Another stop has been to the Grossfest world tour as we visit the zombie mall in a couple weeks!

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Living Dead Museum

Monroeville Mall, Monroeville, PA 15146, United States

Celebrating George A. Romero’s DAWN OF THE DEAD and other zombie films inspired by the the Living Dead series.

This year, 2025 marks the 40th Anniversary of THE RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD. RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD is the alternate sequel to NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD that breathed new life into the “living dead” franchise in 1985. An of course the main timeline sequel from 1978 is DAWN OF THE DEAD, the film that made our very special shopping mall a place to celebrate these films and the current home to the Living Dead Museum.

We are assembling cast reunions, screenings and photo ops based on both of these films! RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD 1985 and, DAWN OF THE DEAD 1978.

Our venue is the home of DAWN OF THE DEAD, the world famous Monroeville Mall!

A fan convention like no other, the reunion of both the place the movies take place and all of the people who made them, from the lead actors to your favorite screen zombies, to the people behind the scenes that made it all happen, it’s all here in the form of a huge fan gathering and convention.

-Celebrity Appearances-Movie Location Tours-Exclusive Parties
-Film Screenings-Official Merchandise
-Collectibles and Art-Exhibits and Panels
-Photo Ops
-Zombie fun and more!

Tickets are available to be purchased in advance as follows.

3-DAY PASS $40 standard Admission for all 3 weekend days. ($50 after Early Bird expires on Oct 10th)

VIP PASS $150 extremely limited capacity, includes Celebrity Mixer Party, swag bag of merchandise, early admission, Includes line priority for photo ops, autographs, etc., and front row seating at events stage. ($200 after Early Bird expires on Oct 10th)

FRIDAY SINGLE DAY $20 ($25 after Early Bird expires)

SATURDAY SINGLE DAY $30 ($40 after Early Bird expires)

SUNDAY SINGLE DAY $20 ($25 after Early Bird expires)

Tickets are available at the door during our event hours but are subject to selling out in advance. All attendees are required to have an event ticket to take part in any of the events for that day. You must purchase a Daily Pass, Weekend Pass or VIP Pass to access the event as a whole, including any of the activities such as celebrities, tours, parties, movies, vendors, panels, etc..

Some activities require an extra purchase such as tours, film screenings, after hours events, autographs, photo ops, etc..

Children under 10 do not need a ticket and are free with paid adult admission to standard entry (VIP Party requires a VIP ticket for every person). Tours must be purchased for each person. Children must be accompanied by adult. Limit 2 children per adult ticket for general entry.

Living Dead Weekend: 2025 general schedule. (Photo Op schedule, panel schedule and film screening(s) will be posted soon).
FRIDAY Oct 24
NOON VIP Check-In
NOON – 8:00 Vendor Halls Open
2:00 General Admission Check-In
2:00 – 8:00 Celebrity Signings & Panel Stage Events
6:00 – 9:00 Film Location Mall Tour
9:00 – 11:00 Film Screening w/ Cast Intro (title and details to be announced very soon)

SATURDAY Oct 25
10:00 VIP and General Admission Check-In
10:00 – 7:00 Vendor Halls, Celebrity Signings, and Panel Stage Events
1:00 – 4:00 Film Location Mall Tour
9:00 – 11:00 VIP Mixer Meet & Greet

SUNDAY Oct 26
9:30 General Admission Check-In
10:00 – 1:00 Film Location Mall Tour
11:00 – 5:00 Vendor Halls, Celebrity Signings, and Panel Stage Events

More information and guest lists at our website below.
www.TheLivingDeadWeekend.com

Info to apply to be a vendor:
https://www.thelivingdeadweekend.com/monroeville-vendors/ 

GETTING TO KNOW YOUR GROSSFEST 2025 GUEST!

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Well fans we have another guest announcement and yinz can thank us at the show for this one. This person had busted out onto the Indy scene in 2018 with acting in a few short films but got their big break with the feature ‘The Curse of Lilith Ratchet’. Ever since then this person hasn’t looked back on becoming one of the hardest working actors in the Indy scene. Their talent, charm, and work ethic make them hard to miss on screen as their presence on film has made them one the hottest upcoming actors to have in an Indy project. You may know them from such titles: Debbie Does Demons, XXX-mas, Waspzilla, Killer Campout Part II, Crackcoon, Blood and Breakfast, with a host of other upcoming projects! But wait there is more as this wonderfully talented person is about to add writer/director to their list of credits with their own project ‘Martian Girl Massacre’ segment that will be a part of the ‘Amityville Aliens’ project (so of course massacre and Amityville made the Gross brothers ears perk up). We are proud to announce someone we know yinz are all gonna love having at Grossfest 2025… we like to introduce yinz to Morrigan Thompson-Milam! We enjoy this young lady’s passion and drive to conqueror the Indy genre in 2025 so please go check out her work sooner than later:

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9454937/…

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

August 1st, Friday 4-10pm

August 2nd, Saturday 11-7pm

(Movies and/or panels will be announced closer to the show)

For show info: http://www.grossfest.com or go to our Grossfest Facebook group or event page.

