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Season’s Screamings includes the “Hall of Yuletide Spirits,” “A Christmas Scarol,” “The Holiday Haunt with No Name…Yet,” “Gingerbread House of Horrors” and more.
Season’s Screamings highlights darker holiday themes he winter holidays can sometimes seem a bit too bright and cheery. Season’s Screamings — set for Friday, Dec. 17, to Sunday, Dec. 19, at the Pasadena Convention Center — tempers that with its event. Co-founded by David Markland of Black Cat Orange, Season’s Screamings highlights the talents of local scarers, who create haunts and yard displays for it. “There is this great community of Halloween fans and haunters,” Markland said. “We reached out to them and asked if they wanted to do something for it, and the response was good. They’re putting in all of this effort to create these amazing displays and haunts that will only be up for a weekend.” Markland, who also co-founded Midsummer Scream, has loved Halloween since he was a kid. He was inspired to host his own spooky events after writing about LA ghost stories and haunted attractions for the site CreepyLA. During the holiday event, haunts and yard displays will help to create an eerie feeling inside the “Hall of Yuletide Spirits.” “A Christmas Scarol” follows a hostly Dickens theme, naturally. “The Holiday Haunt with No Name…Yet” presents a haunted Celtic graveyard theme. Inside Fear Farm’s “Gingerbread House of Horrors,” the Christmas season takes a sinister turn with rotting candy and monsters. As part of “Reichland Asylum Presents: A Very Matthias Christmas,” longtime asylum
resident Matthias looks to bring Christmas to the children of Ward D and replace Santa. The Casa Calaveras haunt “Holiday Fiesta” gives a glimpse into a holiday celebration of undead couple Jose and Gloria. Autograph sessions are scheduled as well. Zach Galligan, who played Billy in “Gremlins,” and Butch Patrick, Eddie Munster in the TV show “The Munsters,” will meet with fans. The Friday night sees the “Poltergeists and Paramours Christmas Spooktacular,” which combines a fashion show, dance performances and live singing. Saturday, guests can hear from animatronics expert Garner Holt, who helped create Disneyland’s “The Nightmare Before Christmas”-themed Haunted Mansion Holiday overlay. That night, Peepshow Menagerie, an LA-based burlesque troupe, will put on an adultthemed show called “Island of Misfit Tease.” The convention also has horror trivia, a talk on Krampus, and a presentation on the Yule tradition of telling ghost stories. Inside the convention hall, around 200 vendors will sell holiday and horror-themed items, including props and décor, apparel and artwork. As part of a special Sunday talk, director Kirk Thatcher will give a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the TV special “Muppets Haunted Mansion.”
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By Laura Latzko Pasadena Weekly Contributing Writer
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