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Kane Hodder and C.J. Graham Both Playing Jason Voorhees at Upcoming Conventions
We know you want a new movie, but this is cool too!
It’s becoming increasingly common for horror actors to attend conventions and pose for photos as their iconic characters, which offers fans pretty awesome opportunities to essentially come face-to-face with their favorite big screen villains. Pretty much every fan has by this point in time already met Robert Englund, but Englund as Freddy? Well that’s a whole new experience.
If you’re a fan of the Friday the 13th franchise, you’ll be happy to hear that both C.J. Graham (Friday the 13th Part 6: Jason Lives) and Kane Hodder (too many to list) will be playing Jason Voorhees at upcoming conventions in the early part of this year. First up, Graham will be taking part in an in-costume photo-op as Part 6 Jason at next month’s Days Of The Dead in Atlanta, Georgia. The opportunity will be available to attendees on Saturday, February 4th only.
Graham will be fully decked out in, as the convention’s site describes, “a professionally crafted, studio quality outfit designed using parts from the screen used original.”
As for Kane Hodder, he’ll be posing for photos as The New Blood‘s incarnation of Jason Voorhees at Mad Monster Party in Rock Hill, South Carolina on Friday, March 24th. Hodder did the same thing back in 2015, and once again, legendary makeup effects artist/The New Blood director John Carl Buechler will be personally applying the screen-accurate costume on the hulking icon.
Don’t miss these rare and totally awesome opportunities.
In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war, but it was a cheerful illustrator from England who helped to define the terrifying war-torn imagery that inspired what we now know as Grimdark (a hybrid genre combining horror with sci-fi/fantasy).
Unfortunately for fans of Warhammer 40,000, Trench Crusade and countless other sources of Grimdark thrills, veteran artist John Blanche passed away this week after struggling with health issues for the past few years.
While the artist retired back in 2023, he leaves us with an enormous legacy of iconic artwork that continues to inspire gamers and storytellers around the world to this very day.
The news is especially gloomy as it was only last year that Daniel Lowman and Napoleon Dynamite himself Jon Heder released The Grim & the Dark: The Search for John Blanche, a documentary following Heder’s exploration of the Grimdark genre culminating in a heartwarming encounter with Blanche in his own home.
Below is one of my favorite pieces by Blanche, his highly influential depiction of Warhammer 40k’s God-Emperor of Mankind on his Golden Throne.
We send our deepest condolences to John Blanche’s family, friends, and fans.
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