Vendor tables are $100 each and come with two passes contact grossfest@gmail.com for vendor application and how to pay.

Getting to know your Grossfest 2025 guest!

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So for our next guest announcement this writer, director, actor needs no introduction at all but we are going to give this awesome person one anyway! They are no stranger to Grossfest as they are quickly becoming famous for their wonderful film work that has spanned nearly twenty years, they have been our friend for quite a long time, helps other filmmakers and actors locally along the way, has introduced a lot of Indy fans to other cool young filmmakers and actors, but you would undeniable know and enjoy them for their electric personality. This award winning filmmaker is known for movies such as: Everyone Must Die, Captain Z and The Terror of Leviathan, The Meowy series, Amityville Christmas Vacation, but what has gotten all the Indy folk in a crazy frenzy are the absolutely fun trilogy of Caroushell movies! It wouldn’t be Grossfest without him… the one… the only… cannot be duplicated only imitated… STEVE F’N RUDZINSKI! We have considered Steve a great friend and filmmaker for a long time now. He makes us proud as we have known him since he was a teenager and to watch how much he has grown into such a dedicated person of his craft makes us proud. Do yourself a favor and go check out some of his work before Grossfest 2025:  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2324123/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_1_nm_7_in_0_q_Steve%2520Rudzin

(Not gonna lie one of my favorite pics of all time)

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

August 1st, Friday 4-10pm

August 2nd, Saturday 11-7pm

(Movies and/or panels will be announced closer to the show)

For show info: http://www.grossfest.com or go to our Grossfest Facebook group or event page.

Vendor tables are $100 each and come with two passes contact grossfest@gmail.com for vendor application and how to pay.

Gross Movie Reviews #661

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Jurassic Exorcist (DVD) – In this Mark Polonia film a cult leader combines his evil with a dinosaur allowing it to eat everything in its devilish path after his death. Meanwhile a priest that has lost his faith in god is introduced to time travel as this allows him to go back a million years or so to exorcise this beast before it ever gets to present day! This wacked out plot taking place in a small town makes for a hilarious experience for viewers as I give the film 2 ½ out of 4 stars.

Grandma (Fawesome) – Twenty years ago Grandma’s Bed and Breakfast was a wonderful place to eat breakfast for the small town folk until it was revealed she been using humans for meat. People were disappearing from time to time but no one thought anything of it until that tragic day her place was investigated. Soon Grandma disappeared and part of the restaurant was torn down. Now in present day a young woman named Mallory inherits money from her dying father and she wanted to honor his memory by buying the place they both had fond memories of, “Grandma’s Bed and Breakfast”. The goal is for Mallory and a couple friends to clean the place up for business again. But clearly Grandma has returned and not too happy to share her place as she lures them one by one to their deaths. It is a crude but fun SOV shocker that captures that early 90s Indy vibe as I give it 3 out of 4 stars.

George A. Romero’s Resident Evil (In Demand) – The purpose of this film is to look into why Romero’s vision of the popular video game never got made. In order to do that this film works twofold: tell the story of George A. Romero from the beginning but also the story of how Resident Evil became the horror game that changed so much in video games. This documentary dives head deep into the process of the game becoming a movie and compares the vision of Romero to Paul Anderson’s script. I quite enjoyed they brought up several times how people who are fans of the games dreaded the movie that came out (this officially ends me bitching about this series of films being an abomination on cinema) and reasons why we got what we got. The film runs a little long but I found it entertaining and very informative as it left I with only one question now… Should someone (cough, cough, Tom Savini or Greg Nicotero) go ahead and make the version of the script Romero wrote so long ago? I give this entertaining look into something I have yelled about constantly for years 3 ½ out of 4 stars.

Teddiscare (Tubi) – Another hilarious project from Mark Polonia and stars Tim Hatch with some really cool opening credits for the film. A young man Duncan receives a phone call that his father is dying as he has just returned from an asylum adjusting to life outside again. His father’s dying words are “don’t return to the woods of your childhood”. Of course Duncan cannot resist investigating the woods and quickly finds his stuffed animal collection from his childhood like they had been waiting there the whole time for him. Meanwhile a partner of Duncan’s father at the Filbert Plant is overlooking how the estate is given out and wants to screw over Duncan but Duncan would like him to meet his friend Teddy? Maybe one of the more weird projects from Polonia Brothers Entertainment in the past decade with a fun performance from Tim Hatch as I give the project 2 ½ out of 4 stars.

