Oz Horror Con

Past Events...
Oz Horror Con '13

This was held at The Cellars, Donkey Wheel House on January 18th-20th, 2013. The atmospheric, dungeon-like venue was a big hit with everyone.

This was part of 'Steve Dillon's Fear Fest Weekend' which included a 'Meet and Greet' and evening events with guest stars PJ Soles (Halloween, Carrie, Stripes) and Shane Briant (Picture of Dorian Gray, Frankenstein & The Monster from Hell) as well as a screening of 'The Collector'.

Other guests included:

Aaron Sterns , Leslie Simpson, Jan Scherpenhuizen, Chris Sequeira, Mark Hartley, Kaaron Warren, Talie Helene, Lucy Sussex, Kirstyn McDermott, Mark Smith-Briggs, Stephen Dedman, Jason Nahrung, Brett McBean, Robert Datson, Robert Hamilton, Jason Franks, and Michael Pryor!

Oz Horror Con '12

This was held at The Royal Melbourne Hotel on 27th October, 2012
Originally planned as an 'insiders' meeting, it grew to reach 300 attendees, with 25 stall holders and panellists. Guest speakers included Leslie Simpson, Geoff Brown, Cameron Oliver, Mark Smith-Briggs, Paul Bedford and Jason Franks. The popular DVD Trivia Panel was hosted by Brenton Foale. The Paranormal Guide and the Australian Paranormal Society were running workshops near the haunted cells, and to add some atmosphere, caged and roaming zombies. (Photography and additional zombie guests by Gore Play)

NEWS:

Oz Midian is coming to Oz Horror Con! We are working with Director Russell Cherrington to bring The Cabal Cut of Nightbreed to the next Oz Horror Con event in August 2013... tickets available here.  (Go to the FaceBook page for up to the minute info)

About The Cabal Cut:

For years, rumours have been rife about substantial missing footage to Clive Barker's NIGHTBREED."Occupy Midian" is a movement to see the full version of this film restored and re-released in its full and unedited glory, which not only is a more faithful adaptation of his book CABAL, but is what Clive Barker originally intended NIGHTBREED to be. This version, running now at 144 minutes, is THE CABAL CUT. The Cabal Cut was directed by Russell Cherrington, Edited by Jimmi Johnson and Produced by Mark Miller (Seraphim)

Oz Horror Con (www.OzHorrorCon.com) is responsible for organising Australia's biggest (and best!) horror-themed fan conventions, and we are committed bringing the horror to Australia!! As a result of our passion and dedication to all things horror, we have negotiated with Russel Cherrington, the Director of 'The Cabal Cut' to bring the Director and the Cabal Cut to Melbourne, Australia!

Deets:

The money being pledged will contribute to the costs associated in bringing the movie and its Director to Australia, and the cost of the venue and screening facilities, and associated activities with Bringing Midian to Oz Horror Con!  Date is the 9th and 10th August. The location will be at the exclusive Backlot Studios in Melbourne

Nightbreed:

"Neither Heaven, nor Hell, nor Earth was possible. it could only be Midian then - that awful legendary place which gathered to itself in its monstrous embrace the half-dead, the Nightbreed..."

About Steve Dillon

• An ardent role-playing games fan (especially Call of Cthulhu, an RPG set in the worlds of HP Lovecraft), Steve became editor of Adventurer, a UK-produced role playing games magazine (http://www.mediafire.com/view/?wiynmizummi) 
• In 1987, Steve interviewed Clive Barker (Hellraiser, Nightbreed, Books of Blood, Midnight Meat Train, etc.) at the launch of Weaveworld in Liverpool, England
• The Clive Barker interview was never published, although fragments were published in Clive's book "Shadows In Eden" http://www.clivebarker.info/weavebarker.html). Steve promises one day to find the audio tape recording and photograph he took over 25 years ago...
• Steve also met Ramsey Campbell, one-time mentor of Clive Barker, at the Weaveworld launch
• Steve has also published short stories by Brian Lumley, top-selling British author of Necroscope and a host of other titles (www.brianlumley.com)
• Besides publishing several of Brian's short stories such as Haggopian, Recognition, Mylakhrion the Immortal, Steve published a bibliography, an illustrated Lumley poem "City out of time" and a graphic version of Lumley's "Return to Arkham"
• Steve was later invited to write one of the 'Concordances' for The Brian Lumley Companion (http://brianlumley.net/merchandise1.html)

Left: Steve is highly visible at Oz Horror Con events...

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