PopHorror Let's Get Scared
On the weekend of September 15-17, 2023, Marlborough, MA was besieged by genre lovers from all across New England, anxious to get their horror on for this year’s spooky season. Coming just a week after Ice Nine Kills’ Silver Scream Con in Danvers, MA (read our recap here), Altered Reality Entertainment’s Terror Con 2023 collected some of the most popular horror icons and brought them together in the Northeast.
Some of the amazing celebrity guest include A Nightmare on Elm Street’s Robert Englund and Heather Langenkamp, Halloween’s Danielle Harris, and horror icon Lance Henriksen, as well as The Walking Dead’s Chandler Riggs, Emily Kinney, Seth Gilliam, Ross Marquand, and Katelyn Nacon, Twin Peaks’ Ray Wise and Sherilyn Fenn, the two Danny’s… Danny Lloyd (The Shining 1980) and Courtland Mead (The Shining 1997), more ANOES alum like Amanda Wyss and Ronee Blakely, plus Mark Patton (Nightmare on Elm Street II), Nicholas Mele (A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child), and Lisa Wilcox (A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master), and Fright Night’s Chris Sarandon, William Ragsdale, Amanda Bearse, Stephen Geoffreys, and Jonathan Stark.
Plus, they had Eugene Clark (Land of the Dead), Sandy Johnson (Halloween 1978), the always wonderful Derek Mears (Friday the 13th 2009), Cabin Fever’s James DeBello and Cerina Vincent, Monica Keena (Freddy vs. Jason), Carl Toop (Aliens), Alaina Huffman (Supernatural), John Kassir (Tales From the Crypt), Edward Furlong (The Terminator II), wrestler Mick Foley, Sean Patrick Flannery (The Boondock Saints), artist Derek Riggs, Kevin Foster (Iron Man), Jess Weiss (Five Nights at Freddy’s), Marty Grabenstein (Courage the Cowardly Dog), Craig David Dowsett (Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey), Whit Hertford (Jurassic Park), and Ken Page (The Nightmare Before Christmas).
The cosplay and costumes from this year’s Costume Contest were off the charts! A few of my favorites…
The crowds at Terror Con were insane, but I will say that I liked the setup, with celebs and talent towards the back of the venue and vendors and food toward the front. It wasn’t too crowded or claustrophobic, and there was plenty of room for activities. Everything was set up in wide, neat rows that seemed to go on forever, with little nooks and crannies and hidden treasures scattered throughout.
I can’t close without mentioning the always amazing Terror Con After Party, a fantastic way to wrap up the weekend. This was PopHorror’s first year at Terror Con, but it certainly won’t be the last.