Torture the Flesh (Blu-ray) – For the past year a serial killer has made a name for himself killing all over town causing the lead detective grasping for answers. Detective Frank is an over the hill cop who is a smidge away from retirement but believes he may have gotten the break he needs with a recent mother-to-be/wife and young kid being murdered by the serial killer. In comes the widow Daniel who wants answers from the frustrated detectives as he has plans to get his revenge. As the killer eludes capture the story keeps coming back to Daniel and Detective Frank until the very end. As each new murder happens they get even more grisly than the murder before in this low budget Indy feature with a nice large budget gloss as I give it 2 ½ out of 4 stars.

Witch Story (DVD) – A late 80s Eye-talian flick that starts in 1932 Florida where a witch is burned to death while her kid watches. Of course the witch curses everyone there and their offspring which brings us 57 years later where a pair of siblings (brother and sister) inherits the house the witch owned. Ed and Carol see this as an opportunity for them and friends to fix the place up but immediately when they arrive the evil is awakened to kill all who have entered the home. We get a cursed house, a story that doesn’t quite make a lick of sense, one demonic blowjob, kissing cousins, a creepy priest/I am not a priest, and an ending that has you asking why the witch just wanted to hold her child in purgatory just to lure victims to the house? Point is its weird as I give the film 2 stars.

Leech (YouTube) – Here is another Indy project from David Dawson out of the state of Illinois that gave me a very pandemic vibe of making this film. Anyway we are introduce to Darklord of Loves Park who pretty much live streams everything he does: listening to music, making so-called music, eating a rat, going to the bar, asking for funds, etc. Mostly the Darklord seems to enjoy bickering with the group of people who do follow his streams until “Content Corner Mike” appears. Content Corner Mike begins uses his stream to try to get more subscribers to the Darklord because he believes the Darklord isn’t faking it and an interesting watch that’s different from most streams. But this decision leads to an unwanted feud and eventual violence in a very curious but realistic way that easily can be seen happening in real life. This no budget film can feel very rough around the edges but pay attention to the heart of this film because I think this had a great concept as I give it 2 ½ out of 4 stars.

Teddy Told Me To (Tubi) – A film that is directed by Tom Devlin who is known more for his special make-up effects than directing has been dipping his toes into the genre of being a director. The plot of this flick takes place at a closed haunted attraction that a cute couple: Zoe and Danny buy up to reopen. It was originally closed because a young man wearing a bear mask lost his shit inside the attraction and killed people. Now reopening the man with the bear mask has returned to slaughter the haunters and all who enter. Not a huge fan of the ending but a lot of bodies pile up in this simple slasher that it keeps it bloody entertaining as I give it 2 stars.

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FROM DUSK TILL CON To Launch “The FDTC Network”, April 4th, 2014

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From Dusk till Con

 

March, 21st, 2014

FROM DUSK TILL CON To Launch “The FDTC Network”, April 4th, 2014

 

After a hiatus of over a year, FROM DUSK TILL CON is announcing its relaunch and return to the world of “cons, creeps, and culture.”

 

Originally launched in October of 2009, FROM DUSK TILL CON quickly grew into one of the largest internet communities for all things horror and convention related, in the process becoming one of the most important hubs of information the subculture has ever seen. The original site featured film and convention reviews, news, celebrity interviews, spotlights on independent films, and hard hitting opinion editorials which helped shaped the climate of the horror convention scene over the past five years.

 

In late 2012, FROM DUSK TILL CON was thought to be put on a temporary hiatus as its founders, Adolfo G. Dorta and Rick Lara, decided to focus their attention on the every growing DAYS OF THE DEAD convention – the critically acclaimed event, which they co-founded with Re-Evolution Management head, Bill Philputt, presently occurs yearly in four cities nationwide and is considered one of the best in the country. But it appears such thoughts were wrong…

 

“This relaunch has been in the works for quite some time,” states co-founder, Adolfo G. Dorta. “Many folks may have thought FDTC was over, but we’ve been playing with new technology throughout much of our down period, working towards a major revamp to once again make FDTC the definitive site for all things con, creeps, and culture. As many already know, Mike Exler and Drew Seidler (of East Coast Horror Group) have been operating FROM DUSK TILL CON Radio for almost two years, and that has secretly been at the core of what would become the FROM DUSK TILL CON Network.”

 

The relaunch will be a stark contrast from the previous incarnation of FDTC. Rather than being a strictly written article site, The FROM DUSK TILL CON Network will be a full on multimedia experience and will include internet radio, video programming, and even independent films on demand (courtesy of JABB Pictures). Set to launch on APRIL 4th, 2014, the network will debut with 8 hours of streaming content daily. Over a dozen unique weekly shows are planned for the debut, with nearly 20 of the scene’s most notable names joining together to provide content. Within two months of being unleashed on the world, The FDTC Network aims to run a full 24 hours a day, expanding to over 28 shows.

 

“The FDTC Network will once again change the game in the same way FDTC did back when it originally launched and will undoubtedly set the bar for how media coverage of our culture is viewed. We’re excited to be creating a new standard.”

 

The FROM DUSK TILL CON Network will launch Friday, April 4th, at http://www.FromDusktillCon.com