Sorry folks for those who do read my reviews but with the recent untimely death of my great friend and filmmaker Maddie Deering on June 13th I went offline for some time to take care of some things. I promise you the reviews and news will start back up again. Maddie you will be missed my dear friend.
This person is a name in independent film that spans over five decades! Literally he and his brother are the godfathers of SOV. This next guest is someone I literally wrote down first next to Jon McBride’s name of people we would like to bring in as guests in 2018 for Grossfest! Never thought his would happen as this person has directed over 90 films: Splatter Farm, Feeders, Razorteeth, House Squatch, Amityville in Space, too many to list… This person is literally the man, the myth, the legend of independent cinema and it gave me great delight to announce his name last week during Grossfest to say he will be joining us for Grossfest 2025. Let me introduce yinz to the one the only Mark Polonia!
Go check out Mark’s work: [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0689789/…]
Grossfest August 1st & 2nd, 2025
Location:
Comfort Inn Conference Center
699 Rodi Road, Pittsburgh, PA, 15235
To book a hotel room for Grossfest 2025 you can use this link: [https://www.choicehotels.com/reservations/groups/YB53X6]
and
you can contact Grossfest at grossfest@gmail.com if interested in being a vendor.
Grossfest 2024 (August 2nd&3rd)
This is it!!! Now we got great guests, we have unbelievably talented and cool vendors, all we need now is you, your relatives, your friends, neighbors that you don’t talk too, etc., to come through the door and support Independent horror everything!
Again folks, let’s keep it simple, let’s have fun, let’s support each other, and make Grossfest continue year after year. And beforehand thank yinz for coming! (And yes, we do have another random gift bag giveaway for one lucky person on Friday and Saturday coming through the door.)
Comfort Inn Conference Center
699 Rodi Road, Pittsburgh, PA, 15235
(The Grossfest convention is on the bottom floor of the hotel. If needed you will be directed by the front desk and also if you come in that way there is steps off to the right down the hallway that will lead yinz to us! Otherwise there is a door out back that leads directly to Grossfest also.)
Need to reserve a room call (412) 244-1600
Tickets: $10 at the door for one day or $15 to hang on both days (no matter what you must pay admission at the door to get into Grossfest 2024 and to also get a tattoo from the great Angel O’Connor. No the tattoos are not free, Angel sets her prices, no one under 18 will get a tattoo, she will be doing small ones 30 to 60 minutes on average) NO EXCEPTIONS!
Vendor, movie, and tattoo room hours:
August 2nd, Friday 4-10pm
August 3rd, Saturday 11-7pm
Grossfest 2024 guests
Sean Donohue and Sushii Xhyvette Holder
Roni Jonah and Jason Crowe
Kelsey Livengood
Matt Cannon… also appearing with Matt is Victor Butler who was the detective in Hexercise.
Jorge Delarosa
Nathan Rumler
Rebecca Rinehart
Also Special guests
Dave Castiglione
Steve Rudzinski
Jennifer Nangle
Also let’s not forget ultra-talented, super horror movie fan, tattoo artist Angel O’Connor who will be doing tattoos at Grossfest both days!
The talented Vendor list:
Neko Shark Films
Minerva Trinkets
Neens Soaps
Kiss of Death Productions
Scream Team Releasing
Addison Binek – Psycho Ape
Horror Movie Heaven
Barry the Movie Demon
Cluck Cluck Productions
Celebration of Spirits
13 Occult
Studio Arata
Video Nasty Productions
The Odd End
MMH Productions
Ultra Violent Magazine
Nostalgic Nightmare Productions
Once Upon a Killer
Mike Ancas
Fairly Dark Productions
BPO Films
Burgh Brats Krafty Kreations
Melissa Spezia
Josh Graves – Late Checkout
Drunken Yinzers Productions
Dazed and Disorderly
Vicious Creations
Cindy’s Creative Chaos
Fast Custom Shirts
Grossfest 2024 vendor list:
Neko Shark Films
Minerva Trinkets
Neens Soaps
Scream Team Releasing
Addison Binek – Psycho Ape
Horror Movie Heaven
Barry the Movie Demon
Cluck Cluck Productions
Celebration of Spirits
13 Occult
Studio Arata
Video Nasty Productions
The Odd End
MMH Productions
Ultra Violent Magazine
Nostalgic Nightmare Productions
Once Upon a Killer
Mike Ancas
Fairly Dark Productions
BPO Films
Burgh Brats Krafty Kreations
Melissa Spezia
Josh Graves – Late Checkout
Drunken Yinzers Productions
Dazed and Disorderly
Vicious Creations
Cindys Creative Chaos
Friday and Saturday August 2 and 3rd, 2024
Comfort Inn Conference Center
699 Rodi Road, Pittsburgh, PA, 15235
Need to reserve a room: Hotel link to reserve a room for Grossfest 2024! https://www.choicehotels.com/reservations/groups/ET81E2
Tickets: $10 at the door for one day, $15 for both days for those who will be attending
Vendor and movie room hours:
Friday 4-10pm
Saturday 11-7pm
Grossfest 2024 guests
Sean Donohue
Sushii Xhyvette Holder
Jessa Flux
Kelsey Livengood
Matt Cannon… also appearing with Matt is Victor Butler who was the detective in Hexercise.
