Monstermania

It's taken me a few days to recover from the great time we had at Monstermania 2008 in Cherry Hill,NJ, this past weekend. This was our first time attending and we were impressed. The con is actually held twice a year on March and August. Horror-101 was represented along with a contingency of Baltimore indie filmmakers. Here are some snapshots from the time we had.

The con was heavily attended, and there were many celebrities there. Among them, Bruce Campbell, Malcolm McDowell, Jason Mewes, Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, Brian O'Halloran, Heather Langenkamp, and many others. You'll have to excuse the lack of celebrity pics, as we concentrated more in spreading the word on the site, making friends and meeting fans.


Armando, Mark Colegrove (director, 'Isle Of The Damned'), and Paul Joyce (composer,'Isle..')


Chris Lamartina (director,'Dead Teenagers'),Armando, and FX Artist Ian Potter


View of the crowded vendor's room on Saturday. Left of our table.


Same vendor's room. View of right of our table.


A fellow big Transformers fan showed me his tattoo of Unicron. I'm a TF geek. He had Optimus on his other arm.


Christie, a great girl from Boston, showed us her striking laced body art.


Button-vest Woman showed us her extensive button collection.


Over 300 people waited in line around the hotel to meet Bruce Campbell. Oddly, I didn't seen him once during the weekend. They stashed him away when he wasn't 'on display'. I had met him before at Horrorfind two years ago.


Zombie Wolverine and Spider-Man!


All of a sudden, Paul grew a horrific head out of his shoulder!


And then this kid ripped it off and started playing with it! I think we converted this loveable kid into a future FX artist.


We make some new friends. Armando meets Boston filmmaker Alexia Anastasio, editor of 'Vampyra:The Movie' and director of 'Salome'


Armando live-blogging from the hotel room. Notice the alcohol--typical writer!


It's Saturday night. Let the partying commence! Sink full o' cheap beer and Jaggermeister.


Look who I ran into at the crowded hotel bar--Brian O'Halloran (Dante) from 'Clerks' and 'Clerks 2'


There were many celebrities there, but the one I wanted to meet was Sid Haig ('House Of 1,000 Corpses','The Devil's Rejects') He was down-to-earth awesome!

And so it went at Monstermania Spring 2008. Much thanks to Mark Colegrove, who took some of these pics. A great time was definetely had, and I think we'll definitely be back there next year!