really didn’t find out for sure why the fire alarm went off in the hotel at 2am Saturday morning but we could have done without that!!

Hope to see you at the next Days Of The Dead Horror Convention!!!

Blood On The Beach in Virginia Beach, VA April 20-22, 2012

Another first time convention is taking place in Virginia Beach, VA this April 20 – 22 at the Holiday Inn Virginia Beach.  A very impressive guest line up so far.  Make your plans now to attend this show.  It promises to be an awesome show!!! Check out the guest list below.

 

 

The guys from Muscle Wolf Productions

Click here to go to the Blood On The Beach Website 

Audio interview with Savana Wehunt from The Walking Dead posted

Savana Wehunt is a twenty year old actress from Georgia.  She originally wanted to be a vet but after being in several children’s theater productions she was bit by the acting bug.  This past year she was featured in The Walking Dead web series and TV series as well.  As a walker she appeared in two of this seasons most talked about episodes….the attack on Otis at the high school and appearance of Sophie before she was shot.  I ran into Savana at Con Nooga a couple of weeks ago and asked if I could interview her for Monsters From The Basement.  She is bound to go far in the acting world. Listen as I chat with Savana Wehunt!!

Click here to listen to my interview with Savana Wehunt 

Audio interview with Ben Dixon posted……

The very first horror convention I attended was the Full Moon Tattoo And Horror Convention held each year in Nashville, Tennessee.  2012 will be the shows 11th year and organizers Ben & Stacey Dixon have a lot of changes in store this year that will make it bigger and better than ever.  They are in the process of expanding the tattooo shops that they have as well.  I sit down and spoke with Ben about this years show and what else they have planned for this coming year.  Join me down in The Basement and I talk to Ben Dixon.

Click here to listen to my interview with Ben Dixon

R.I.P. Bill Hinzman 1936 – 2012

The world of horror lost an icon this past weekend with the passing of Bill Hinzman.  Bill was the very first zombie to be shown in George Romero’s ground breaking film Night Of The Living Dead.  Known as “The Graveyard Zombie” Bill’s scene in the film set the pace for the rest of the movie.

Other films Bill appeared in were The Crazies, There’s Always Vanilla and Season Of The Witch.  He also directed the film Flesh Eaters.

RIP Graveyard Zombie!!!