Jorge Delarosa
Nathan Rumler
Rebecca Rinehart
Special guests
Dave Castiglione
Steve Rudzinski
Jennifer Nangle
Also let’s not forget ultra-talented, super horror movie fan, tattoo artist Angel O’Connor who will be doing tattoos at Grossfest both days!
So Grossfest fans, vendors, and guests… I believe we have accomplished our mission! We are BACK! First, let me thank the Comfort INN there in Penn Hills for allowing me to be me and trying to give what I thought people would enjoy. Second, I got to thank Famous actor Tom Gross for allowing me to do my thing (being insane, maybe?) but also making things happen behind the scenes. Third and maybe the most importantly I gotta thank the great guests we had, the vendors, and people who paid ten bucks to get in. Without yinz n’at this wouldn’t be possible. So thank everyone: the hotel, the vendors, the guests, the people who bought tickets, and the couple people who heard my deep thoughts on the state of conventions this past weekend… This wasn’t the beginning of the end for Grossfest, this was a new beginning, a new chapter as we jumped a huge hurdle here and now we venture into preparing for an August two-day show in 2024. So stick around, give us some time to get some details figured out as we move forward and remember Grossfest is proof “just because someone tells you can’t do it, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try to do it”. Again all of yinz n’at for your time and support and see yinz in 2024!
GROSSFEST 2023
Saturday, August 5th, JUST $10 AT THE DOOR for movies, vendors, guests, and just hanging with some very cool talented people!
Comfort Inn Conference Center Pittsburgh East
699 Rodi Rd., Pittsburgh, Pa. 15235
412-244-1600
or www.comfortinnpittsburgh.com
Need reservations? https://www.choicehotels.com/reservations/groups/TP87S2
One day event with guests, movies, filmmakers, vendors from 11am to 7pm. (Guests as always subject to change)
All we ask of yinz is your support and come and have fun! You want this to keep happening help support our little growing event. So let’s keep it simple and enjoy that Grossfest is back and with your support this is a new beginning for our Independent Horror Convention… again! See yinz there!
Grossfest returns in a big way Saturday, August 5, 2023!!! We are going to party like Grossfest 2018 because unlike other conventions we are sticking with “PRE-COVID” PRICES!
$10 ticket to get in for movies, vendors, and just hanging with some very cool talented people
Start making plans…
Comfort Inn Conference Center Pittsburgh East
699 Rodi Rd., Pittsburgh, Pa. 15235
412-244-1600
or www.comfortinnpittsburgh.com
Need reservations? https://www.choicehotels.com/reservations/groups/TP87S2
One day event with guests, movies, filmmakers, vendors from 11am to 7pm. (Guests as always subject to change)
All we ask of yinz, is your support! You want this to keep happening you have to get your asses there and plus to answer any questions of it: Yes, a two-day event is already in the plans for August 2024! (We need to take the first big step back) So let’s keep it simple and enjoy Grossfest is back and with your support this is a new beginning for our Independent Horror Convention… again!
See yinz there!
