If you’re a fan of horror movies and you live near Baltimore, you usually attend the horror convention known as “Horrorfind Weekend”. I’ve been to many of these conventions and I always walk away disappointed in something. The admission per adult (and those over 10 yrs old) is $25.00 and kids under 10 are half price. Think for a moment… who wants to pay to take a kid under 10 to one of these things when most kids are too antsy to allow an adult to enjoy much of anything?
I’ve always went to the convention with aspirations of getting some celebrity autographs (most on my own items from my collection) and buying a few pieces of horror merchandise. Yesterday, I didn’t buy a damned thing and I’ll tell you why that is.
I arrived around 5pm. The admission for 4 was a turnoff. Anyone arriving at 5pm wouldn’t get to meet the various celebrities in attendance because most all of them took off and went to their hotel rooms by 5pm. The vendors had the usual fare for sale – but nothing of real value (as far as I was concerned, anyway).
What gets me really pissed (when I think about it) is this: Do you pay to enter a shopping mall? They have thousands of items for sale and the retailers pay insane rentals for the store space – but they don’t charge you for coming in to “browse” for what you may want to take home. YET HORRORFIND and OTHER CONVENTIONS DO! MOST OF WHAT THEY REALLY OFFER IS MERCHANDISE FOR SALE! SURE! You can PAY to meet a celebrity and take home an autographed photo BUT should you have to PAY $100.00 to ADMIT 4 people to do THAT?
The reasons we attend horror conventions is to meet the celebrities and HOPEFULLY have a good time. THE MOVIES that these people acted in are the only reason we know about them in the first place! HORROR MOVIES are the thing we love! We don’t respect a prick (or bitch) who just collects money for an autograph and BLOWS YOU OFF for the next BUCK.
As horror movies turn to shit around Hollywood, so do horror conventions. It seems everyone is out to make a quick buck by “stepping on” the average citizen in this world – and HORRORFIND is no different. Fuck conventions and to hell with Rob Zombie’s shitty remakes of great John Carpenter HALLOWEEN classics.
I found this video on youtube today and though it was a classic example of what I just wrote about. Introducing, Fred Williamson. Enjoy!
