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It’s no secret that horror is my favorite genre. I am obsessed with horror films. They are by far my favorite kind of movies ever since I was a very, very small child. October is my favorite month of the year, and Halloween is my favorite holiday of the year, and I love the fact that everyone really loves to watch horror movies during the month of October, especially as we get closer to Halloween. So, as a celebration of Halloween (my favorite time of year, my favorite holida

Last weekend I hosted this year's Flashback Weekend  annual Dusk to Dawn Horrorfest at The Midway Drive-In and it was one of the best yet.  The Midway is located an hour and forty-five minute drive outside Chicago in charming  Dixon, Illinois . The annual all-night horror moviethon in September marks the end of the drive-in season at the Midway and every year it's pretty special. This year was no different. The four terrific films this year were  “A Nightmare on Elm Street,”

Here on my Blog you have read all about Flashback Weekend , the best horror convention in the country, that I have been a part of for over 20 years. Mike and Mia Kerz, the creators and of that fantastic annual event also happen to own and run one of the best drive-in theaters in the country: The Midway Drive-In in Dixon, Il. Every year about a month after Flashback, Mike and Mia host what they sometimes refer to as Flashback Weekend Part 2! It is a dusk til dawn celebration

Well, another Flashback Weekend in the books and it was one of the best Flashbacks ever. Each day I posted highlights (here are Day 1 & Day 2 ) with shared stories, pictures, and videos… it’s been a blast. Here are my final Highlights for this year! 1) Photo Ops! Day 3 is usually when I take advantage of the vendor room and the Celebrity Photo-Ops. The casts from "The Warriors" and "John Carpenter's The Thing" were so generous and nice to everyone they met and it was no exce

This week I’m dedicating all posts to my favorite event of the year, The Flashback Weekend Horror Convention. Today, I’m focusing on my Top 5 Flashback moments from the past 22 years. 1 ) MEETING & INTERVIEWING JOHN CARPENTER 2012: John Carpenter and me during his Q&A Without question, the highlight of my 22 years as host/moderator at Flashback was in 2012 when my favorite director of all time, John Carpenter , was a special guest. My life changed when I saw "Halloween" in 19

[Don Coscarelli's book Phiction is available on Amazon ] In the spring of 1979 a low-budget horror film called "Phantasm" was released, and to put it mildly, I lost my (almost) 14 year-old mind. I had never seen anything like it (and I had seen HUNDREDS of horror movies by that point in my life), I loved it, and became obsessed with it. It was so crazy, it got to the point where I went to the theater to see it over 100 times that summer...I am not kidding, over 100 times in