Movies that will play that day (times will be posted in the next few weeks along with the Grossfest Lifetime Achievement Award being given away once again, and yes we know who we are giving it to already)
Grossfest guests:
Drew Marvick
Madeline Deering
Jim Roberts
James L. Edwards
Steve Rudzinski
Adam Clevenger
The Mummy and the Monkey
Movies:
Hexercise
Then My Mind Walked Away
Shingles The Movie
Bathtub Shark Attack
Doomsday Stories
Night of the Axe
Check our Grossfest group page or www.grossfest.com for list of vendors. Plus any questions or comments please send to grossfest@gmail.com
Vendors:
Cluck, Cluck Productions
Glyphs & Glam
Dazed and Disorderly
Barry the Movie Demon
Wolf Hollow LLC
MMH Productions
Pgh Scrubs Guy
Minerva’s Trinkets
Nostalgic Nightmare Productions
Face Melt Productions
Broaden Torture Productions
Drunken Yinzers Productions
Video Nasty Productions
13 Occult
Shoggoth Suds
Midnight Magazine
Independent American Pictures
Addison Binek
Lou Ickes
48 Hour Film Project
Kiss of Death Productions
Cindy’s Creature Chaos
The Cinema Psychos Show
The Artwork of Travis Trium Perfectum
1331 Studios
Neens Soaps
Such Babz Customs
Sydneys Scrunchies
Spirit of Halloween
Magical Resin Shop
One week away… Early weather forecast (High 63, in the morning 48 with sun and a slight chance of showers in afternoon). Dress accordingly my friends!
We wanna thank the Willow Station Restaurant and Bar in Castle Shannon, Pa. for helping us to have our first outdoor event. Second, we wanna thank all the vendors that are going to be a part of the event. Third and most important “The EVENT IS FREE” to attendees, the public, whatever you wanna call the people from around the Pittsburgh and surrounding areas that are coming to check out all the great vendors, filmmakers, authors, artists, etc., that will be there. So let your mum, your dad, yinz lovers, your partner, your neighbors’ n’at, even the people you dislike know to come visit our event. All we at Grossfest are kindly asking is for people to head into the Willow Station Restaurant at some point because hell you are already there to see all of us so go have a drink or better yet have brunch as it starts at 11am! Point is people it’s been a hard two years for all of us. This is another step in making a bigger Grossfest happen again but also we want you to have more money in your pocket to spend on the vendors, filmmakers, etc… again THE EVENT IS FREE TO GET IN! Plus the whole point of Grossfest is to introduce you to independent filmmakers, authors, artists and to have fun doing it like “conventions used to be!”
So again May 1st, 10am-3pm in the back parking lot of Willow Station Bar/Restaurant. There will be parking out in front along the street (most of the public parking side lot will be taken up by vendors)
Willow Station
3841 Willow Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15234
Willow Station will be open for that day 11am – 4pm.
https://www.thewillowstation.com/ or www.facebook.com/3841WillowStation
Any questions email Tom or Tim Gross or email grossfest@gmail.com about the event.
(Note: For anyone that buys a “beer or adult beverage” please hang on the patio with us until finished)
NOW FOR OUR LIST OF VENDORS
Maddie Deering – NekroShark Films (rumors that Spirit Animal star Tom Gross will be there to sign autographs with the talented filmmaker Maddie)
Melanie Stone – Dark White Arts
Lunija Gjoni – Plastinated Heart Art
Jess Weary – Celebrations of Spirits
David Milchick – Shoggoth Suds
Kayleigh Crawford and Dan Komarek – Video Nasty Productions
House of Horror
Scott Baucan
Christian Bareford – local film festival (filmmakers you may want to talk to these people?)
Minerva’s Trinkets
Angel O’Connor and Steve McBride – artist, tattoo artist, make-up effects expert, and all around cool persons
Brillobox – Luther Ickes – filmmaker (made a Pittsburgh Bigfoot movie), bar owner of a cool hot spot that just reopened
Darcy and Keith Munden – Legacy Verse Productions
David Fairhead – Fairly Dark Productions
Daniel Boyd and Tim Gross – Drunken Yinzers Productions
And of course the guests: the people, the myth, the legends, the Grossfest lifetime achievement award winners, the most talented Pittsburgh independent film duo you can meet David and Diana Silvio of Kiss of Death Productions!
So hope to see yinz at the Willow Stations n’at on Sunday May 1st, so come on dahn to visit n’at!
See yinz in two weeks on May 1st, 10am-3pm in the back parking lot of Willow Station Bar/Restaurant. There will be parking out in front along the street (most of the public parking side lot will be taken up by vendors)
Willow Station
3841 Willow Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15234
Willow Station will be open for that day 11am – 4pm.
https://www.thewillowstation.com/ or Willow Station
Any questions email Tom or Tim Gross or email grossfest@gmail.com about the event.
