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Tickets: $10 at the door for one day, $15 for both days for those who will be attending
Vendor room hours:
Friday 4-10pm
Saturday 11-7pm
Hotel rates go up after the first week of July and remember the hotel sold out last year! Remember if you have any trouble getting the Grossfest rate contact us so we can help.
For those who may have not heard we have another special guest coming to Grossfest making their first Pittsburgh convention appearance! This person is a writer, director, and actor whose career has spanned at least four decades now. This talented person has been known to act in such Indy films: Psycho Vampire, Hung Jury, Psycho Sisters, and Easter Bunny Bloodbath 2: No More Tears, but also directed films like: An Ex-Hooker’s Christmas Carol, Deep Undead, and The Blue Hole which they are putting the finishing touches on as we speak. But this person might be known to Indy fans most for being the founder of Sharkey Video and his talented underwater camera work of the feature Deep Undead that just got a wonderful rerelease recently we are delighted to introduce all of yinz to Dave Castiglione!
“Side Effects May Vary” will inject Pittsburgh, PA with a one-night only special event screening at the historic Harris Theater on Saturday, January 27th at 7:30PM!
Special appearance by star Floyd Ewing Jr. (“Skinned Alive”), who will join director J.R. Bookwalter (“The Dead Next Door,” “Ozone”) and writer/star James L. Edwards (“Her Name Was Christa,” “Bloodletting”) for a post-show Q&A hosted by Art Ettinger, editor of Ultra Violent magazine.
With the world gripped by a deadly pandemic, science denier Glenn Rollins turns to an experimental vaccine as treatment for a lingering sickness. Much to the surprise of his doctor, wife, and friends, the remedy immediately fixes what ails him. But Glenn will soon discover the only thing more fatal than the virus… is the cure.
Attendees receive a free collectible promotional giveaway surgical mask featuring full-color artwork from the movie’s poster. Presented with state-of-the-art digital projection and 5.1 surround sound in a landmark venue opened in 1931!
This unrated movie contains good stuff like nudity, language, sex, and graphic violence equivalent to a hard MPAA “R” rating! 17+ only, please.
For our next guest announcement is a person who has accomplished a lot in a short span of time: model, make-up artist, director, producer, writer, and influencer. This person has worn many hats and seems to be someone that the Grossfest crowd will just be delighted to meet! This person’s credits include acting credits in: Clown Motel 2, Sorority babes, Attack of the Corn Zombies, along with several more to be released within the next year. Yinz please give a warm welcome to this wonderful and beautiful newcomer who has already made an impact in the independent filmmaking world, Kelsey Livengood.
So for our latest guest announcement is someone who is on the rise big time in the independent horror community. They have been killing it as they have acted in over 40 films since 2017 and show no sign of slowing down. This guest of ours has acted in such films: Cannibal Hookers, The Embalmers, Bigfoot Exorcist, Satan Lives: The Rise of the Illuminati Hotties, Debbie Does Demons, Murdercise (with Drew Marvick), CarousHell 3, and has several more that are gonna be released over the next year or so like Crackcoon and The Legend of Crick Foot! Best way to describe this person is “she is a talented and delightful ball of joyous energy on and off screen”, may we introduce yinz to Jessa Flux!
Before we get to our next announcement there is some important news and sad to say The Mummy and The Monkey cannot attend Grossfest 2024. Because of their rising national and international success as horror host and hostess they are in high demand. As Janet said to us, “The Cleveland motto is maybe next year”, her words not ours, lol. Anyway all is good as we plan to bring this talented duo Janet and James (The Mummy and The Monkey) in for 2025 Grossfest! In all seriousness, we all know life tends to throw us curve balls and that is no different with horror conventions but don’t worry Grossfest fans we are in constant contact with this wonderful duo and plan to have them at one of our shows. So in the meantime please keep supporting these fine folks as we will! Thank you Janet and James see yinz next year.
For our latest announcement we super proud and excited to bring in a tattoo artist for Grossfest who will have their own room to work in to do tattoos for Grossfest attendees. (More details on pricing and other such things will be posted closer to the convention). This person is one of the most talented artists I have ever had the pleasure of meeting, consider them a great personal friend, and a very inventive make-up effects person on Indy films when they are not tattooing. With great excitement and pleasure let me introduce yinz all to the ultra-talented and super horror movie fan Angel O’Connor! She works at the Empire Tattoo Shop off of Meyran Ave in the Oakland area of Pittsburgh. Stop by the shop make an appointment, meet the other cool people who work there, see the artwork… Here are a couple of things Angel has done (which these pics do not do her justice of how talented she is)
Check out her instagram Shop – @empiretattoopittsburgh Angel – @thunder_scorpiontattoos
Vendor Hours: Friday 4:00 PM to 10:00 PM Saturday 11:00 AM to 7:00 PM
Same place, same set up, two days long this time!(Remember let’s keep this simple and fun)
Well we have a very special guest that it wouldn’t feel like Grossfest unless we have this super talented individual… This person has won a Fango Chainsaw award, the Grossfest Lifetime Achievement Award, and most recently best Pittsburgh filmmaker award! This person has found a way for people to go ape shit over cat movies, make an Amityville holiday movie worth watching, and a trilogy about a freakin amusement park object that comes to life! He deserves the awards and we should enjoy the fact he is still here in the Pittsburgh area to hang with us common folk making his latest project because I can easily see a talent like him going to Hollywood and no longer being independent as we at Grossfest are proud to have once again Steve Rudzinski!
We are always on the lookout for new established independent filmmakers to bring into Grossfest. This person has acted many times in different Indy projects over the past decade but their true talent is directing and making the world stand up and pay attention to what they have filmed. This person in my opinion has figured out how not just to have their finger on the pulse of society but also walks up to the line of good taste without crossing it but mocking it a bit as they use their talent to make you laugh? The projects include: Fangboner, Gay for Pray: The Erotic Adventures of Jesus Christ, and Amityville Vibrator we at Grossfest are proud to introduce you to Nathan Rumler.
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