Frightened of being kidnapped by zombies, monsters, and aliens? If you live in the LA area you can enjoy feeding your fears this Halloween holiday season by going to spend time with them willingly.
"At a time when mega-entertainment conventions like San Diego’s Comic-Con International attract big-name stars, thousands of attendees and a blinding glare of media attention, those prepping for Aliens to Zombies say small, niche gatherings like theirs offer their own kind of allure..." writes the LA Times. What are they talking about? None other than the first annual Aliens to Zombies Convention, an event local Los Angeles news sources are promoting as an invasion, "that will bring together visual-effects artists with specialists in the other-worldly for panel discussions, creature-crafting competitions and more..." this Halloween season.
The creepy but cool convention was held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel this weekend (October 21, 22, 23 in 2011).
Kicked off this year with a Friday night Halloween Book Festival, event organizers Todd Masters and Bruce Haring presented an award for Mike Howlett’s “The Weird World of Eerie Publications: Comic Gore That Warped Millions of Young Minds.”
The special event also features a Monster Zoo, a competition to design the best low-cost Halloween costume, and attendees say there has already been a myriad number of panel discussions and forums about the longstanding Hollywood debate -- which demographic is cooler... creepy monsters like zombies that want to eat us alive or terrifying aliens who plan to use UFO space craft to destroy all life as we know it on our planet.
Haring told the LA Times, "There's a rich trope of zombie literature and horror and science fiction that we’re hoping becomes a big part of what we’re doing [with Aliens to Zombies]." He and Masters plan to grow the event from year to year and are already using their Hollywood connections from MastersFX (Todd's company that handles the special effects for the hit HBO vampire and werewolf glorifying series True Blood) to draw in both crowds and future show participants.
Find out more about this year's events and upcoming plans for the 2nd annual event at Alienstozombies.com. Prices for tickets in 2011 were reasonable -- event organizers charged guests $50 for the conference only and $75 for the conference plus access to the frighteningly fun after parties.
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