***OKAY,
SLIGHTLY NEW FORMAT, SOME PEOPLE HAVE BEEN COMPLAINING THAT THEY
DO NOT KNOW WHICH MOVIES CERTAIN HORROR CELEBS ARE FROM, SO I AM
GOING TO START PUTTING A LITTLE INFO NEXT TO THEIR NAMES.
BASICALLY WHAT THEY ARE MOST FAMOUS FOR.***
August 2006
Horrorfind Weekend
*NOTE- If you
want to skip my lengthy review, just scroll down to the pics :)
I know I must say this every year, but this was the best
Horrorfind
yet for me and Mom!
First of all, those who know me might wonder why I wasn't devastated by the fact
that Adrienne Barbeau
had to cancel at the last minute, but there are a few reasons that I wasn't so
upset. 1)
There was nothing that could have prevented it; the aborted terrorist plot was
obviously not expected, and as soon as it hit the news, I was already preparing
myself for cancellations.
2)
The fact that she was asked back and agreed to come this year; this means she
will be back someday and that makes me happy.
3)
I was so incredibly nervous and filled with anxiety about meeting her (I
literally got lightheaded thinking about it) most of my tension was gone when I
realized she wasn't coming.
So, that
out of the way, at least only a few people cancelled, and that was great for
Mike,
I just feel so terrible about
Rutger Hauer
canceling because I know how much that meant to
Mike.
Once we
were checked in and were settled in our room, we headed to the celeb room and
immediately got into line for
George Romero.
When we passed the lobby before that we noticed
Howard Sherman
checking in, and I was thrilled. This was a lifelong dream of mine coming
true. The four people I had wanted to meet most were
Adrienne,
George,
Howard,
and Tom Atkins,
and I was finally going to be meeting three of them.
The wait
in line for George
was around an hour, but this was mostly because he really likes to chat with
people, I think he is fascinated by his fans. When the time finally came,
it was nothing like I had imagined. He was first startled by all my
tattoos, and then even more startled by my newest
Dawn of the Dead
tattoo:
He said
"This is ridiculous!"
in a Daffy Duck voice. He then went nuts when I told him I was getting my
master's to teach elementary students. He said,
"They'll run screaming from
you!!" and I informed
him that I wouldn't be wearing a tattoo revealing outfit, to which he replied,
"Oh, you have other
clothing." LOL!!!
He is hysterical! I had previously picked out six pictures and a t-shirt
from his enormous merchandise table. Two of the pics were for friends, one
of which was my tattoo artist,
Scott.
George
was wondering what to write to
Scott,
when I said, "How
about 'Nice Tattoo!'",
and George
replied "Nice Tits?!"
LOL! He ended up spending nine minutes chatting with me, and it was great,
but I felt sorry for the people in line. Oh well, we waited and it was
worth it.
We then
went straight to Joe
Pilato's table.
While we were in line for
George,
we kept hearing Joe
scream out lines from
Day of the Dead,
and we were going nuts, hoping he would do something for us. I had met
Joe
previously at the '99
FangoCon, and wow was
this different! He was really sweet and a little quiet at the
FangoCon,
but now he was insane! Lol!! What fun! First of all, he looks
amazing, he seems to have lost some weight and grew his hair out.
When we
got to his table, I showed him my tattoo (I know, but I love it!!) and explained
to him I was going to be getting a matching
Day of the Dead
tattoo on my other leg, and he said,
"You better! Or I'll
give you a spanking!"
and wiggled his eyebrows up and down suggestively, lol. He was just
incredible charming, flirty, energetic and funny! I then asked him if
maybe he would do a line from
Day, and he did the
full "I'm running the
show Frankenstein!"
line real loud followed by some barking, lol!
I then
ended up confessing to him about my old free
Fangoria
subscriber ad from when I was ten that said
"I love
Joe Pilato"
and he made some
jokes about the whole illegality and underage stuff. I had him sign three
pictures and then he offered me a choice of two buttons,
"PUSS FUCK"
or "Horror Whore".
