176 - The Big Con

This week your friends Count Vardulon and DM recap their time at Fan Expo, Canada's premier convention. This year the duo had a table at the con, but that didn't stop them from seeking out and interviewing authors, filmmakers, and Alan Howarth. Tune in to hear about how The Count didn't get to see Tony Todd and stay to find our how much of a fangirl DM really is.

Visit these links to see what and who you missed because you didn't attend the con.

Interviewees:
Alan Draven - author
Scream All You Want - webseries
Michael Stevens - filmmaker
Alan Howarth - composer
David Oman - filmmaker
Jason Darrick - author
Alisee Lee Goldenberg - author

Cool stuff:
Andrew Barr - artist
Chibi Seimei - artisan
Carson Drew It - t-shirts
Horror in the Hammer - Hamilton-based horror society
Often Funny - webcomic
Fanboy Confessional - Space channel fandom series
Ottawa Horror - Ottawa-based horror society and film collective

Poll results: Why didn't you attend Festival of Fear?
I don't live in or near Toronto  50%
I was washing my hair  50%

37 - Snake Head School!

This week your friends Count Vardulon and the Divemistress argue about the exact nature of the Toronto Fan Expo--is it more sci-fi than horror, or more comic book than anything else--and The DM proves to be altogether too well informed about cosplaying. Having exhausted that line of geekiness, the two then move on to talk about unreasonably good British genre TV shows Dead Set, Jekyll, and Being Human. The DM's reviews of The Girl Next Door and Grotesque morph into a therapy session as she tries to work through feelings of disgusted unease brought on by watching too much torture porn.