NOW FOR OUR LIST OF VENDORS
Maddie Deering – NekroShark Films (rumors that Spirit Animal star Tom Gross will be there to sign autographs with the talented filmmaker Maddie)
Melanie Stone – Dark White Arts
Lunija Gjoni – Plastinated Heart Art
Jess Weary – Celebrations of Spirits
David Milchick – Shoggoth Suds
Kayleigh Crawford and Dan Komarek – Video Nasty Productions
House of Horror
Scott Baucan
Christian Bareford – local film festival (filmmakers you may want to talk to these people?)
Minerva’s Trinkets
Angel O’Connor and Steve McBride – artist, tattoo artist, make-up effects expert, and all around cool persons
Brillobox – Luther Ickes – filmmaker (made a Pittsburgh Bigfoot movie), bar owner of a cool hot spot that just reopened
Darcy and Keith Munden – Legacy Verse Productions
David Fairhead – Fairly Dark Productions
Daniel Boyd and Tim Gross – Drunken Yinzers Productions
And of course the guests: the people, the myth, the legends, the Grossfest lifetime achievement award winners, the most talented Pittsburgh independent film duo you can meet David and Diana Silvio of Kiss of Death Productions!
So hope to see yinz n’at on Sunday May 1st, so come on dahn to visit! (Also wanted to thank a few people recently helping to get the word out: Nathan William, Mr. DK, Kay Crawford, Bootleg Jen Gross, Maddie Deering and of course the staff at Willow Station.
First, I wanna thank the Willow Station Restaurant and Bar in Castle Shannon, Pa. for helping to have our first outdoor event and we have sold out. Second, wanna thank all the vendors that are going to be a part of the event. (There will be a list of vendors posted soon.) Sorry we had to turn a few away but like we said from the beginning it was limited space, first come, first served. Third and most important because I have already fielded a couple questions from a couple people concerning about this? The EVENT IS FREE to attendees, the public, whatever you wanna call the people from around the Pittsburgh area coming to check out all the great vendors that will be there. So let your mum, your dad, your lovers, your partner, your neighbors, even the people you dislike know to come visit our event. All we at Grossfest are kindly asking is for people to head into the Willow Station at some point because hell you are already there to see all of us to go have a drink or have brunch as it starts at 11am! Point is people it’s been a hard two years for all of us. This is another step in making a bigger Grossfest happen again but also we want you to have more money in your pocket to spend on the vendors… again THE EVENT IS FREE TO GET IN! Plus the whole point of Grossfest is to introduce you to independent filmmakers, authors, artists and to have fun doing it like conventions used to be!
So again May 1st, 10am-3pm in the back parking lot of Willow Station Bar/Restaurant. There will be parking out in front along the street (most of the public parking side lot will be taken up by vendors)
Willow Station
3841 Willow Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15234
Willow Station will be open for that day 11am – 4pm.
https://www.thewillowstation.com/ or www.facebook.com/3841WillowStation
Any questions email Tom or Tim Gross or email grossfest@gmail.com about the event.
NOW FOR OUR LIST OF VENDORS
Maddie Deering – NekroShark Films (rumors that Spirit Animal star Tom Gross will be there to sign autographs with the talented filmmaker Maddie)
Melanie Stone – Dark White Arts
Lunija Gjoni – Plastinated Heart Art
Jess Weary – Celebrations of Spirits
David Milchick – Shoggoth Suds
Kayleigh Crawford and Dan Komarek – Video Nasty Productions
House of Horror
Scott Baucan
Christian Bareford – local film festival (filmmakers you may want to talk to these people?)
Minerva’s Trinkets
Angel O’Connor and Steve McBride – artist, tattoo artist, make-up effects expert, and all around cool persons
Brillobox – Luther Ickes – filmmaker (made a Pittsburgh Bigfoot movie), bar owner of a cool hot spot that just reopened
Darcy and Keith Munden – Legacy Verse Productions
David Fairhead – Fairly Dark Productions
Daniel Boyd and Tim Gross – Drunken Yinzers Productions
And of course the guests: the people, the myth, the legends, the Grossfest lifetime achievement award winners, the most talented Pittsburgh independent film duo you can meet David and Diana Silvio of Kiss of Death Productions!
So hope to see yinz n’at on Sunday May 1st, so come on dahn to visit!
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