MIDSUMMER SCREAM Horror Con - Hall of Shadows Details

The massive Hall of Shadows dark zone will return to Midsummer Scream, the world’s largest Halloween and horror convention, featuring a horrifying array of haunted attractions, terrifying photo ops, and live entertainment July 26 to July 28 at the Long Beach Convention Center. Passes for this year’s Midsummer Scream are available now at www.MidsummerScream.com.

Gears of Fear: Explore the Legacy of Lionsgate® Horror is the first walk-through experience ever created for the Hall of Shadows by a major motion-picture studio. In partnership with Jon Cooke and his team at Plague Productions, Lionsgate invites fans to come face-to-face with some of the most formidable characters in cinematic history, as the studio’s greatest madmen and monsters stalk and slash at every turn.

Zombies Devour Asbury Park, NJ

We watch the films and laugh at the gore, knowing this sort of thing would never happen to us...until THIS SORT OF THING HAPPENS TO US!!! This past weekend, the sleepy sea side town of Asbury Park was completely over-run by drooling, grunting, shambling undead hordes who seemed less interested in cracking open the craniums of the local populace and more into hitting vendors selling creepy goods, watching top notch entertainment, meeting the undead stars of their favorite TV shows and films and most importantly, just being themselves on a beautiful October day! Over 12 thousand re-animated Americans hit the Undead Festival and we survived to tell the tale and came home with a flash card over flowing with images of the most polite zombie rampage ever recorded. For the full story, hit up DREAD CENTRAL ! To dive straight into the images, just CLICK HERE!

Saturday Nightmares Assaults Central NJ Jun 3-5th

HEY KIDS!! Do you LOVE your horror sumthin’ fierce? Are you lookin’ for a place to mingle amongst your fellow fiends and you bask in the warm, green glow of famous zombies and assorted masters of horror? WELL SATURDAY NIGHTMARES IS THE PLACE FOR YOU!! This June 3-5^th, The Sheraton Meadowlands Hotel in East Rutherford, NJ goes to HELL.. and plays hosts horror’s elite including the great Martin Landau, Tippi Hedren, Sid Haig, Julian Sands and Doug Bradley alongside the casts of Dawn of the Dead, Return of the Living Dead and many, many more! For a full lineup hit https://saturdaynightmares.com !! The convention also includes a band of deviants that will send you screaming into the night if you lock eyes with them. It’s your buddies at Dread Central.com!! (and Idle Hands..since it's meee) Dread will be on hand Saturday the 4^th and Sunday the 5^th to load you up with free swag from only the finest of horror projects we mouth off about daily on your most favorite of web sites. If that’s not enough for you unrelenting meatbags, we’ll also be holding hourly contests to win even better gear! This year’s promotional partners include…

Shout Factory: The ONLY company able to make Gamera and the Mystery Science Theater crew play nice with each other. The fine fiends at the Factory have sent a nice stack of DVD's for prizes. Get your copy of Galaxy of Terror signed by Sid Haig and ask him about giant alien rapist slugs!

Magnolia: Providing only the most insane collection of movie titles for the masses. Magnolia is sending a stack of posters from current releases like Troll Hunter and Rubber (the story of a killer tire!) as well as some DVDs for prizes.

Quirk Books: Those warped geniuses behind Pride and Prejudice and Zombies! Quirk generously dumped 2 boxes of books in my lap for prizes as well as some awesome posters you'll be able to scoop up.

After Dark: Always sure to bring you 8 Films to DIE For. Their posters will be on the table for you to snatch while selections from their DVD collections will be tossed into our hourly contests.

SEGA: Who recently infused your Wii with Conduit 2 and will soon possess your Kinect! For all my geeks in the house, SEGA sent us the last of their exclusive WONDERCON Thor and Loki posters as well as limited edition Conduit 2 figures for the contests! These were only released in Australia, so if you are a furious gamer, be on the lookout!

Dark Horse: They’ll show you their Tim Burton goodies if you show them yours! (this is gonna get weird..I can tell). We'll be displaying 2 pieces from their large scale Tim Burton Tragic Toys for Boys & Girls series.

Warner Brothers: That movie company who service every sort of geek under the sun. I actually have no idea what the good ole WB is sending, but I hope it looks like rolls of awesome posters!

Activision: Who will make that Call of the Dead for you and won’t reverse the charges. Come grab a free contest ticket and hope your number is up..to win a limited edition Call of the Dead poster!!

HBO: With the triumphant return of your favorite southern fried Vamps. HBO want you to celebrate the new season of True Blood with us so look for some limited edition teaser posters on the tables.

IMAX: Who pose the question; What is better than Pirates of the Caribbean in 3D? Pirates of the Caribbean in IMAX 3D on a screen bigger than your house!!! The movie is in theaters now, but we'll keep the party going with some posters & other pirate booty.

Adrenaline PR: Rocking your brains out since the days of Gozer the Gozerian! Again...no clue what our friends in metal are sending over, but I'm sure it will ROCK.

Want some free stuff while rubbing elbows the with nightmare elite? Get your ass to Saturday Nightmares!! We’ll see you there!

This Weekend at Monster-Mania

I won't be updating this weekend since I'll be at Monster-Mania in Cherry Hill, NJ with my droogies running the Dread Central table, giving away free junks and prizes all day long. Things I am bringing with me include..

• Clash of the Titans Visors and Beach Balls, for when you unleash the Kraken on Spring Break.

• A Captain America Gumball Dispensing Belt Buckle. No, you may not have one.

• ThinkGeek Electric Guitar and Drum Kit T Shirts for abrupt noise to drown out the voices.

• Runaways Guitar Picks which you can hand to Scout and have her throw them to you as if she really were Lita Ford at a concert and you, her illegitimate children she forgot she had.

• Several selections from the Quirk Books library including Sense and Sensibility...and Seamonsters..because great literature deserves a horror re-write.

Come say Hi and politely pretend you didn't notice I was drunk.