I went on Saturday and after the always cofusing admittance process, I went straight to Matthew Lillard's line. Hey, my nephews love Five Nights at Freddy's, so I wasn't going to bail out on that. Besides, I hadn't met anybody from Scream yet, can you believe that? I've met just about all the other big deal horror guys, but nobody from Scream. Since his FNaF venture, Lillard's fame kinda blew up at these cons, so his line was pretty long, but he handled it well, and since I had children with me, I got to cut in the VIP line... only to have to wait another hour as he bailed for a Scream panel.

Despite being pretty expensive, he was very friendly and took a pic with the nephews and signed all their plushies. After that, the kids had no real reason to stay, since I can never seem to get them to watch any actual horror movies. I made sure to ask him real quick what it was like to work with John Waters and David Lynch. He said, "Amazing," for both.


There were a few people I wanted to meet, but Lin Shaye's line was quite long. I guess people love those Insidious movies, but I've never seen any. I just love Detroit Rock City, but that was a no-go. Eli Roth's line was long and expensive, so that was also a no-go. Sean Cunningham and Adrienne King were only there when I was about to leave, so that was a no-go also. My buddy wanted to meet Juliette Lewis, but she was arrogant and had a private area on the top-floor with some Lost Boys guys and you needed virtual tickets to meet her. WTF? Who does she think she is? Someone popular and relevant?


I did, however, meet Adam Green. His line was empty, but he was cool as hell. He was telling us how Hatchet 5 has been hindered by covid and the strikes and all this hoopla. He also had the book written by Parry Shen's character from Part 4 about his survival story. Yeah, that was a real book and Adam Green wrote it! It apprently covers the 10 year gap between 3 and 4 and is filled with embellished falasies, which I thought was a nice touch.

And next to his table was Danielle Harris, who didn't have a line this time, but she was still looking great. I snapped a picture of her from afar and zoomed in it. I've seen some great shirts with her on it and was hoping I could find one from one of the vendors. I would have asked her to sign it. Or spit on it. Or spit on ME. @der said I should have asked her to stick it in her pants, rub it around, and then give it to me. I would have paid good money for that.


Shit, that place was crowded. I hate getting stuck behind people who stop randomly as if there aren't a hundred people behind them trying to squeeze through the narrow spaces, so I was ready to beat it. But to get my money's worth, I did weasel in a short line to meet Michael Ironside. He was basically exactly as you'd expect him to be. Angry looking, but not a jerk. I'd forgotten he was in Turbo Kid, and he mentioned that they're making a sequel. Of course, it is also being held up by the strikes, go figure. I told him I loved his intensity, and he seemed to enjoy that.

I've gotten pretty efficient at not wasting too much time at these cons. The lineup this year wasn't exactly new or thrilling, but I always get something good out of it.