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Posted by Bakontributor Mon Apr 14, 2008 14:42:12 PDT
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Things that make you go SCREAM!
Bakotopia is headed to Fangoria magazine's annual Weekend of Horrors in Los Angeles, April 25-27, 2008! Yikes!

By Greg Goodsell, Bakotopia.com contributor

Halloween literally comes six months early at the end of April as Fangoria magazine - America’s premier horror film publication - holds its annual Weekend of Horrors at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

All things macabre crowd dealer rooms and the three-day weekend features a veritable midnight mass of horror-related celebrities live on stage. Speakers well known far beyond the Gothic set are scheduled to appear.

Novelist Clive Barker, known chiefly for the Hellraiser series, will be sharing all the details of his blood-drenched coming projects. Director George Romero, who started the cinematic obsession with all things undead with his seminal 1968 classic “Night of the Living Dead” will also be there - with many of the original actors in attendance for a 40-year reunion! Actors Sid Haig (Captain Spaulding from Rob Zombie’s “House of a 1,000 Corpses”) and Angus Scrimm (Tall Man from the “Phantasm” series) will also be on hand to greet admirers.

There will be many presentations, sneak peeks of upcoming genre flicks, autograph signings and countless “Hollyweird” happenings the three days of the convention.

What attracts many to the event are unbridled shopping opportunities offered by outré dealers who offer the ideal items for “wreck” rooms: coffin-shaped tables, vampire fangs, resin model kits, monster masks, paintings, DVDs, videos, T-shirts, capes, kitsch and more!

For some, the annual convention serves the same function as a typical getaway to Las Vegas - put your brain on hold and spend, spend, spend.
Rising above mere cult status, the horror genre has increased in popularity over the past several years.

Some pointy-headed pop psychologists attribute its rise to a gut reaction to an increasingly violent modern world, with such bowel-churning films as “Saw” and “Hostel” packing in junior high school students.

Hardly! Remember when Romero’s original “Night of the Living Dead,” now a well-loved film that ranks up there with Frank Capra’s “It’s a Wonderful Life,” was cited as an example of societal decay?

Unpleasant dreams, kiddos.

On the web: www.fangoria.com

Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors
April 25 through 27, 2008
Los Angeles Convention Center
201 S. Figueroa St., LA, CA       

Article also printed in Bakotopia issue #26 4/17/08
 

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