If He Dies, He Dies
Mar. 11th, 2019 07:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vovatBeth and I went to the Monster-Mania Convention on Saturday. As usual, we mostly just attended the question-and-answer panels, rather than getting autographs or anything. There are occasionally guests there I wouldn't mind meeting, but it's always so crowded. Fairuza Balk was there, and she was in Return to Oz, a favorite of mine; but would it have benefited me much to get an autograph? I don't know. Anyway, the first guest we saw was Phil Fondacaro, whom I mentioned when I talked about his role in Ghoulies II.
He was in Return of the Jedi, Troll, The Garbage Pail Kids Movie, Willow, and plenty of other stuff. He talked about how most of his earlier film roles involved wearing full-body costumes, but he gradually became able to do speaking roles without the suits. Then came Monica Keena, who was in Freddy vs. Jason, and discussed how she was terrified of Freddy Krueger as a kid.
C.J. Graham, Jason Voorhees from Friday the 13th, Part VI, who addressed his part as Jason's father (also a serial killer, apparently) in a fan film.
The late Steve Dash also makes an appearance in it as a sheriff. Then came the Soska Sisters, identical twins Jen and Sylvia, whom I'd never heard of but who seemed to be involved in a little bit of everything, particularly filmmaking and comic writing.
They have a theatrical release coming up with a remake of David Cronenberg's Rabid, and wrote a comic story about Black Widow breaking up a pedophilia and torture ring. After a break when they showed a few old movie trailers and Looney Tunes cartoons, came Dolph Lundgren.
I knew he was in Aquaman, but I hadn't realized he recently reprised his role as Ivan Drago in Creed 2. He also talked a bit about his part in Masters of the Universe, and did Sylvester Stallone impressions. The final panel had actors from the original Halloween film and from last year's sequel.
One was Jibrail Nantumbu, the kid who talked about cutting his toenails, who was pretty hilarious. He mentioned that he hadn't seen all of the movie, just his own part. Also there were Will Sandin and Sandy Johnson, the young Michael and Judith Myers from the first film. It was pretty fun, even though I was tired throughout most of it.
Speaking of conventions, I want Beth to come with me to OzCon in July, but while I'll hopefully have paid time off by then, she won't. That makes it difficult to plan summer excursions, when there are a bunch of things we want to do. It also means that, if we do go to Pomona, we wouldn't be able to participate in Disneyland Day. We were considering going back to Disney World in 2018, the tenth anniversary of our first trip there, but it didn't work out.
He was in Return of the Jedi, Troll, The Garbage Pail Kids Movie, Willow, and plenty of other stuff. He talked about how most of his earlier film roles involved wearing full-body costumes, but he gradually became able to do speaking roles without the suits. Then came Monica Keena, who was in Freddy vs. Jason, and discussed how she was terrified of Freddy Krueger as a kid.
C.J. Graham, Jason Voorhees from Friday the 13th, Part VI, who addressed his part as Jason's father (also a serial killer, apparently) in a fan film.
The late Steve Dash also makes an appearance in it as a sheriff. Then came the Soska Sisters, identical twins Jen and Sylvia, whom I'd never heard of but who seemed to be involved in a little bit of everything, particularly filmmaking and comic writing.
They have a theatrical release coming up with a remake of David Cronenberg's Rabid, and wrote a comic story about Black Widow breaking up a pedophilia and torture ring. After a break when they showed a few old movie trailers and Looney Tunes cartoons, came Dolph Lundgren.
I knew he was in Aquaman, but I hadn't realized he recently reprised his role as Ivan Drago in Creed 2. He also talked a bit about his part in Masters of the Universe, and did Sylvester Stallone impressions. The final panel had actors from the original Halloween film and from last year's sequel.
One was Jibrail Nantumbu, the kid who talked about cutting his toenails, who was pretty hilarious. He mentioned that he hadn't seen all of the movie, just his own part. Also there were Will Sandin and Sandy Johnson, the young Michael and Judith Myers from the first film. It was pretty fun, even though I was tired throughout most of it.
Speaking of conventions, I want Beth to come with me to OzCon in July, but while I'll hopefully have paid time off by then, she won't. That makes it difficult to plan summer excursions, when there are a bunch of things we want to do. It also means that, if we do go to Pomona, we wouldn't be able to participate in Disneyland Day. We were considering going back to Disney World in 2018, the tenth anniversary of our first trip there, but it didn't work out.