I picked "PUSS FUCK"
and he proceeded to shout
"And the lady goes for the "PUSS FUCK"
and then stood and held the button over my head shouting things like
"You loved me when you were
ten!!" Then
when I pointed out my
Mom
who was recording the whole thing, he got a little embarrassed, lol (George
was a little embarrassed too, after the
"Nice Tits"
remark, lol).
Joe then came over
and kissed me on the cheek and told
Mom
he loved me, and Mom
said, "She loves you
too!", lol.
After that
we decided to go to
Jennifer Baxter's
table. She was really sweet and I felt bad because she spelled my name
wrong on the pic and threw it out and started a new one. She was really
great and she is so pretty!! I would have to say that she is my favorite
zombie in Land of the
Dead.
Next was
Pedro Miguel Arce,
and what a sweet guy!!! He is just so cool and so nice, it was great!
It was at
this point that my camcorder started acting up and for the rest of the day, the
picture was messed up and there was no sound, which really sucked because we got
some great stuff. Oh well, at least we could see the images and we
remember most of what was said. I was grateful that it was not the camcorder
itself, but the tape, and up until this point the footage was fine. I used
a fresh tape the next day and went back to a couple of the tables.
We next
went to Howard
Sherman's table and
he was incredible. I love his smile, and he is very soft-spoken and sweet.
He had great Bub
pics too; I was elated. My only regret was not having him sign or say
something regarding
Aunt Alicia, lol.
I just didn't think of it.
We then
went to the Jeff
Lieberman table and
talked to him about
Squirm and how much
we both loved that movie. He had a great pic that
Mom
got from him.
After that
we saw Nancy Loomis,
and she was great. She really talks like that! Lol. I love her
voice.
We then
went to see Tom
Atkins, and this was
a big thrill for me and
Mom.
It ended up being a bigger thrill for
Mom,
though, lol. He was great with me and had a very nice selection of pics to
choose from.
Mom had already
prepared a line she had wanted him to write from a movie called
A Stranger Waits
that we love. The line is,
"Tell me how he got to be
dead." Mom
was nervous that he might not remember the line or movie, but when she mentioned
to movie, he immediately sparked up as it is a made for TV movie, and probably
not a lot of horror hounds bring it up to him, lol. He ended up really
hitting it off with
Mom, and it was
great! He told some stories about the movie and he was so enchanting.
At the end he came and gave us both hugs, a real long one for
Mom,
lol! She almost passed out! Of course we didn't get any sound on the
video which really was terrible, but at least we can see it. We had to go
out into the hall to regain out composure, and we realized they were not letting
anyone back in so we decided to go back in to see
Charles Cyphers
before resigning for the night.
Charles
was really nice and when I went to pose for a pic with him, he had
Nancy
pose with us. That was the end of the first night, sigh, lol.
The next
day we went straight back to
Tom's
and Howard's
tables to get some footage with sound, and it worked out fine.
We then
went to Greg
Nicotero's table.
He was another one that I wanted to meet almost all of my life. I was very
young when I saw Tom
Savini's
Scream Greats,
and I always loved the part in the video where
Greg
talks about the prank he pulled on his mother with his dummy head from
Day,
lol. He was really wonderful and had some great props that he used for
posing for pictures. He also, along with the many cool pics (including a
killer one from Land
that had the Shaun
boys and George
in it with him) he had available, he had a stack of fake newspapers that were
replicas of the Day
of the Dead newspaper
from the opening scene,
"THE DEAD WALK".
It even has great fake stories in it about the government dealing with the
zombie phenomena, lol. I had to get one of those!!
We then
got into the very long
Priscilla Barnes
line and waited almost an hour.
Devil's Rejects
is one of my favorite recent
movies, and I have to admit, that I am also a
Three's Company
fan, so this was a thrill.
