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Flashback Weekend Details Final Guest List and Screening Events!
Legendary actor Brad Dourif and director Tom Holland headline a 30th anniversary Child’s Play (1988) reunion at the Flashback Weekend Chicago Horror Con to be held Aug. 3-5, 2018, at the Crowne Plaza Chicago O’Hare in Rosemont, IL.
Other Child’s Play series guests include Fiona Dourif (Curse of Chucky, Cult of Chucky), Alex Vincent (Child’s Play 1 & 2, Cult of Chucky) and Christine Elise (Child’s Play 2). Vincent will be posing for photos with his screen used Chucky doll.
Tom Holland also hosts a Fright Night (1985) reunion featuring William Ragsdale, Amanda Bearse, Stephen Geoffreys, Jonathan Stark, and FX master Steve Johnson. A special make-up photo-op will be available of Stephen Geoffrey’s in his Evil Ed vampire make-up designed and applied by Steve Johnson (creator of the original 1985 make-up)!
Bloody Disgusting is presenting the Flashback Weekend Outdoor Horror Film Fest on a Drive-In Giant outdoor screen! Each screening will feature an extended discussion by the cast.
- Friday, Aug. 3, 2018, Bloody Disgusting presents a 30th-anniversary screening of Child’s Play (1988) hosted by Brad Dourif, Alex Vincent, and director Tom Holland.
- Saturday, Aug. 4, 2018, will present Fright Night (1985) hosted by William Ragsdale, Amanda Bearse, Stephen Geoffreys, Steve Johnson, and director Tom Holland
Bloody Disgusting will also be on hand to screen WORLD OF DEATH episodes during the weekend.
Friday the 13th events include a Five Jason Costume Photo-op – you in one photo with Five Jason stars in costume including Steve Dash (Part 2), Ted White (Part 4), Tom Morga (Part 5), C.J. Graham (Part 6), and Ken Kirzinger (Freddy vs Jason), and a Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984) reunion featuring Ted White (“Jason”), Peter Barton, Lawrence Monoson, and Judie Aronson, and
From “Ash vs. Evil Dead” Dana DeLorenzo (Kelly) and Ray Santiago (Pablo). Many additional guests including director / producer legend Charles Band (Full Moon Entertainment), Michael Berryman (The Hills Have Eyes), Cerina Vincent (Cabin Fever), Paul T. Taylor (Pinhead in Hellraiser Judgment), Lynn Lowry (I Drink Your Blood), John Russo (Night of the Living Dead),and more to be announced!
Chicago Horror Host legend Svengolie (Rich Koz) will also be a very special guest posing for photos, signing autographs, and hosting the Sinister Visions Costume Contest on Sat. Aug. 4, 2018.
Flashback Weekend Chicago Horror Con tickets are now on sale.
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‘Dracula’ Audio Drama for Audible Will Feature Jonathan Bailey as Dracula and Ella Purnell as Mina
The most iconic vampire of them all is coming back to life with a brand new Dracula audio drama from Audible, and Deadline reveals the cast of the upcoming adaptation this week.
Jonathan Bailey (Wicked: For Good) leads the cast of the English-language Audible Original production as legendary blood-sucker Count Dracula, alongside Ella Purnell (Fallout) as Mina, Aimee Lou Wood (The White Lotus) as Lucy, Louis Partridge (Enola Holmes) as Jonathan Harker, David Jonsson (The Long Walk) as Dr Seward, Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread) as Mrs. Westenra, Johnny Flynn (Ripley) as Renfield, Francis Lovehall (A Thousand Blows) as Arthur, and Maggie Gyllenhaal (The Dark Knight) as Professor Van Helsing.
Deadline notes, “The Audible Original is also being produced in Castilian Spanish, French, German, Italian, LATAM Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese,” each with their own casts.
The English-language version will be directed by Mary Lambert (Pet Sematary)!
“When her fiancé vanishes in Transylvania, Mina Murray pieces together fragments of letters, diary entries and chilling testimony to hunt the predator stalking those she loves, only to discover he’s already hunting her. When Mina’s closest friend Lucy succumbs to his thrall, the enigmatic Professor Van Helsing is summoned to wage war on this unfathomable threat.
“But it is Mina, with her intellect, her resolve, her gift for drawing unseen lines between clues, who may hold the key to stopping this ancient predator—if he hasn’t already found his way inside her mind.”
Expect Dracula to sink his fangs into Audible on October 1, 2026.
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