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Texas Frightmare Weekend is a horror-oriented for-profit media event held occasionally in the Dallas, Texas area. Guests have included actors, directors, and producers from classic and upcoming horror films.

Past events

The first Texas Frightmare Weekend was held February 4-5, 2006, at the Grapevine Convention Center in Grapevine, Texas. Guests included Joe Bob Briggs, Linnea Quigley, Ashlie Rhey, Brinke Stevens, Jon Keeyes, Scott von Doviak, Tom Savini, and Ses Carny. A Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to the "founding father of bad cinematic blood," Herschell Gordon Lewis.

The second Texas Frightmare Weekend was held June 22-24, 2007, at the Omni Dallas Park West hotel in Dallas, Texas. The Guest of Honor at this event was director George Romero. Programming included screenings of upcoming and classic horror films, panels about horror films and actors, roundtable discussions, documentary screenings, autograph signings, and a special presentation of "Inside the B-Actor's Studio with Clint Howard." A Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to effects maestro Tom Savini. Other guests included John Russo, Jeffrey Combs, Linnea Quigley, Doug Bradley, Ashley Laurence, Kristina Klebe, Danielle Harris, Nancy Loomis, Adrienne Barbeau, Lew Temple, Angela Bettis, Ken Evert, Eileen Dietz, Cerina Vincent, George Kosana, Russell Streiner, Charles Cyphers, Barbara Nedeljáková, Gaylen Ross, Jonathan Breck, Camden Toy, Tom Atkins, C.A. Broadstone, Tony Simmons, Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, Lloyd Kaufman, Caroline Williams, and James Hampton.

A third Texas Frightmare Weekend was held at the D/FW Lakes Hilton in Grapevine, Texas, on February 22-24, 2008. The event was off with a special red carpet event sponsored by AFI Dallas honoring the 40th anniversary of Night of the Living Dead. A vintage 35mm print of the classic horror film was screened followed by a panel discussion with the original cast and moderated by Malcolm McDowell. Guests for the 2008 event included George A. Romero, Cassadra Peterson (Elvira), the cast of Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Land of the Dead and Diary of the Dead. Also in attendance were Malcolm McDowell, Dee Wallace Stone, Danielle Harris, Kristina Klebe, and Scout Taylor Compton from Rob Zombie's Halloween. Oscar award winning special effects master Greg Nicotero was also a guest as well as Tom Savini, Tom Atkins, Jason Lively, Coralina Cataldi-Tossani, Kelli Maroney, Jim Wynorski, Lynn Lowry, Ed Neal, Courtney Gains, Kathleen Kinmont and Harvey Stephens in his first ever US appearance.

The fourth Texas Frightmare Weekend took place May 1-3, 2009, at the Sheraton Grand Hotel in Dallas. Guests included director Tobe Hooper, shock rocker Alice Cooper, Karen Black, William Forsythe, Dick Miller, Derek Mears, Linda Blair, Terri McMinn, Fairuza Balk, CJ Graham, Robert Hall, Bobbie Sue Luther, Jonathan Schaech, Caroline Williams and more.

Upcoming conventions

A fifth Texas Frightmare Weekend has been announced for April 30-May 2, 2010, at the Sheraton Grand Hotel. Guests announced include legendary director John Carpenter, Lance Henriksen, Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, Doug Bradley, Betsy Palmer and Margot Kidder.

References

1. ^ Fortner, Ellena (2006-02-06). "FRIGHT PLAN: Horror-movie fans take in all the gore they can stand at Texas Frightmare Weekend in Grapevine". Fort Worth Star-Telegram . http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-12597858_ITM .  
2. ^ "Festival of Frights: A local peddler of B-movie horrors marks a North Texas first". Fort Worth Weekly . 2005-11-30 . http://www.fwweekly.com/content.asp?article=3440 .  
3. ^ Robinson, Gaile (2006-02-10). "EYE SPY goes to a Frightmare Fest". Fort Worth Star-Telegram : p. E1. "Early on a Sunday morning, strolling around the Grapevine Convention Center, one doesn't expect to see legions of goth-dressed horror film aficionados. Yet that was exactly who was there when the city of the grape hosted Texas Frightmare Weekend, two entire days devoted to celebrating slasher flicks and the lads and lassies who make them."  
4. ^ Savlov, Marc (2006-02-03). "It's Alive! Texas (finally) gets a horror-film convention to call its own". The Austin Chronicle . http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid%3A333879 .  
5. ^ Gross, G. Noel (2006-02-03). "Over the Top: Texas Frightmare Weekend". The Dallas Morning News . "Headlining Texas Frightmare in Grapevine this weekend is a 20th-anniversary reunion of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2. Meet, in relative safety, Bill "Chop Top" Moseley, Bill "Leatherface" Johnson, grue-slinger Tom Savini, screamin' Caroline Williams and others, including a certain drive-in denizen."  
6. ^ Lammers, Tim (2008-02-21). "Romero Celebrates 40 Years Of 'Living Dead'". KNTV-TV San Francisco . http://www.nbc11.com/entertainment/15369882/detail.html .  
7. ^ Daniel, Mike (2007-06-22). "Scare tactics". The Dallas Morning News . "More than 40 celebrities of the genre, including actors Adrienne Barbeau (Creepshow) and Doug Bradley (Pinhead in Hellraiser) and Creepshow director George A. Romero, will attend. Anniversary homages to those two films will be part of the proceedings, too."  

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