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Eerie Horror Film Festival, Part 2

I was excited this morning as I looked at the schedule of films for the day and saw that a zombie short was supposed to go on in the morning. So I showed up early, watched the first film (Harvest Moon, a very good vampire short), but was then confused as they skipped the zombie short and went right on to Casting Call of Cthulhu, a fun comedy short with wonderfully-crafted CG work. Alas, no zombie film.

But then I was treated to Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown, a fantastic documentary about HP Lovecraft featuring interviews with Guillermo Del Toro, John Carpenter, Neil Gaiman, and a ton of other well-know horror people. I haven't read Lovecraft for a long, long time, and now I want to go out and read a whole bunch of it.

The other highlight of the day was meeting and talking with Kane Hodder, the actor to best portray Jason Vorhees. He is one huge fella, and very personable. He even was so kind as to do an interview for the Midnight Podcast, in which he expressed what I have been hoping to verify all along: that Jason is in fact a zombie. The interview, along with all the others, will be featured on episode 106 of the Midnight Podcast next week.

Of course, I had to meet and hang out with Chainsaw Sally. Her husband, who is also the director of Chainsaw Sally, was there with her, and snapped the picture you see here. Very nice people.

I may stop by the festival once more tomorrow to stop and say hello to the Rue Morgue magazine people. Their table was very crowded today as I passed by it, and I was getting hungry, so I didn't have the patience to wait around.

Eerie Horror Film Festival

I've just come off two days at the Eerie Horror Film Festival at the Warner Theater. I haven't actually watched any films -- yet. That's for the weekend. As for yesterday and today, I've spent my time there talking to people. Namely the famous ones (but also some of the not-so-famous ones).

First off, I'm really happy that I finally scored a copy of The Video Dead, a movie that I've been attempting to track down for a long time now. One of the DVD vendors had it, and explained that it's out of print and only exists on VHS and VHS-to-DVD transfers. He also had Porn of the Dead, and while I usually jump at the chance of watching any zombie movie I find, I passed on this one. The vendor was a really cool guy, and we talked zombies for quite a while before I moved along to the celebrity section.

Sid Haig was the first celebrity I talked to. He was very nice, but seemed tired. I did an interview with him for the Midnight Podcast in which he was a little less than enthusiastic, but cool nonetheless. I found out he's seriously running for president. If I were a voter, I'd vote for him, no doubt. After that, I strolled around a while longer then left.

This afternoon, I went back and talked to Gunnar Hansen. He's an intimidating man -- large in stature and doesn't smile much. But he's very cool too. His interview for the podcast was definitely fun.

But the man I enjoyed talking with was Ed Neal. This guy is a character. He's a lot of fun, constantly cracking jokes and very animated. I had a blast doing the interview -- we could have gone on and on, but a crowd was gathering to talk to him, so I cut the interview short and let him carry on with his thing.

Hopefully some of the other guys I want to talk to show up this weekend -- namely Kane Hodder and Tony Moran, who were nowhere to be seen so far. I also wouldn't mind talking to Chainsaw Sally and Rodrigo from Rue Morge magazine. We'll see.