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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.
A prequel to the television series that came to an end last year on Netflix, the stage play Stranger Things: The First Shadow is also now coming to an end on Broadway and in London.
Deadline reports, “Stranger Things: The First Shadow will complete its run at London’s Phoenix Theatre on December 27, 2026, and at Broadway’s Marquis Theatre on January 3, 2027.”
“The production, which cost more than an estimated $20 million to stage on Broadway, has not recouped its capitalization,” Deadline notes in their report this afternoon.
“Stranger Things” creators Matt and Ross Duffer said in a statement, “When the legendary Stephen Daldry first came to us with the idea of making a Stranger Things play, we were stunned — both by the fact that Stephen wanted to do this, and that he believed it could work. And boy, did it work.”
“We remain awed by what Stephen, Kate Trefry, Justin Martin, and all the brilliant behind-the-scenes wizards were able to pull off: cinematic theater unlike anything else out there,” the statement continues. “Their incredible work drew audiences from all over — a majority of whom had never even been to a Broadway show before. We’d also like to give a standing ovation to the incredibly gifted actors who stepped into these roles — including the Tony-nominated Louis McCartney — and to the fans, who made each and every performance so memorable.”
Produced by Netflix and Sonia Friedman Productions, Stranger Things: The First Shadow is directed by Stephen Daldry, co-directed by Justin Martin, and written by Kate Trefry.
The stage play explores the origin story of Henry Creel/Vecna. In 1959 Hawkins, Indiana, the Creel family seeks a fresh start, especially their teenage son Henry, who is eager to escape his troubled past. Initially, things go well — he finds friendship and joins the school play.
But when a wave of shocking crimes strikes the town, Henry is forced to confront a terrifying truth: is there something inside him that connects him to the horrors unfolding around him?
As this thrilling mystery races forward, shadows of the past are unleashed, and the town of Hawkins faces the ultimate question: can the power of friendship outshine the darkness within?
The show opened on the West End in 2023 before beginning its Broadway run in April 2025.
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