RUE MORGUE FESTIVAL OF FEAR - NATIONAL HORROR EXPO August 2009
August 21st 2009 04:18
Every year around this time I wish I was a Toronto native. Unfortunately I live on the other side of the world, and flying to Canada for three days is simply out of the question. Rue Morgue, the essential horror in art and culture publication hosts a national expo every year called Festival of Fear. For three days – Friday August 28 to Sunday 30th - horrorphiles can indulge in all manner of the weird and grotesque, the sublimely frightening to the exquisitely gruesome.
I’m so envious of what’s going to be projected, exhibited, discussed and displayed; including screenings of Jacques Tourneur’s original Cat People (1942) and I Walked With a Zombie (1943), special screening of Mario Bava’s Black Sunday (1960) with Barbara Steele introducing, Q&As with legendary makeup whiz Tom Savini, guerrilla filmmaker Roger Corman, and splatstick superstar Bruce Campbell, a fact and fiction panel on vampires, a workshop on how to make a short horror film, and not forgetting the official festival party "Dance of the Deadites", and an appearance from wurgin blood lover Udo Kier!
One day I’ll get myself to Festival of Fear. For now I have to suffice with Rue Morgue’s great artwork. For those who want a taste of what’s on the menu, it’s a smorgasbord of nightmare delights. Check out the complete nerve-shredding schedule of events here (there is also a link to off-site ticket purchase, for the lucky bastards who live near by).
Okay, after giving it some serious thought: if you’re a decent enough writer and you are planning on attending the Festival of Fear as a committed lunatic, please contact me via my blog to arrange a possible exclusive guest post covering events over the three days. I can’t pay you, but you’ll get the privilege of your name shining from the Horrorphile Darkness.
I’m so envious of what’s going to be projected, exhibited, discussed and displayed; including screenings of Jacques Tourneur’s original Cat People (1942) and I Walked With a Zombie (1943), special screening of Mario Bava’s Black Sunday (1960) with Barbara Steele introducing, Q&As with legendary makeup whiz Tom Savini, guerrilla filmmaker Roger Corman, and splatstick superstar Bruce Campbell, a fact and fiction panel on vampires, a workshop on how to make a short horror film, and not forgetting the official festival party "Dance of the Deadites", and an appearance from wurgin blood lover Udo Kier!
One day I’ll get myself to Festival of Fear. For now I have to suffice with Rue Morgue’s great artwork. For those who want a taste of what’s on the menu, it’s a smorgasbord of nightmare delights. Check out the complete nerve-shredding schedule of events here (there is also a link to off-site ticket purchase, for the lucky bastards who live near by).
Okay, after giving it some serious thought: if you’re a decent enough writer and you are planning on attending the Festival of Fear as a committed lunatic, please contact me via my blog to arrange a possible exclusive guest post covering events over the three days. I can’t pay you, but you’ll get the privilege of your name shining from the Horrorphile Darkness.
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