The Miner loose in Chi-town

 Here's some Days of the Dead convention pics of me sporting my Harry Warden miner costume.


         Todd Farmer, writer/actor from My Bloody Valentine 3D, Drive Angry and Jason X

                                                               Girls love the miner...

                                                                     So do the kids!

           My friends Ben Harley from The Tim O' Harley Show and James in the Puppet scarecrow.

I'm Just A Big Kid

One aspect I love about horror conventions is just cutting loose and having fun. These pics pretty much sum it up.

New friends

A fan who badly desired a stabbing

 Darkside Paul as Bane trying to start something with me

Darkside Paul still upset he got owned by Harry Warden

Horrorhound/Mask-fest 2012

Horrorhound/Mask-fest weekend went by way too fast. This was our first year as vendors and it was amazing! We met many nice people and made new friends. Thank you to all who stopped by our table!  A big thanks goes out to Eric Austin, the HMA and all the staff for putting on Mask-fest. Can't wait for next year. The next blog entry will feature more pics from the show. Here are just a few.

 Our table

It was a bit off a challenge manning the booth while donning several costumes, but Ames did a wonderful job filling in. Here are my characters.

 Harry Warden and Ames


Bubba and JD Feigelson

We met Linda Hamilton. Super nice lady. She's got one of my Children of the Corn crosses!

Actor/stuntman Peter Kent who is Arnold Schwarzenegger's stunt double. Very cool guy. He shared some neat experiences from Re-Animator and T2.

Beware The 14th

Almost time...

to play. One more day until the haunted house opens. I'm making some slight adjustments to my Harry Warden costume. Doing some extra weathering in a few spots.

Harry Warden Are You Down There?

I'd love to photograph an old mine. Since I made my Harry Warden costume the desire has grown a lot to do just that. I hope to tour an old iron mine this summer a few hours north of here. Maybe, just maybe, I'll see Harry Warden there...

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Harry Warden Returns

My Bloody Valentine is one of my favorite slasher flicks. I enjoy movies where the killer could be anyone underneath the costume. I spent a good part of this year assembling the miner costume from the MBV 3D remake that was released earlier this year. Chris Carnel is the stuntman/actor who played the miner in the film. I absolutely loved his performance! I had the pleasure of meeting Chris at a convention last year and he is the most down to earth friendly guy.

Shortly after Halloween a friend and I drove to a county park with real caves, a perfect setting to photograph me as Harry Warden. Unfortunately most of the pictures did not turn out.
I've been wanting to go back to the caves and do a reshoot. This weekend, Ames and I set aside time but found out the park is closed for the year. Needless to say we had to find an alternate location. A week ago I discovered an old shut-down alcohol plant nearby. I spoke with the owner and was granted permission to take pictures there. We were not allowed inside the building as it was being rented, so we had to be creative outside. We talked our friend Julie into playing the "victim" in some shots. We had lots of fun and the shoot went very well. I wish we could have been there closer to dusk but we made the most of it. Here are a few of my favorite shots of the miner.

Pick

My buddy took a few pictures of me in my Halloween costume this year. I need to organize the rest of the pictures so until then here's one of my favorites.