Priscilla
was incredible, and , lol, was very much like her
Nurse Terri
character from
Three's Company.
She spent a great deal of time with each fan and was very sweet and charming as
well as funny.
Lastly, we
went to Alex
Vincent's table.
He was very nice, and I think this was the first time I ever met a celeb younger
than me, lol.
Once
again, Mike
outdid himself with a stellar lineup and great staff. He busted his ass
the final days scurrying all over the place and paying a great deal of money in
cab fare to make sure the celebs arrived safely with all the terrorist crap
going on. Thanks to his efforts, things ran smoothly and we had the best
time ever!! Okay, NOW on to the pics, lol!!
George A. Romero:
**George
is the amazing director of the classic Dead series: Night of the Living Dead,
Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, and Land of the Dead, as well as many other
amazing movies including Martin, Knightriders, Creepshow, and the first story in
Two Evil Eyes**
Moment of a lifetime.
I was in awe.
Ultimate Romero Site:
http://www.ultimateromero.com/main.html
Josef Pilato:
**Josef
is the menacing Captain Rhodes from Day of the Dead and has also appeared in
Dawn of the Dead, Knightriders, Pulp Fiction (look close, he's Dean Martin at
Jack Rabbit Slim's), Wishmaster, and was a recurring voice character in the
Digimon series, as well as appearing in many other movies**
What a trip!!!
Very Outdated Fan Page:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/8458/joe.html
Jennifer Baxter:
**Jennifer was #9, the baseball zombie in Land of the Dead and appeared in Dark
Water as well as dozens of other movies and television shows**
Very sweet and so beautiful.
Pedro Miguel Arce:
**Pedro
played the awesome Pillsbury in Land of the Dead as well as many other movies
and television shows**
What a wonderful and sweet
man!
Pedro's
Official Site:
http://www.pedromiguelarce.com/
Howard Sherman:
**Although extremely talented with a huge amount of credits under his belt,
Howard is best known as his incredible and endearing portrayal of Bub from Day
of the Dead**
A very sweet man, and a
dream come true.
Nancy Loomis:
**Nancy
is known for her many roles in John Carpenter movies including Halloween, The
Fog, and Assault on Precinct 13**
Very Cool!!
Tom Atkins:
**Tom
has endeared himself to a legion of fans, known for making many famous quips in
his various movies, he has appeared in The Fog, Creepshow, Halloween 3, Maniac
Cop, Two Evil Eyes, A Stranger Waits, Bruiser, Escape From New York, Night of
the Creeps, Lethal Weapon, and many other movies and television shows**
What an incredible man!!!
Great Fan Site:
http://tomatkinsonline.net/
Charles Cyphers:
**Charles has appeared in several John Carpenter movies including Assault on
Precinct 13, Halloween, and Escape From New York as well as numerous other
movies and television shows**
Great guy!!!
Greg Nicotero:
**Greg
is the "N" in the special effects master group KNB responsible for much too many
incredible movie credits; he has also acted in Day of the Dead and a memorable
scene in Body Bags as well as appearing in Intruder, From Dusk 'Til Dawn, House
on Haunted Hill, Cursed, Hills Have Eyes remake (as Cyst), The Demolitionist,
and Cemetery Gates**
An incredible guy and soooo
friendly!!
Priscilla Barnes:
**Priscilla
is best known from her role as Nurse Terri from Three's Company and has appeared
in tons of movies, recently as part of the doomed traveling band Banjo &
Sullivan in The Devil's Rejects**
So funny!!
Alex Vincent:
**Alex
is best known as playing little Andy in Child's Play 1 & 2**
Very sweet!
Alex's MySpace Page:
http://www.myspace.com/alexvincentatmyspace
Dude Who Took My Money at the Romero Table:
**This
is the dude who took my money at the Romero table, lol**
It seems that he appeared
everywhere we looked, lol!
Beautiful Family:
**Appeared behind us in the Priscilla Barnes line**
They just looked so great, I
had to get a pic!!
