Basil Gogos, The Addams Family Cast to Headline All Night Flea Market
Courtesy of Kreepylady Kristin / The Chicago Creepout:
This Saturday, monster fans everywhere are heading to the Wheaton All Night Flea Market to meet cast members of The Addams Family and celebrated illustrator Basil Gogos on August 15th, from 3pm-3am! This festival runs late, so it’s a perfect time to get into the Halloween spirit a little early and meet fellow fans.
Highlights include:
- The Addams Family Cast Reunion: Carel Struycken (“LURCH,” the Giant in Twin Peaks), Felix Silla (“COUSIN ITT,” Ewok in Return of the Jedi, The Manitou, The Brood), and Lisa Loring (“WEDNESDAY ADDAMS,” Blood Frenzy).
- Basil Gogos – One of the greatest living American illustrators of our time! Basil’s attention-grabbing, vivid monster art has appeared on the covers of around 50 issues of Famous Monsters of Filmland horror magazine.
- Batmobile -Get a photo taken next to a classic ’60s Batmobile and an 8×10 glossy photo of yourself sitting inside it.
- Ron Fitzgerald – Award-winning actor, gothic illusionist, and host of Chicago festivals and burlesque performances who has appeared in films such as Magus, Dark Realm, and Orgy of the Damned.
- Deadgar Winter – Co-host of Deadgar’s Coffin Classics in Wisconsin.
- Undead Johnny – Undead Johnny and members of the “World of the Weird Monster Show” return for more sketch horror comedy fun.
- Ari Lehman – Composer, award-winning jazz musician, and actor best known for his role in the original Friday the 13th as “Jason Voorhees” as a child. Leads his band First Jason and has toured as a keyboardist for many bands.
- Music – Live performances by The Roosevelt Dolls with guest Dr. Destruction, Hi/Jack, First Jason, Electric Medicine, and more.
- Artists and More! – Even more performances, artists (Rob. E. Brown, Connie Faye, Roger Scholz, Linda Touby), bands, vendors, and guests. Too many to list!
Tickets are only $7 and children ages 12 and under get in for free!
Located on the DuPage County Fairgrounds, 2015 W. Manchester, Wheaton, IL 60189. For more information, contact Zurko Promotions at 715-526-9769. Find updates on their Facebook page at allnightfleamarket.
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Free Screening of SINISTER, Friday at at Bohemian Nat’l Cemetery
Leading up to the highly anticipated opening of SINISTER 2, the original SINISTER will be featured as the very first outdoor movie screening at the historic Bohemian National Cemetery, 5255 N. Pulaski Road, Chicago, IL 60630, on Friday, August 14, 2015. Gates open at 8:00 pm, SINISTER screens at 9:00 pm.
The screenings is free and open to the public. Seating in the picnic area is available on a first-come, first-served basis, and audience members are encouraged to bring blankets to sit on.
Alcoholic beverages are not permitted on the premises.
SINISTER 2 is the chilling sequel to the 2012 sleeper hit horror movie. In the aftermath of the shocking events in Sinister, the evil spirit of Bughuul continues to spread with frightening intensity. The new story is a scary, suspenseful race against time to save a family from falling prey to the madness, movies, and murder conjured by Bughuul and his foot soldiers, the ghost kids. http://www.sinistermovie.com/
The Bohemian National Cemetery of Chicago is a Fraternal not for profit cemetery founded in 1877 by Bohemian, Moravian and Slovak immigrants and their descendants to provide a dignified place for burials free of religious restraints. The cemetery is available to all religions, nationalities and races. http://www.bohemiannationalcemeterychicago.org/
The Haunt Chicago iOS App Is HERE!
The brand new, FREE HauntedHouseChicago.com app “Haunt Chicago” is NOW AVAILABLE in the iTunes store, with an Android version currently in the works! Get the Haunt Chicago app to be able to find the haunted houses closest to you in the Chicagoland area, as well as Chicagoland haunt and Halloween news, the ability to rate and review the attractions you visit and more!
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Flashback Weekend Chicago Horror Convention This Weekend
Join Nick Castle & the largest gathering of HALLOWEEN guests in the home state of Michael Myers, Horror Icon John Carroll Lynch -“Twisty the Clown” from American Horror Society & Naomi Grossman (“Pepper”), HALLOWEEN 3 reunion, HALLOWEEN (2007) babysitter reunion – Scout Taylor Compton, Danielle Harris, & Kristina Klebe, director Stuart Gordon and Jeffrey Combs (“Herbert West”), and many more celebrity guests! Special events including Alan Howarth in concert, an outdoor showing of John Carpenter’s HALLOWEEN, Svengolie (Rich Koz) hosting the classic MAD MONSTER PARTY starring Boris Karloff and much more!
For full details, list of celebrity guests, schedule and more visit www.FlashbackWeekend.com
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Available packages include photos with:
- Jeffrey Combs
- Jeffrey Combs & Stuart Gordon
- Danielle Harris
- Scout Taylor-Compton
- John Carroll Lynch
- Naomi Grossman
- Nick Castle
- American Horror Story (John Carroll Lynch & Naomi Grossman)
- The Girls of Rob Zombie's Halloween (Danielle Harris, Scout Taylor-Compton & Kristina Klebe)
- Halloween 1978 Group Photo (Nick Castle,Tommy Lee Wallace, Charles Cyphers, Dean Cundey, Nancy Loomis & Will Sandin) Halloween 5 Group Photo (Danielle Harris, Don Shanks, Tamara Glynn, & Alan Howarth)
- Michael Myers Group Photo (Nick Castle, Tommy Lee Wallace, Dick Warlock, Don Shanks, George P. Wilbur &, Will Sandin)
- Re-Animator Group Photo (Jeffrey Combs, Stuart Gordon, Richard Band, & Carolyn Purdy-Gordon)
