Cavalcade of Awesome

Fangoria has been doing their Weekend of Horrors conventions for years. One of my favorite video tapes is the officially released recording of the the 85-86 Weekend of Horrors.

I watched that video tape until it literally disintegrated in my VCR.  I’ve been meaning to get a replacement copy on DVD at some point here.

Anyway, as far as I know, I think Fangoria still puts these conventions on, but I can’t really find a lot of info online. It would be a life goal of mine to go to one at some point. Maybe, if they have one in New Jersey take a trip up, meet up with my boy Jay and spend the weekend celebrating horror movies. THAT would be awesome.

Anyway, every year you could find ads for the latest Weekend of Horrors in the pages of Fangoria.  And it felt like they were always mocking me.  Usually because they were in LA or Secaucus, NJ and I would NEVER be able to go there (until many, many years later).  So let’s look at several years of in-house ads for Fangoria’s Weekend of Horrors.

I think this ad may be advertising the show that they filmed for the above VHS. I’m not sure because it’s been so long since I’ve seen the video. The video tape was released in 1986, but I’m not sure when in 1986. So there could conceivably been another Weekend of Horrors they filmed instead.  However, I’m fairly certain that this is the show that is in the above VHS video.

Lots of good stuff.  Elvira is always a good, even though the ad says “tentative”.  Plus, Dick Miller, Tobe Hooper, Rick Baker and Robert Bloch!  That’s a pretty awesome lineup, especially in 1985.

This is for the 1989 convention.  It’s an early ad as you can see, they haven’t really locked down any specific guests yet.  The huge blurb at the top makes sure to mention a ton of past guests to the show.  And it seems weird that this one was happening so early in the year instead of around Halloween.

Here’s a great ad for the 1994 convention with a rare LIVE appearance by Jack Nicholson who was very heavily promoting his movie, Wolf.  Fangoria did a heavy push for Wolf that year and even had a special all werewolf issue in Fangoria #134.  Other notable guests include Clive Barker (Rawhead Rex) and Wes Craven (Nightmare on Elm Street).

Here’s a nice full color ad for the convention in 2007.  Very nice lineup of guests this year including Doug Bradley (Hellraiser), Jeffrey Combs (Re-animator), Shawnee Smith (Saw movies), Sid Haig and Bill Moseley (House of 1000 Corpses) and Christian Kane (Angel).

And this is the very next year in 2008.  This particular one was celebrating the 40th anniversary of George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead and reunited a ton of the cast with Romero himself as well as Romero’s original writing partner, John Russo.

Also, check out the blog Countdown to Halloween for more Halloween-y, bloggy AWESOMEness.

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