September 24, 2005

Fangoria Weekend of Horrors, Secaucus, NJ, September 24th, 2005 at the Crowne Plaza Meadowlands

Once again, the FANGORIA Weekend Of Horrors kicked off on Saturday morning with an introduction by Fango editor Tony Timpone and CREATION Entertainment’s Adam Malin. They started the show off with a slew of upcoming genre films such as Peter Jackson’s King Kong and the remake of The Fog. This lead right into the first panel with Jeff Lieberman, the creator of Squirm and Blue Sunshine who was on hand to preview his new horror film, Satan’s Little Helper, and give out autographed promotional posters.

The first huge panel of the day was for the upcoming Showtime series MASTERS OF HORROR. We were treated to a kick-ass trailer, and then series creator and director Mick Garris took the stage with fellow director John Landis! The duo covered just about everything you’d want to know from these two. They showed a clip from the John Landis episode of Masters Of Horror titled Deer Woman, which features Michael Benben (of Dream On fame) getting kicked across a room by a woman with deer legs. Needless to say, the clip was hilarious. They told us a bit about what to expect for the upcoming series.

The pair said that Roger Corman is recovering from a heart attack but will be directing an episode for Season 2. Yes folks, MASTER OF HORRORS is intended to be an ongoing series! They confirmed that for the Dario Argento episode, Goblin will be doing the score. And then they went on to comment about everything from Garris’ Psycho IV (which Landis loves) to Michael Jackson and the Twilight Zone movie. Both Garris and Landis feel that Jacko did not molest any children but that he may very well be insane. Landis called the Twilight Zone incident a horrible “tragedy” and despite it all, he feels that one day Universal will in fact make another Twilight Zone movie. Landis got choked up when asked about John Belushi and said that he’s still mad at him for not getting help. This was a heartfelt and difficult moment for audience members, as we’ve not used to Landis being anything other than playful and funny. This panel was a nice start to the convention and turned out to be one of the best panels from any of our convention experiences. After the panel, Landis and Garris stuck around for a while, and were more the happy to sign for fans for FREE!

*All photos by Robert V. Galluzzo and property of Icons Of Fright.com