Convenient schedule guide for the whole weekend!
Friday
7pm – 9:30pm – I Drink Your Blood cast and crew screening
9pm – 9:30pm – Zombie Fashion Show
Just because one is undead, doesn’t mean one can’t be stylish. Join us [JOINNNN USSSSSSSS…] for our Zombie Fashion Show, where the zombie is the fashion!
Hosted by Dee Astell
9:30pm – 10pm – Phantoms of Phoenix
Koldwun FReeZE and Synasta have been working together for over a decade, first as part of No Luck, and now as the Phantoms of Phoenix. They provide dark late night hip hop/electronic influenced melodies, and are nocturnal MC’s with vivid word play and a love for pizza, comics, video games and, of course, horror!
10pm – 10:30pm – Chiron
10pm – 11pm – An Intimate Evening with the Vampire of History [NOTE: SEPARATE TICKET REQUIRED]
Was the Slavic Vampire real? And if so, who and what was he? Did he rise from the grave to drink Human blood? Was he immortal? Was he romantic? What is the “Dark Gift”? What is the reality behind the fabled Vampiric “Awakening”? Might he still prowl the Carpathian mountains today as surely as he continues to haunt our hearts and inflame our fantasies? In our presentation, “An Intimate Evening with the Vampire of History”, these questions and many more will be addressed and answered.
Panelist: Brent R. Myers
10:30pm – 11pm – Agents of Lust
Come see an extreme performance entertainment troupe including fire breathing and the operation of grinders On metal emitting excessive sparks! There’s good reason this is taking place outside… The Agents Of Lust always put on a show you won’t forget!
11pm – close – Black Friday after-party, with music from DJ Channel 83
Saturday
12pm – 1pm – At The Movies
Focuses on R-Rated independent and other R-Rated films. You will get a sneak peek at trailers for upcoming movies, the more blood and gore, the better! There may be giveaways, too!
Panelist: Len Berger
1pm – 3pm – Short films
1:30pm – 2:30pm – GTFO: What Have Horror Movies Taught Us
Check out other horror film fanatics as they break down the genre and explain the rules to survive if one ever finds themselves chased through the woods by a chainsaw-wielding maniac.
Panelists: Michael Flanders, Crystel Flanders, Jonathan Elliott
3pm – 4pm – They’re Chaaaaaaaanging…The Evolution of Cinematic Horror
While special effects are leaps and bounds better than they once were, many horror movie fanatics remain devoted to the classics. Join us for a look at the evolution of horror through the years, and a comparison between old school and new school styles of direction, cinematography, use of special effects, and horror devices.
Panelists: Jonathan Elliott, Megan G. Anderson, Kevin Kittle
3pm – 5pm – Feature: Animal Among Us
4:30pm – 5:30pm – Cine’blaq: A history of African Americans in Horror
Panelists: Dineta Williams-Trigg,
Special guests: Fred Williamson, Ken Foree
5pm – 7pm – Local Shorts
6pm – 7pm – Author Spotlight: An Evening with Craig W. Chenery
From Comicones and God Just Wanted to Play Golf, to his upcoming horror flick Dr. Saville’s Horror Show, Craig is a successful author, filmmaker and artist. This panel highlights his career, his many talents, and what’s next for the creative mind.
Panelist: Craig W. Chenery
Moderator: Jonathan Elliott
7pm – 9pm – Feature: She Never Died
7:30pm – 8:30pm – Awesomely Awful: Revenge of the 80’s
The Awesomelys, intrepid explorers of awesomely awful and awesomely bitchin’ ’80s and ’90s films and TV shows at Phoenix Comicon, tackle an “all ’80s horror, all the time” set for Phoenix Fearcon! We’ll have fun with our ’80s horror movie guilty pleasures: films we know aren’t the greatest but which we love anyway.
Panelists – Hal Astell, Michael Flanders, Jim Miller, Sarah Anne Stubbs
9:30pm – 10:30pm – Unipornicorn Theatre
Watch as a group of dirty-minded adults treat internet-found fan fiction erotica the same way your twelve year old self treated your first skin mag! Erotic readings! Erotic performances! And maybe, just maybe, an erotic dinosaur! All this and more can be found with Unipornicorn Theatre! (Disclaimer: We handle mature content in immature ways. Viewer discretion is recommended.)
10pm – 10:30 pm – Agents of Lust
Come see an extreme performance entertainment troupe including fire breathing and the operation of grinders On metal emitting excessive sparks! There’s good reason this is taking place outside… The Agents Of Lust always put on a show you won’t forget!
10:30pm – 11pm – The Spider Hole – CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS
A quartet with frequent guests, The Spider Hole performs songs meant to stir brains and rattle bones. Delivering an aural stew that is partly rock, partly cabaret, partly blues, and partly goth, influences include Tom Waits, Oingo Boingo, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Primus, The Pixies, Frank Zappa, The Doors, and your face when you taste something unexpected.
11pm – close – Aurelio Voltaire
A modern day renaissance man, Aurelio is a singer/performer, creator of comic books, animation and toys. As a musician, he is a songwriter whose music can best be described as a collection of murder ballads, tongue-in-cheek exercises in the macabre, with just enough bawdy songs about Star Trek and Star Wars to keep a Con audience rolling in the aisles. Many know him for his song “Brains!” from Cartoon Network show The Grim Adventures of Billy And Mandy. Voltaire’s live shows, whether solo or with his skeletal orchestra, are highly theatrical – full of stories and games. That’s not surprising, because Voltaire has been directing commercials and animating short films for the last twenty years.