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Creep I.E. Con Returns: Bloody Disgusting Hosting Panels with Cassandra Peterson, Ted Raimi, and ‘Elm Street’/’Scream’ Stars
Creep I.E. Con, one of Southern California’s biggest horror themed conventions, returns to start the spooky in 2026. From January 30th through February 1st, the Ontario Convention Center will house over 30 celebrity guests, 170 vendors, and another round of blockbuster Q & As hosted by Bloody Disgusting.
On Friday, Ted Raimi and Screambox ‘s Director of Programming Tony Wash will preview their new original series in a panel hosted by Scare You to Sleep mastermind Shelby Novak and Bloody Disgusting Executive Director of Business Development Michael Roffman.
Saturday will see The Boo Crew dig deep with David Dastmalchian & Leah Kilpatrick then talk shop with Ice Nine Kills frontman Spencer Charnas before Jose Mangin rounds out the sessions with horror trivia. That’s not all: Emily Kinney will wake the walking dead with a rockin’ aftershow featuring a special appearance by Robert Englund.
Don’t sleep in! Shake off the Sunday Scaries with The Ladies of Elm Street – Amanda Wyss, Lisa Wilcox, Tuesday Knight, Brooke Theiss, Brooke Bundy, Joann Willette, Toy Newkirk – hosted by Diandra Lazor and Michael Roffman. The Boo Crew will keep it Craven with a Scream session feat. Skeet Ulrich, Lee Waddell, Jasmin Savoy Brown, and Dermot Mulroney.
Closing out the weekend is the one and only Cassandra Peterson! For the final hour, hosts Shelby Novak and Michael Roffman will revisit the icon’s inimitable career as she laid it out in her excellent 2021 biography: Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark.
Consult the full schedule below.
The weekend will also host a can’t-miss Lost Boys reunion (Kiefer Sutherland, Jason Patric, Alex Winter, Billy Wirth, and Chance Michael Corbitt); Evil Dead stars Jane Levy, Dana DeLorenzo, Ray Santiago; Back to the Future buds Christopher Lloyd and Thomas F. Wilson; Henry Winkler, Linda Blair, and much more.
It all goes down in less than two weeks — from Friday, January 30th to Sunday, February 1st — at the Ontario Convention Center in Ontario, California. Tickets are selling out fast — in fact, all VIP passes are sold and off the table — so secure your passes ASAP before it’s too late. After all, you don’t want to miss the first real horror event of the year!
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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