Rue Morgue Festival of Fear - Blog and Pics

[roshiq]

WOW! WHAT AN AMAZING EXPERIENCE!

... I can only wish I'd be there sometime :o

[urgeok2]

lots more to come folks ... got tied up last night - i'll try to finish today

I'm curious to find out what happened to Despare....I thought you were going to meet up?


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[newb]

Originally Posted by ok0510

I'm curious to find out what happened to Despare....I thought you were going to meet up?

here we go:rolleyes:

zwoti's gonna be busy today

[urgeok2]

Saturday - continued .......


because I'm a dirty old man, I present to you : the Evil Cheerleaders.

i think its some kind of Suicide Girls competition.
I'll lighten this picture and repost in the near future - but i'm sure you get the point :




some of my memories are getting a little hazy already - i have to piece things together by the order the pictures were taken.
I do know that i went back to Cinema 1 and bought another 10 Tartan asia extreme titles.. and we booked into the hotel in the afternoon at sometime.

The next guest was Sean Austin. His line was pretty long but I wanted to get in there while my son was still with me. (re recently watched Rudy together and he loved Sam in the lord of the rings. He was also getting very tired of standing in lines - but we brought along his Nintendo DS to play with. Unfortunately he wouldn't stop playing it - even when we were at Sean's table - until Sean asked him about it and had him close it up so he could shake his hand.
Sean Austin was one of the coolest guys at the Con .. very friendly and chatty ..seemed to be enjoying himself. I had him sign the laserdisc of Rudy ..he asked me if i was going to get him to sign an 8-track as well...

Terrible picture of me but you can see that he was definately engaged and was suprised I knew a few of his older films that i mentioned as some of my favorites. Great sense of humor and extremely down to earth - i recommend meeting this guy if you ever get a chance.







when i first saw who turned out to be Miss Horrorfest I told her i'll be back with my son for a picture .. she told me that would be a good idea because her real hair would be on display - a big pink mohawk. When we saw her - she wasn't in a great mood - and this turned out to be the case for the rest of the weekend ..

i love this picture - you can see I'm regretting going there, she's miserable ... and my kid had had enough ... i call this one : Fun at the Con.

[Abominus]

Great pictures Urge. This being my first convention, the hazy overwhelmed confusion hit me hard. However, I got to chat with Tobe Hooper, Sid Haig, Deodato and Dourif.

Thanks for bringing it all back.

[urgeok2]

the one think my kid was enjoying was all the star wars stuff ... he really liked the people dressed up... so he was more than willing to be in those pics









When the guest list for the con was first announced - i wasnt that thrilled ... but then a couple of additions were made and i chenged my tune. One was Bruce MacDonald .. an amazing Canadian filmmaker. He is relatively unknown so his line was tiny (he was only there for a short whle on Saturday) and i didnt want to miss him for anything. Despite the short line - he spent about 10 - 15 minutes with everyone ! slowest moving line in the place. So i missed the Wes Craven Q&A - that i had priority seating for - but to me Bruce was a priority. Very nice guy. I told him that one of his films was a victim of the New Orleans flood. (it was his film HArd Core Logo that i sent to our HDC boy Austin - that was among the stuff stolen in the post flood looting)





My boy was more than happy to pose with these 2 ladies ... they were promoting lego batman and some tomb raider game. he didnt actually care that they were hot - everyone that posed with them got a lego catwoman keyring ..which he wanted.

[urgeok2]

The other thing i missed in the Bruce MacDonald lineup was the Black Christmas panel. (i was bummed i missed it)
John Saxon, Art Hindle, Lynne Griffin, as well as a couple of others were there.
One good thing is that they came back to the Anchor Bay booth to do a free signing ...long ass line but i had to be there as i wanted Black Christmas signed as well as Enter the Dragon .. one for me and one for my son's Tai Kwan Do teacher. It was nice to get a chance to meet these people as well..



went back to the regular signing area - by now it's dinner time - to find that Brad Dourif's line was very short. Actually - around 5:30 - 6:00 most signing lines are almost empty. So I popped in to get my copy of One Flew Over the Cucoo's nNest signed. I also wanted Exorcist III signed but i would have to hit a bank machine first. The ATMs were empty so i had to walk all the way back to the north end of the complex. Let me explain :

work my way out of the con main floor, across a lobby full of people dressed up like Narurto and Jedis, up an escalator, across a huge lobby, up another escalator, across a lobby, up an escalator, then another escalator - then across a long walk way, down an escalator, then another escalator ...then i had to get money and go all the way back.

I had to do this in 1/2 because the Wes Craven meet and greet was in a bar across the road about 35 minutes from then.

I arrived back and walked right back to Brad Dourif to get Ex III signed - which we chatted about for a bit .. then got the picture taken. (he doesnt smile in any of his pictures by the way)





I had made better time than i thought so i scooted over to see Lloyd Kaufman (Troma) to get Toxic Avenger signed. (he signs for free so i bought Zombigeddon) Before getting my pic - i felt i'd better get a picture of his assistant playing with the lego batman girls.





Lloyd is a very goofy guy who makes wise cracks non-stop .. probably a blast to hang out with.

[newb]

You got some great pics there. How much do you figured you spent on pics alone?

[urgeok2]

Ok - it's now Saturday night - close to 7:00 and i have to make my way back for the Wes Craven event.

I stopped by the Suicide Girl booth and bought a couple of books and got a shot of the girls..




I also stopped off to see Jeremy Bullock - the man who played Boba-Fett ... another super nice guy. Class act too. He was selling a book "flying Solo' that i wanted ... hardcover.. in a box sleve .. signed and numbered - out of 2000.
if you bought the book you got a signed picture too so i had him sign one for my son and told him i'd be back in the morning with my boy who really wanted a picture with him (which was completely true)


I think at this point i got Shawnee Smith to sign my copy of Summer School. (Fuck Saw) I dont know why i bothered really. too expensive - she was miserable. I had nothing to say at all..

then off i went ...allll the way back where i had just came from .. and across the street to a bar where Wec Craven would be meeting up with the folks who paid for the special event ticket.

Not i have to say that earlier - someone i wont mention was saying how much of an asshole Wes Craven was - rude to his fans, etc. (at the time i was thinking - great - i wasted a lot of money for this ?)

mind you earlier that day i did get into his signing line to get a movie signed for that bloke in the UK and Hills Have Eyes for me. (i would be getting something else signed for free at the meet & greet later) He seemed like a pleasant enough guy there. Also i had my pic done at the photo op - and he seemed decent there as well ...

So i get to the meet and greet and sit at a table with a fellow - right beside the small reserved table where Wes would be meeting his fans. Very few people there.. they couldnt have sold more than 20 of these tickets..

I had a great chat with the fellow i shared a table with. I was tired and rambling - so the poor guy was probably losing his mind - but i really enjoyed myself - it was the 1st time in 2 days i relaxed - even had a couple of guiness (it was an irish pub after all)

when it was my turn to sit with Wes (they pair us up in 2's which as a bit fucked) i found that he was a very nice guy - easy to talk to and we got to chat quite a bit ... (he kept going on even after the rue morgue guys told us our time was up ... so he was in no hurry to move us along personally. very laid back and chatted like a regular guy.

after my companion and i keep chatting until everyone else had gone .. very nice evening - i really enjoyed myself.

My wife and sone had gone out for dinner in the meantime - brought me something back to the hotel. I ate, chatted with the family, checked out some pictures i took - then fell asleep exhausted about 10:00.

A guy i know paged my fucking phone at 11:30 ... woke my wife and i up - and i couldnt get back to sleep so i read Jeremy's book until 2:00am.


not a good sleep that night.