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Frightvision 2003
The Holiday Inn Holidome
03-29-03
I’m a die hard horror fan, so of course I had to go to
this. I attended on Saturday, which was day 2 of the convention, and aside
from a few gripes had a pretty good time. There was a great line-up of
guests signing autographs and in some cases giving talks and appearing on
panels, including Linda Blair, Traci Lords, Julie (Catwoman) Newmar, Gil
(Buck Rogers) Gerard, Erin Gray, Robert Z’dar, director J.R. Bookwalter (The
Dead Next Door) and Tom Savini. There were also horror hosts like The Son
of Ghoul, lots of aspiring scream queens, Ed Douglas of Midnight Syndicate,
and Utter Trash interview subjects Speedfreak Productions. They were there
selling copies of their films including ‘Midnight Skater’, which now
includes a blurb from my review on the back. I feel like a real critic
now.
There was plenty of temptation in the dealers’ room,
but unfortunately it was tough to get through at times. This was a problem
at last year’s Frightvision as well, and I had hoped the change in hotels
would have fixed that. Sadly it was just as bad. Please, next show try to
leave enough space for you attendees to walk. Some guests were mixed into
this clusterfuck, and people waiting in line to talk to them and/or get an
autograph would create jams in the aisles. Other guests were in a quite
spacious lobby area that could have accommodated at least a few more of the
celebs. It would have helped to have all the guests out in this area.
Maybe there was a reason that wasn’t done but hopefully future cons will get
these kind of logistics worked out. My complaints aside, I still had a good
time. I scored some hard to find DVDs and talked to some cool people whose
work I enjoy. I only stayed about four hours, but there was plenty of other
stuff to check out well into the wee hours of the night, including movies
and live bands like The King Dapper Combo and Gein and the Graverobbers.
(Bob Ignizio)
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